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Concerts are the documents in which you create and organize the sounds you use in
your performances, customize your onscreen layout, and make connections between
your MIDI hardware and MainStage.
A concert holds all the sounds you’ll use for an entire performance or a series of
performances. In a concert, you add, edit, and organize patches, and select patches while
you are performing. You can reorder patches in the Patch List and also organize them
into sets.
Concerts also contain layouts, where you visually arrange screen controls in the workspace
and make connections between your hardware devices and MainStage. You can add and
arrange screen controls and assign physical controls on your hardware MIDI devices to
screen controls in Layout mode. For information about customizing your layout, see
Working in Layout Mode.
You can also control the volume for an entire concert, add concert-wide effects, and make
other changes at the concert level.
This chapter covers the following:
• Opening and Closing Concerts (p. 88)
• Saving Concerts (p. 89)
• How Saving Affects Parameter Values (p. 89)
• Setting the Time Signature for a Concert (p. 90)
• Using Tempo in a MainStage Concert (p. 91)
• Defining the Source for Program Change Messages for a Concert (p. 92)
• Setting the Pan Law for a Concert (p. 93)
• Changing the Tuning for a Concert (p. 93)
• Silencing MIDI Notes (p. 93)
• Muting Audio Output (p. 94)
• Working at the Concert Level (p. 95)
• Controlling the Metronome (p. 101)
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