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
98 Appendix B Setting MainStage Preferences
Audio/MIDI Preferences
These preferences let you set the audio output and input drivers, set the size of the I/O
buffer, set the audio sample rate, and choose which note is displayed as middle C.
Audio
 Audio Output pop-up menu: Choose the device you want to use to hear the audio
output from MainStage.
 Audio Input pop-up menu: Choose the device you want to use as the source for audio
input.
 I/O Buffer Size pop-up menu: Choose the size of the buffer for audio input and output
in samples. Smaller buffer sizes reduce the amount of latency, but also require more
work from the CPU and may result in playback artifacts. You may want to try different
settings to find the lowest setting that does not produce any artifacts.
 Sample Rate pop-up menu: Choose the sample rate for audio input. If you are using
an audio interface or other audio device with MainStage, the Sample Rate value
should be set to the sample rate of your audio device.
 Silence Previous Patch: Choose the amount of time sustained notes and effects tails
continue to sound before falling to silence when you select a new patch.
MIDI
 Display Middle C As pop-up menu: Choose whether middle C is displayed as C3 or C4.
 MIDI Status display: Displays the number of detected MIDI inputs.