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At the end of the day, most of the audience just knows 'that's a keyboard', and 'that's a guitar', so if something gets played on the wrong patch for a few minutes while I have to re-boot, it's not the end of the world, and we can avoid heavy synth numbers until I'm back up and running. My solution: I just gig with a Mojo61 too, so if something were to ever fail, I can play it on organ/rhodes and make do. I love MainStage, and have learned to accept this behavior, as I find it vastly preferable to not-preloading, though I wouldn't mind if they made an option to turn it off or allow selection to satisfy other people's needs. While others (Camelot) don't pre-load at all, which is a dealbreaker for me. Some programs like Gig Performer allow you to select which patches get pre-loaded. For me, it's the vastly preferred behavior, and I can't think of a situation where I wouldn't want it on. It's one of the best and worst things about the program. ALL patches are pre-loaded into RAM/VRAM (OSX offloads a lot into VRAM). This is one thing that MainStage does automatically, whether you want to or not. In Mainstage before starting the actual performance load each of your presets, thereby pre-loading each of your VSTs into RAM.

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'Spindump' reports and log files are what I see the most I've noticed very occasional 'blips' in the audio (at home, not on gigs) and I check the system logs to see that a logfile was written, or there was an attempt to 'phone home' to some Apple server at around the same time вЂ“ but I could be wrong about this.ДЄnd it goes without saying вЂ“ never upgrade system software automatically, or just because the upgrade is available! That most certainly applies to the latest version of OSX (Catalina) since 32-bit apps will stop working.ДҐ). I find that OSX still manages to do a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff and I wonder if it occasionally interferes with audio. I also have Energy Saver prefs set to 'Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off' and to not 'Put hard disks to sleep when possible.' I might be a little overzealous but don't want to leave anything to chance!

I also disable Notification Center by turning on 'Do Not Disturb' in System Prefs with the time set from 5:00AM to 4:59AM (it will turn on for a minute at 4:59AM!).

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I do go online via a web browser occasionally to download driver updates or other things I need to do gigs with, but that's about it.

Zero 'iCloud' stuff, email accounts, etc.

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Mojave on the 'gigging' partition is a stock install with no 3rd party software added except what I need to do gigs with: midi & audio drivers and the music sw I use. I use a separate partition on the internal drive dedicated just for playing gigs, with its own separate OSX install (not a second account that shares the same system). I have a late-2013 MacBook Pro, currently on Mojave (10.14.6). Since we're talking laptop strategies, I'll add a few of mine. I wish you a trouble-free experience like mine has mostly been (I've never had an actual crash, but a few hiccups here & there that were not show-stoppers). That never occured and I went to leaving the JV in the accessory case where it remains today. There was a brief period of time when I first started doing laptop gigs where I would hook up both the JV1010 and laptop audio into a small mixer so I could instantly switch to the JV if I had to. I've used it on a gig twice вЂ“ once when I accidentally left my laptop bag home, and once when my speakers thermalled on a gig and I thought it was the laptop.ДЄnyway, carrying a rack enclosure with a synth module 'just in case' is not something I would personally consider, but I understand you doing whatever makes you comfortable. I got it used on Ebay for around $150, don't remember the year. I carry a small 1/2 rack module in my accessory case along with my pedals вЂ“ a Roland JV1010 вЂ“ for emergencies.

I started using a laptop on stage close to 20 years ago. XV2020 would be in a rack, right? Or just laying out somewhere on stage naked? In my view, one of the big pluses of a laptop rig is minimizing the gear count & cable clutter.

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