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Table Of Contents
- MainStage 2 User Manual
- Contents
- Welcome to MainStage
- Introducing MainStage
- Setting Up Your System
- The MainStage Interface
- Getting Started with MainStage
- Before You Begin
- Opening MainStage
- Choosing a Concert Template
- Selecting Patch Settings in the Patch Library
- Adding a Patch
- Naming a Patch
- Selecting and Playing Patches
- Adding a Channel Strip
- Changing a Channel Strip Setting
- Learning a Controller Assignment
- Mapping a Screen Control
- Trying Out Full Screen and Perform Modes
- Working in Edit Mode
- Working with Patches in Edit Mode
- Selecting Items in the Patch List
- Skipping Items in the Patch List
- Collapsing Sets in the Patch List
- Copying and Pasting Patches
- Reordering Patches in the Patch List
- Moving Patches in the Patch List Repeatedly
- Creating a Patch from Several Patches
- Setting the Time Signature for a Patch
- Changing the Tempo When You Select a Patch
- Setting Patch Program Change Numbers
- Deferring Patch Changes
- Instantly Silencing the Previous Patch
- Changing the Patch Icon
- Changing the Tuning for a Patch
- Deleting Patches
- Working with Channel Strips in Edit Mode
- Selecting Channel Strips
- Showing Signal Flow Channel Strips
- Creating an Alias of a Channel Strip
- Editing Channel Strips in MainStage
- Choosing Channel Strip Settings
- Renaming a Channel Strip
- Changing the Channel Strip Color
- Changing the Channel Strip Icon
- Using Feedback Protection with Channel Strips
- Setting Keyboard Input for a Software Instrument Channel Strip
- Transposing Software Instrument Channel Strips
- Filtering MIDI Messages
- Setting a Channel Strip to Ignore Hermode Tuning
- Working with Graphs
- Creating Controller Transforms
- Scaling Channel Strip Velocity
- Creating Keyboard Layers and Splits
- Overriding Concert- and Set-Level Key Ranges
- Using the EXS24 mkII Instrument Editor in MainStage
- Using Multiple Instrument Outputs in MainStage
- Using External MIDI Instruments in MainStage
- Using the Activity Monitor
- Deleting Channel Strips
- Mapping Screen Controls
- Editing Screen Control Parameters in Edit Mode
- Overriding Concert- and Set-Level Mappings
- Replacing the Parameter Label
- Choosing a Custom Color for a Screen Control
- Choosing Custom Text Color for a Screen Control
- Setting a Screen Control to Show the Hardware Value
- Setting Parameter Change Behavior for Screen Controls
- Setting Hardware Matching Behavior for Screen Controls
- Resetting and Comparing Changes to a Patch
- Working with Sets in Edit Mode
- Working at the Set Level
- Sharing Patches and Sets Between Concerts
- Recording the Audio Output of a Concert
- Working with Patches in Edit Mode
- Working with Concerts
- Opening and Closing Concerts
- Saving Concerts
- How Saving Affects Parameter Values
- Setting the Time Signature for a Concert
- Using Tempo in a MainStage Concert
- Defining the Source for Program Change Messages for a Concert
- Setting the Pan Law for a Concert
- Changing the Tuning for a Concert
- Silencing MIDI Notes
- Muting Audio Output
- Working at the Concert Level
- Controlling the Metronome
- Working in Layout Mode
- Modifying the Layout of a Concert
- Working with Screen Controls
- Assigning Hardware Controls to Screen Controls
- Editing Screen Control Parameters
- Lifting and Stamping Screen Control Parameters
- Common Screen Control Parameters
- Keyboard Screen Control Parameters
- MIDI Activity Screen Control Parameters
- Drum Pad Screen Control Parameters
- Waveform Screen Control Parameters
- Selector Parameters
- Text Screen Control Parameters
- Background Screen Control Parameters
- How MainStage Passes Through MIDI Messages
- Exporting a Layout
- Importing a Layout
- Changing the Aspect Ratio of a Layout
- Playing Back Audio in MainStage
- Performing Live with MainStage
- Before the Performance Starts
- Using Full Screen Mode and Perform Mode
- Selecting Patches in Performance
- Using Screen Controls in Performance
- Handling Tempo Changes in Performance
- Tips for Performing with Keyboard Controllers
- Tips for Performing with Guitars and Other Instruments
- Using the Tuner
- Using the Playback Plug-in in Performance
- Recording Your Performances
- After the Performance
- Tips for Complex Hardware Setups
- Key Commands
- Appendix A: The Playback Plug-in
- Getting to Know the Playback Interface
- Using the Playback Waveform Display
- Using the Playback Transport and Function Buttons
- Using the Playback Information Display
- Using the Playback Sync, Snap To, and Play From Parameters
- Using the Playback Group Functions
- Using the Playback Action Menu and File Field
- Using the Playback Shortcut Menu
- Appendix B: The Loopback Plug-in
- Getting to Know the Loopback Interface
- Using the Loopback Waveform Display
- Using the Loopback Transport and Function Controls
- Using the Loopback Information Display
- Using the Loopback Sync, Snap To, and Play From Parameters
- Using the Loopback Group Functions
- Using the Loopback Action Menu
- Adding Loopback to a Channel Strip
- Appendix C: Setting MainStage Preferences
- Appendix D: Using MainStage Actions
2 Double-click the number in the field to the right, and enter the number of beats for one
measure of the time signature.
3 Choose the beat value from the pop-up menu to the right.
Changing the Tempo When You Select a Set
You can give a set its own tempo setting so that when you select the set, the tempo
changes to the set tempo setting. MainStage uses the new tempo until you select another
patch or set with its own tempo setting, tap a new tempo, or until MainStage receives
tempo information from incoming MIDI messages. For more information about using
and changing tempo in MainStage, see Using Tempo in a MainStage Concert.
To change the tempo using a set
1 In the Patch List, select the set.
2 In the Set Inspector, set the set tempo using the “Change Tempo to” value slider.
3 Select the “Change Tempo to” checkbox to activate the set tempo when the set is selected.
Changing the Tuning for a Set
By default, new sets (and most existing ones) use the same tuning method as the concert.
You can change the tuning for a set so that it uses a different tuning. When you change
the tuning method for a set, the patches in the set use the set-level tuning unless you
change the tuning at the patch level.
To change the tuning for a set
1 In the Set Inspector, select the Tuning tab.
2 Choose the tuning you want the set to use from the Method pop-up menu.
Overriding Concert-Level Key Ranges for a Set
If a software instrument channel strip exists at the concert level, the concert-level channel
strip takes precedence over any set-level software instrument channel strips within its
key range. This means that when you play any notes in the key range of the concert-level
channel strip on a keyboard controller, you hear only the concert-level channel strip, even
when a patch is selected in a set with a set-level channel strip.
You can override the concert-level channel strip for a channel strip at the set level so that
the set-level channel strip takes precedence over the concert-level one.
To override concert- or set-level key ranges
1 In the Patch List, select the set with the channel strip that you want to override the
concert-level channel strip.
2 In the Channel Strips area, select the channel strip with the key range that you want to
override the concert-level key range.
3 Select the “Override parent ranges” checkbox.
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