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
18 Chapter 3 The MainStage Interface
The main features of the MainStage window include:
 Toolbar: Includes buttons for common commands and tools. You can customize the
Toolbar so that the commands you use most frequently are readily available.
 Activity Monitor: Shows your computer’s processor and memory usage, and shows
the input from your MIDI devices as you edit and perform.
 Workspace: The “canvas” where you customize your onscreen layout, assign hardware
controls to screen controls, and view your concerts.
 Screen controls: The onscreen objects that correspond to the controls on your
hardware devices. You can add and arrange screen controls in the workspace, assign
hardware controls to screen controls, and then map them to parameters you want to
control for each patch in your concert.
 Channel strips: Channel strips are where you build and customize your sounds.
MainStage channel strips are similar to channel strips in Logic Pro 8, with Insert,
Sends, and I/O menus as well as level meters, faders, pan knobs, and other controls.
 Inspectors: Inspectors appear on the left side of the MainStage window when you
select items onscreen. Different inspectors are available in different modes. The
inspectors allow you to edit parameters and attributes for patches, sets, screen
controls, channel strips, and the concert and layout.
To make working easier, MainStage features four different modes, each suited to a
different task. You audition, edit, and organize your sounds and map screen controls in
Edit mode. You customize the visual arrangement of controls onscreen and make
controller assignments in Layout mode. You use either Perform mode or Full Screen
mode when you perform live.