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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
Chapter 5 Work in Edit mode 66
Use Channel EQ
The Channel EQ plug-in allows you to sculpt the sound of the channel strip before applying
other eects.
Use the Channel EQ plug-in
1 Double-click the EQ icon at the top of the channel strip.
The Channel EQ plug-in is added to the rst available Insert slot and the plug-in window opens.
2 Do one of the following:
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Choose a Channel EQ setting from the Settings pop-up menu at the top of the
plug-in window.
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To graphically edit an EQ band, drag vertically to change the level or drag horizontally to
change the center frequency.
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To numerically edit an EQ band, drag the number to raise or lower the value; or double-click,
then type a new value.
For information about using the Channel EQ eect, see the MainStage Eects manual.
Use plug-in settings
MainStage plug-ins include settings that combine a set of parameter values optimized for a
specic result. For an instrument plug-in, a setting may re-create the characteristic sound of
a particular instrument, while for an eect plug-in, it may be tailored for use with a specic
instrument or to create a particular sound. You can choose settings, copy and paste settings, save
settings, and perform other functions in the Settings pop-up menu for each plug-in.
Choose a plug-in setting
1 To open the plug-in window, double-click the plug-in slot.
2 Click the Settings pop-up menu (at the top of the plug-in window), browse to the setting you
want, then select it.
Tip: You can also select the plug-in slot, then choose a plug-in setting in the Channel
Strip Inspector.
Choose the previous or next plug-in setting
Do one of the following:
m To choose the previous plug-in setting: Click the left arrow next to the Settings pop-up menu (or
choose Previous Setting from the Settings pop-up menu).
m To choose the next plug-in setting: Click the right arrow next to the Settings pop-up menu (or
choose Next Setting from the Settings pop-up menu).
Copy and paste plug-in settings
1 Click the Copy button in the plug-in window header (or choose Copy Setting from the Settings
pop-up menu).
All parameter setting are copied to a plug-in settings Clipboard, which is independent of the
OS X Clipboard.
2 Click the Paste button in the plug-in window header (or choose Paste Setting from the Settings
pop-up menu).