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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 84
Change the tempo when you select a set
You can give a set its own tempo setting so that when you select the set, the tempo changes to
the set tempo setting. MainStage uses the new tempo until you select another patch or set with
its own tempo setting, tap a new tempo, or until MainStage receives tempo information from
incoming MIDI messages. For more information about using and changing tempo in MainStage,
see Tempo overview on page 90.
Change the tempo using a set
1 In the Patch List, select the set.
2 To activate the set tempo when the set is selected, select the “Change Tempo to” checkbox.
3 In the Set Inspector, set the set tempo using the “Change Tempo to” value slider.
Change the tuning for sets
By default, new sets (and most existing ones) use the same tuning method as the concert. You
can change the tuning for a set so that it uses a dierent tuning. When you change the tuning
method for a set, the patches in the set use the set-level tuning unless you change the tuning at
the patch level.
Change the tuning for a set
1 In the Set Inspector, click the Tuning tab.
2 Choose the tuning you want the set to use from the Method pop-up menu.
Collapse sets in the Patch List
You can collapse sets in the Patch List. When you collapse a set, you can select the set and use
any channel strips or busses at the set level but cannot select or play patches in the set while in
Edit mode.
Collapse a set
m In the Patch List, click the disclosure triangle for the set.
You can uncollapse the set by clicking its disclosure triangle again. Collapsing a set has no eect
on whether you can select patches in the set in Perform mode.
For information about creating and using sets, see Work with sets overview on page 83.
Override concert-level key ranges for a set
If a software instrument channel strip exists at the concert level, the concert-level channel strip
takes precedence over any set-level software instrument channel strips within its key range. This
means that when you play any notes in the key range of the concert-level channel strip on a
keyboard controller, you hear only the concert-level channel strip, even when a patch is selected
in a set with a set-level channel strip.
You can override the concert-level channel strip for a channel strip at the set level so that the
set-level channel strip takes precedence over the concert-level one.
Override concert- or set-level key ranges
1 In the Patch List, select the set with the channel strip that you want to override the concert-level
channel strip.
2 In the Channel Strips area, select the channel strip with the key range that you want to override
the concert-level key range.
3 Select the “Override parent ranges” checkbox.