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
Chapter 7 Working in Layout Mode 73
Merging Screen Controls
When you place screen controls close together so that their edges are adjacent, the
panels (for Panel controls) or the shelves (for Shelf controls) merge. The merged panel
or shelf “grows” to encompass all of the adjacent screen controls.
Merging screen controls does not affect how they work, but helps organize them
visually in the workspace. You can still move or resize a merged screen control by
selecting the control and then dragging it to move it or dragging its resize guides to
resize it. If you move or resize merged screen controls, the merged panel or shelf
adjusts to encompass the moved or resized screen control, as long as it remains
adjacent to the others.
When you select a merged screen control by rubber-banding, the merged panel or
shelf and all the screen controls on it are selected, making it easy to move them
together. You can select individual merged controls by Shift-clicking them.
Adjusting the Shelf for a Shelf Control
When you add a shelf control such as a keyboard to the workspace, it appears at a
default angle, creating a three-dimensional appearance. You can adjust the angle of the
shelf control so that it appears more or less three-dimensional. This can be useful, for
example, if you want to see more of the keys on the keyboard, or minimize the amount
of space it occupies onscreen.
To adjust the angle of the shelf for a shelf control:
1 In the workspace, select the shelf control.
White alignment guides for the control’s shelf appear.
Their panels or shelves
merge.
Move screen controls
close together.
Alignment guides