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Table Of Contents
- MainStage 3 User Manual
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introducing MainStage
- Chapter 2: Set up your system
- Chapter 3: The MainStage interface
- Chapter 4: Get started with MainStage
- Chapter 5: Work in Edit mode
- Edit mode overview
- Work with patches in Edit mode
- Select items in the Patch List
- Copy, paste, and delete patches
- Reorder and move patches in the Patch List
- Create a patch from several patches
- Set the time signature for patches
- Change the tempo when you select a patch
- Set program change and bank numbers
- Defer patch changes
- Instantly silence the previous patch
- Change patch icons
- Change the tuning for a patch
- Work with channel strips in Edit mode
- Channel strips overview
- Show signal flow channel strips
- Show the metronome channel strip
- Create an alias of a channel strip
- Add a patch bus
- Channel Strip Inspector
- Choose channel strip settings
- Rename channel strips
- Change channel strip colors
- Change channel strip icons
- Use feedback protection with channel strips
- Work with software instrument channel strips
- Use the EXS24 mkII Instrument Editor in MainStage
- Use multiple instrument outputs
- Use external MIDI instruments in MainStage
- Delete channel strips
- Create keyboard layers and splits
- Work with graphs
- Create controller transforms
- Work with plug-ins in Edit mode
- Map screen controls
- Screen controls overview
- Map screen controls to channel strip and plug-in parameters
- Map screen controls to actions
- Map a screen control to multiple parameters
- Edit the saved value for a mapped parameter
- Set drum pads or buttons to use note velocity
- Use parameter mapping graphs
- Map screen controls to all channel strips in a patch
- Undo screen control parameter mappings
- Remove screen control mappings
- Work in the Assignments and Mappings tab
- Edit screen control parameters in Edit mode
- Screen control parameters in Edit mode overview
- Replace parameter labels
- Choose custom colors for screen controls
- Change the appearance of a background or grouped screen control
- Set screen controls to show the hardware value
- Set parameter change behavior for screen controls
- Set hardware matching behavior for screen controls
- Reset and compare changes to a patch
- Override concert- and set-level mappings
- Work with sets in Edit mode
- Share patches and sets between concerts
- Record the audio output of a concert
- Chapter 6: Work with concerts
- Open and close concerts
- Save concerts
- How saving affects parameter values
- Set the time signature for a concert
- Use tempo in a MainStage concert
- Define the source for program change messages
- Set the pan law for a concert
- Change the tuning for a concert
- Silence MIDI notes
- Mute audio output
- Work at the concert level
- Control the metronome
- Chapter 7: Work in Layout mode
- Layout mode overview
- Work with screen controls in Layout mode
- Assign hardware controls to screen controls
- Edit screen control parameters
- Screen control parameter editing overview
- Lift and stamp 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 screen control parameters
- Text screen control parameters
- Background screen control parameters
- How MainStage passes through MIDI messages
- Export layouts
- Import a layout
- Change the aspect ratio of a layout
- Chapter 8: Perform live with MainStage
- Before the performance
- Use Perform mode
- Select patches in performance
- Screen controls in performance
- Tempo changes in performance
- Tips for performing with keyboard controllers
- Tips for performing with guitars and other instruments
- Tune guitars and other instruments with the Tuner
- The Playback plug-in in performance
- Record your performances
- After the performance
- Tips for complex hardware setups
- Appendix A: The Playback plug-in
- Playback plug-in overview
- The Playback interface
- Use the Playback waveform display
- Playback transport and function buttons
- Playback information display
- Playback Sync, Snap To, and Play From parameters
- Use the Playback group functions
- Use the Playback Action menu and File field
- Use markers with the Playback plug-in
- Use the Playback plug-in in a concert
- Appendix B: The Loopback plug-in
- Appendix C: MainStage preferences
- Appendix D: Key commands
- Appendix E: MainStage actions
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Before the performance
Now that you’ve created and organized your sounds and set up your layout, it’s time to play!
MainStage features Perform mode that optimizes your display for live performance. Here are a
few things to check before you begin performing:
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Make sure your MIDI controllers, instruments, microphones, and other music equipment are
connected to your computer and are working.
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Test the audio output from MainStage using the audio interface and speakers or monitors you
plan to use in performance.
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Select a patch with a software instrument channel strip and play your keyboard controller.
Watch the Activity Monitor to make sure MainStage is receiving MIDI input from the controller,
and make sure you can hear the audio output.
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Make sure any instruments or microphones you plan to play through audio channel strips are
connected to the correct audio inputs on your audio interface. Select a patch with an audio
channel strip and play or sing to make sure you can hear audio output.
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For the best results, close any applications that you do not need while performing, particularly
applications with high processor or RAM requirements.
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Disconnect the computer that is running MainStage from any network connections.
Use Perform mode
When you perform live, you can use either Perform in Full Screen or Perform in Window,
depending on which you prefer. Each oers some advantages for dierent performance
situations. If you want to view the workspace at maximum size on your display and do not
need to access the Finder or the toolbar, use Perform in Full Screen. If you need to access other
applications or access buttons in the toolbar, use Perform in Window.
Switch to Perform mode
Do one of the following:
m Choose View > Perform in Full Screen (or press Command-4).
m Click the Perform button in the toolbar.
Note: By default, the Perform button opens the workspace in full screen. For information about
changing this preference, see Display preferences on page 151.
Close Perform in Full Screen
Do one of the following:
m Press the Escape (Esc) key.
m Click the circled “X” in the upper-left corner of the screen.
m Use the key command for one of the other modes (Command-1 through Command-3).
Perform live with MainStage
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