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
54 Chapter 6 Working in Edit Mode
3 If more than one channel strip has the text as part of its name, choose Find Again from
the Action menu to cycle through the channel strips with names containing the text.
4 To change the channel strip setting, click the name of the new setting in the Channel
Strip Settings browser.
The Channel Strip Settings browser shows all channel strip settings available to
Logic Studio applications, including settings that may not be useful in MainStage, such
as surround and mastering settings. If you choose a channel strip setting containing
plug-ins not usable in MainStage, the plug-ins appear with a bold diagonal line in the
Channel Strips area.
Resetting a Channel Strip
You can also reset a channel strip. Resetting a channel strip removes all instruments
and effects, putting the channel strip in an “empty” state.
To reset a channel strip:
1 In the Channel Strips area, select the channel strip.
2 In the Channel Strip Settings browser, click Reset.
After you have reset the channel strip, you can choose a new setting from the Channel
Strip Settings browser or add instruments and effects directly on the channel strip.
Editing Channel Strips in MainStage
You can add instruments to software instrument channel strips and add effects to both
audio and software instrument channel strips in the Channel Strips area. Adding
instruments and effects to a channel strip is the same in MainStage as it is in
Logic Pro 8.
Not all Logic Studio effects and instruments can be used with MainStage. In particular,
effects that introduce a large amount of latency, or that are designed for surround
panning, cannot be used with MainStage. If you choose a channel strip setting
containing one of these effects, the unused effects are shown disabled (gray, with a
diagonal line running through the effect name).
You edit channel strip parameters in the Channel Strip Inspector, which appears below
the Patch List when the channel strip is selected in the Channel Strips area. You can
rename a channel strip, give it a color, set a velocity range and velocity offset, create a
controller transform, and filter MIDI control messages to the channel strip.