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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
Appendix E MainStage actions 157
Action Description Usage
Prev Set Selects the set above the current
patch in the Patch List.
Button screen control
Current Set Displays the name of the current
set.
Parameter Text screen control
Next Set Selects the set below the current
patch in the Patch List.
Button screen control
Concert Displays the name of the concert. Parameter Text screen control
Tuner Shows or hides the Tuner. Button screen control
Master Tuning Adjusts the overall tuning for
the concert, from −100 cents to
+100 cents.
Knob or fader screen control
Master Mute Mutes or unmutes all audio
(toggle).
Button screen control
Tap Tempo Use to tap a new tempo. Button screen control
Metronome Turns the metronome on or o
and starts the “transport” (toggle).
Button screen control
MIDI Beat Clock Displays incoming MIDI beat clock
messages.
Parameter Text screen control
Beat Count Displays the current bar and beat
count from the “transport” if it is
running.
Button screen control
MIDI Display Displays incoming MIDI messages,
the same as the MIDI Activity
display in the toolbar.
Button screen control
Panic Silences all MIDI notes and resets
the audio engine.
Button screen control
CPU Load Displays the current CPU usage,
the same as the CPU Activity
display in the toolbar.
Parameter Text screen control
Record Turns audio recording on or o
(toggle).
Button screen control
Play/Stop Starts or stops playback at the
current transport position.
Button screen control
Play Starts playback at the beginning of
the song or le (bar 1, beat 1).
Button screen control
Stop Pauses playback at the current
transport position.
Button screen control
Continue Resumes playback at the current
transport position.
Button screen control
Reset/Compare Patch Toggles the selected patch
between its edited and last saved
state (toggle).
Button screen control
Current Time Displays the current time in hours,
minutes, and seconds.
Parameter Text screen control