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
80 Chapter 7 Working in Layout Mode
Text Labels
 Display pop-up menu: Choose what information is displayed in the text display area
for the control, and how many lines are used to display it.
 Add Custom Text checkbox and field: Select the checkbox, then type custom text in
the field to display it on the top line of the control’s text display.
Drum Pad Parameters
You can edit the following parameters for drum pad screen controls.
Hardware Assignment
 Device pop-up menu: Shows the name of the device containing the drum pad. You
can choose another device, All, or Unassigned.
 Channel pop-up menu: Choose the MIDI channel on which MainStage receives input
from the controller.
 Note value slider: Set the MIDI note to which the drum pad responds.
Appearance
 Color selector: Choose the color for the active part of the screen control, so that you
can easily see when the drum pad is pressed.
 Control pop-up menu: Choose the type for the screen control. If you change the
control to a different type, you may need to resize it in the workspace.
Text Labels
 Display pop-up menu: Choose what information is displayed in the text display area,
and how many lines are used to display text.
 Add Custom Text checkbox and field: Select the checkbox, then type custom text in
the field to display it on the top line of the control’s text display.
Text Parameters
You can edit the following parameters for text screen controls.
 Font button: Click to show the Font menu from which you can select the font, style,
and size.
 Alignment buttons: Select whether the text is left, right, or center aligned, or justified.
 Text field: Enter the text you want to display onscreen.
 Show frame around text checkbox: When selected, a darker frame appears around the
text, showing the borders of the screen control.