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 8 Performing Live With MainStage 89
Performing With Guitars and Other Instruments
You can play electric guitars and other music instruments connected to your computer,
using MainStage as a multi-effects processor. You choose the audio input to which the
instrument is connected in the audio channel strips you want to use with the
instrument. You can use guitar and bass amplification as well as other effects
commonly used with guitars, or try using different effects for unique sound
possibilities.
MainStage includes concert templates designed to be used with guitars. Some guitar-
oriented templates include patches with pedal board-style screen controls that can be
assigned to a foot switch, allowing you to bypass different effects in the channel strip.
Some patches also allow you to switch between channel strips with different effects
using an expression pedal.
When playing guitars and other low-impedance instruments, be sure they are
connected to an audio input that matches the impedance of the instrument.
Connecting a guitar to a standard line-level audio input may produce a lower volume
level for the guitar’s output than intended.
You can also use MainStage with vocals, or any sound captured with a microphone,
using an audio interface connected to your computer, and choosing the audio input
channel in audio channel strips in your patches.