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160MainStage User Guide
Text screencontrol parameters in MainStage
You can edit the following parameters for text screen controls after adding text to the text
field.
Text Parameters
• Font button: Select text, click the Font button to show the Font menu, then choose the
font, style, color, and size.
• Alignment buttons: Select whether the selected 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.
Background screencontrol parameters in MainStage
You can use backgrounds for grouped controls. You can edit the following parameters for
background screen controls.
General
• Name field: Enter a name for the grouped control in the Name field.
• Description field: Enter a description for the grouped control in the Description field.
• Panel button and well: Click the Panel button, then choose a panel or texture for the
background from the menu that appears.
• Image button and well: Click the Image button, then drag an image into the well to use it
for the background.
• Select button: Click to open an Open File dialog to browse and select an image.
• Stretch to Fit checkbox: When selected, the image stretches to fill the area of the
background as completely as possible.
How MainStage passes through MIDI messages
Some MIDI messages sent by your keyboard controller (or other MIDI device) are “passed
through” to any channel strips in the MainStage concert that are mapped to the same
controller (or device). Whether or not MIDI messages are passed through depends on the
following conditions:
• If there is no screen control in your layout assigned to receive the message type sent by
the controller, the messages are passed through.
• If a screen control for that MIDI message type exists, and the MIDI Thru parameter for
the screen control is set to Automatic or to the input device, the messages are passed
through. This is the default for screen controls set to receive volume, pan, expression,
sustain, modulation, pitch bend, and aftertouch messages.
• If a screen control for that MIDI message type exists, and the MIDI Thru parameter for
the screen control is set to “Do not pass through,” the data is not passed through. This
is the default for most other screen controls.