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65MainStage User Guide
3. In the Mapping browser, select the external instrument, then select the MIDI Controller
folder from the submenu.
4. In the third column from the left, select Program Change.
The screen control is mapped to the Program Change parameter. By moving the
hardware control assigned to the screen control, you can send program changes to
the external instrument.
Note: If the MIDI Out parameter of the external instrument channel strip is set to the
external instrument when you map the screen control to the Program change parameter,
a program change (Program 0) is sent when you create the mapping. If you are editing the
program on the external instrument, your changes may be lost. To map the screen control
without sending an immediate program change to the external instrument, choose None
from the MIDI Out slot of the external instrument before you create the mapping, then
choose the external instrument in the MIDI Out slot. No program change is sent until
you move the knob or fader.
Pass SysEx data through to an external instrument
1. In the MainStage External Instrument Channel Strip Inspector, click the MIDI Input tab.
2. In the Input column of the Inspector window, deselect the SysEx checkbox.
The external instrument channel strip now passes SysEx data through to the instrument.
Send a MIDI file using an external instrument
1. In the MainStage External Instrument Channel Strip Inspector, click the MIDI Output tab.
2. Select the Send MIDI File checkbox, then click the Select button.
3. Browse to the location of the MIDI file you want to add, select the file, then click Send.
The MIDI file is sent immediately to the port selected on the external instrument channel
strip. The MIDI file is re-sent when you change patches, just like the other options in the
Channel Strip Inspector (such as Program Change or MIDI Clock messages).
Only SMF (standard MIDI file) types 0 and 1 are supported. MIDI files are sent sequentially,
one at at time, per concert. If you switch rapidly through several patches that send long
MIDI files, the MIDI files are queued and sent in succession. MIDI messages are sent at the
tempo stored in the MIDI file.
Reorganize channel strips in MainStage
If a patch has multiple channel strips, you can reorganize them in the Channel Strips area
by moving individual channel strips to the right or left of other channel strips. You can only
move audio, software instrument, and external MIDI channel strips, not the Metronome or
signal flow channel strips.
Move a channel strip in the Channel Strips area
• Drag an audio, software instrument, or External MIDI channel strip to the right or left in
the MainStage Channel Strips area.
Note: Be sure to drag from a portion of the channel strip without any controls or
text fields.