User Manual
Table Of Contents
- MainStage User Manual
- Contents
- An Introduction to MainStage
- Setting Up Your System
- The MainStage Interface
- Getting Started With MainStage
- Before You Begin
- Choosing a Concert Template
- Selecting and Playing Patches
- Adding a Patch
- Renaming a Patch
- Adding a Channel Strip to a Patch
- Changing a Channel Strip Setting
- Learning Controller Assignments
- Mapping Screen Controls to Parameters
- Trying Out Full Screen and Perform Modes
- Customizing the MainStage Window
- Working With Concerts
- Working in Edit Mode
- Working With Patches in Edit Mode
- Working With Channel Strips in Edit Mode
- Selecting Channel Strips
- Choosing Channel Strip Settings
- Resetting a Channel Strip
- Editing Channel Strips in MainStage
- Renaming a Channel Strip
- Choosing the Channel Strip Color
- Changing the Channel Strip Icon
- Showing Signal Flow Channel Strips
- Creating Keyboard Layers and Splits
- Setting the Velocity Range and Offset
- Creating Controller Transforms
- Filtering MIDI Messages
- Deleting Channel Strips
- Mapping Screen Controls
- Working With Sets in Edit Mode
- Working at the Set Level
- Overriding Concert- and Set-Level Mappings
- Sharing Patches and Sets Between Concerts
- Working in Layout Mode
- Performing Live With MainStage
- Key Commands
- Setting MainStage Preferences
- Index

100 Index
L
Layout Inspector 19
Layout mode
description 19
switching to 67
layouts 8
exporting 82
importing 82
Logic Studio, learning about 13
M
MainStage, onscreen help 12
Master Mute 41
microphones, using 9
MIDI
filtering 60
passing through messages 81
MIDI controllers, assigning controls 76
P
Panic 42
Parameter Mapping browser 20
patches 8
adding 26
changing icon 50
changing program change number 49
changing the tempo with 50
deleting 50
exporting 66
importing 66
naming 27
overriding concert-level key ranges 57
playing 25
reordering 48
selecting 25
Patch Inspector 20
Patch List
overview 20
reordering patches in 48
Perform mode 21
switching to 33
using 86
program change numbers
changing 49
selecting patches with 88
Q
QuickTime 13
S
Screen Control Inspector 20
screen controls 8, 18
adding 70
adjusting shelf 73
copying 71
deleting 76
editing parameters 78
grouping 75
locking 75
mapping to parameters 31, 60
merging panels and shelves 73
moving 71
Panel 69
pasting 71
resizing 72
Shelf 69
types of 69
working with 68
Set Inspector 20
set level, working on 64
sets
changing the tempo with 63
creating 62
deleting 64
importing 66
naming 63
working with 62
signal flow channel strips 55
specifications 13
T
tempo
changing in performance 88
getting from MIDI input 40
setting for a patch 50
tapping 40
using in a concert 39
Toolbar
buttons 35–36
customizing 35–36
transforms, creating 58
tuner, using 90
U
User Manual 12
V
velocity offset 58
velocity range 58
W
websites
Apple homepage 13
Apple Service and Support 12
Apple Store 13
Apple websites 13
FireWire 13
QuickTime 13
workspace 18