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
44 Chapter 5 Working With Concerts
In the example above, you would click the fader screen control, click Out 1-2 in the left
column of the Parameter Mapping browser, and then click Volume in the second
column of the browser.
Screen controls can also display visual feedback about parameter values, including
volume level. For example, you can also map the Output 1-2 Volume fader to a level
meter screen control and have the level meter display the overall volume level while
you are performing live. In this case, you would map the level meter to Level in the
second column of the browser, rather than to Volume.
When you map a screen control at the concert level, you cannot map the same screen
control at the patch or set level unless you override the concert-level mapping. For
information about overriding concert-level mappings, see “Overriding Concert- and
Set-Level Mappings” on page 65.
Adding Concert-Wide Effects
You can add concert-wide effects such as reverb and delay using sends and busses.
When you choose a send from the Send slot on a channel strip, the corresponding bus
appears at the concert level. You can insert effects on the bus and have those effects
apply to every channel strip sending its signal to the bus.
To send a channel strip signal to a bus:
1 In the Patch List, select the patch you want to use with a concert-wide effect.
The channel strips for the patch appear in the Channel Strips area.
2 On the channel strip, click one of the Send slots and choose a bus from the menu.
Choose a bus from one
of the Sends slots.