User manual
Table Of Contents
- MainStage User Manual
- Contents
- An Introduction to MainStage
- Setting Up Your System
- The MainStage Interface
- Getting Started With MainStage
- Before You Begin
- Choosing a Concert Template
- Selecting and Playing Patches
- Adding a Patch
- Renaming a Patch
- Adding a Channel Strip to a Patch
- Changing a Channel Strip Setting
- Learning Controller Assignments
- Mapping Screen Controls to Parameters
- Trying Out Full Screen and Perform Modes
- Customizing the MainStage Window
- Working With Concerts
- Working in Edit Mode
- Working With Patches in Edit Mode
- Working With Channel Strips in Edit Mode
- Selecting Channel Strips
- Choosing Channel Strip Settings
- Resetting a Channel Strip
- Editing Channel Strips in MainStage
- Renaming a Channel Strip
- Choosing the Channel Strip Color
- Changing the Channel Strip Icon
- Showing Signal Flow Channel Strips
- Creating Keyboard Layers and Splits
- Setting the Velocity Range and Offset
- Creating Controller Transforms
- Filtering MIDI Messages
- Deleting Channel Strips
- Mapping Screen Controls
- Working With Sets in Edit Mode
- Working at the Set Level
- Overriding Concert- and Set-Level Mappings
- Sharing Patches and Sets Between Concerts
- Working in Layout Mode
- Performing Live With MainStage
- Key Commands
- Setting MainStage Preferences
- Index
20 Chapter 3 The MainStage Interface
Edit Mode
Edit mode is where you create, customize, and organize your sounds. You can add
patches, add and edit channel strips, create keyboard layers and splits, and edit channel
strip parameters. Edit mode is also where you select and map screen controls to
channel strip parameters and actions, and edit patch, set, and concert-level parameters.
 Patch List: Shows the patches and sets in the concert. You can add patches and sets
to the Patch List and rename, select, and reorder them. The Patch List includes an
Action menu where you can create patches and sets, reset program change
numbers, skip items, and import and export patches and sets to use in other
concerts.
 Concert, Set, Patch, Channel Strip, and Screen Control Inspectors: View and edit
parameters for the currently selected item. The name of the inspector changes to
reflect the type of item selected.
 Channel Strip Settings browser (displayed when a channel strip is selected): Choose
channel strip settings for the selected channel strip. You can search for settings by
name, choose which settings are visible, and set the default channel strip setting for
new channel strips.
 Parameter Mapping browser (displayed when a screen control is selected): Choose
channel strip parameters or actions to map to the screen control currently selected in
the workspace.
Patch List
Screen Control
Inspector
(changes depending on
the selection)
Parameter Mapping
Browser
Channel Strips
area