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
12 Chapter 1 An Introduction to MainStage
MainStage Onscreen User Manual
The MainStage onscreen user manual allows you to access information directly
onscreen while you’re working in MainStage. To view this information, choose Help >
MainStage User Manual. The MainStage onscreen user manual is a hyperlinked version
of the MainStage User Manual, enhanced with features that make locating information
quick and easy.
 The homepage provides quick access to various features, including the Late-Breaking
News and the Logic Studio Instruments and Effects manual.
 A comprehensive bookmark list allows you to quickly choose what you want to see
and takes you there as soon as you click the link.
In addition to these navigational tools, the MainStage onscreen user manual gives you
other means to locate information quickly:
 All cross-references in the text are linked. You can click any cross-reference and jump
immediately to that location. Then, you can use the Preview Back button to return to
where you were before you clicked the cross-reference.
 The table of contents and index are also linked. If you click an entry in either of these
sections, you jump directly to that section of the user manual.
 You can also use the Find dialog to search the text for specific words or a phrase.
Apple Websites
There are a variety of Apple websites that you can visit to find additional information.
Logic Studio Website
For general information and updates, as well as the latest news on Logic Studio,
including MainStage, go to:
 http://www.apple.com/logicstudio
Apple Service and Support Website
For software updates and answers to the most frequently asked questions for Apple
products, go to:
 http://www.apple.com/support
You’ll also have access to product specifications, reference documentation, and Apple
and third-party product technical articles.