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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 73
Map a screen control to multiple parameters
You can map a single screen control to multiple parameters and control how the screen control
modies each mapped parameter. Mapping a screen control to multiple parameters is also
referred to as multimapping. You map a screen control to up to eight parameters by adding
mappings in the Screen Control Inspector.
If you create multiple mappings for a screen control, you can dene the relationships between
the rst mapping and subsequent mappings. This can be especially useful when, for example,
you are mapping the same control to lter cuto and lter resonance, and you want to ensure
that resonance does not exceed a certain maximum value as you increase the cuto value. The
default relationship aects all future mappings (for the same and other screen controls), but does
not aect existing mappings. The default is set to Scale the rst time you open MainStage.
Add a mapping
1 Map the screen control to a parameter or action, as described in Map screen controls to channel
strip and plug-in parameters on page 69 and Map screen controls to actions on page 71.
2 With the screen control selected, click the Add Mapping (+) button at the upper-right corner of
the Screen Control Inspector.
A new Unmapped tab appears in the Inspector, showing the Parameter Mapping browser.
3 In the Parameter Mapping browser, choose the parameter to which you want to map the
screen control.
If you add a mapping while the Learn process is active (the Assign & Map button is red), you can
immediately learn the new mapping. There are key commands for selecting the previous and
next tab to make mapping to multiple parameters easier. For more information, see Parameter
mapping (Edit mode) on page 153.
View all mappings for a screen control
m In the Screen Control Inspector, click the Mappings tab.
The mappings appear in a list view that shows the minimum and maximum range values and
patch change behavior for each mapping and includes buttons to open the Parameter graph
and Invert graph values for each mapping.
Dene the default relationship between the rst mapping and subsequent mappings
1 Select a screen control you want to map to multiple parameters.
2 Choose Default Relation to First Mapping from the Action pop-up menu, located in the upper-
right corner of the Screen Control Inspector.
3 Do one of the following:
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To set subsequent mappings to be oset by a xed value from the rst mapping: Choose Oset.
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To set subsequent mappings to scale by a constant ratio, starting from the same minimum value:
Choose Scale.
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To set subsequent mappings to scale by a constant ratio to the point dened for the mapping,
starting from both the same minimum value and maximum value: Choose Pivot.