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8 Chapter 1
An Introduction to MainStage
MainStage provides a simple, flexible interface for organizing and accessing your
sounds in
concerts
. Concerts are MainStage “documents” that hold your sounds—a
concert can store all the sounds you’ll use in an entire performance. In a MainStage
concert, individual sounds are stored as
patches
, and each patch can contain one or
more audio or software instrument channel strips. You can add channel strips, choose
channel strip settings, add instruments and effects, and edit their parameters to
customize your sounds. You can even mix audio and software instrument channel strips
in a single patch.
Each concert also includes a visual interface, called a
layout
, that has controls you can
use to modify your patches in live performance. Layouts contain
screen controls
, which
can include keyboards, faders, knobs, buttons, pedals, drum pads, and other objects.
You make connections between your MIDI devices and the concert by assigning
hardware controls to the screen controls in the MainStage workspace. After you make
controller assignments, you map the screen controls to channel strip and plug-in
parameters, completing the connection so that you can easily access and manipulate
the parameters you want for each patch in the concert. You can also map screen
controls to select patches and to provide visual feedback about patches, parameter
values, and other information in real time.
MainStage lets you quickly and easily make controller assignments and parameter
mappings to speed your workflow. You can customize your layout to match the
controls on your MIDI hardware, to optimize the use of available screen space, or in any
other way that suits your needs.
Using MainStage With MIDI Controllers
If you play a USB or MIDI keyboard controller, you can play and control MainStage
patches using your controller. You can assign faders, knobs, buttons, and other controls
on the keyboard controller to screen controls in your concert, and then map those
screen controls to parameters in your patches. You can choose exactly the parameters
you want to have at your fingertips for each patch and access them from your
controller as you perform.
You can use MainStage with keyboard controllers and other devices that send standard
MIDI messages, including sustain and expression pedals and MIDI foot switches. You
can also use MainStage with other controllers, such as MIDI guitars and wind controllers
.
- MainStage 1
- User Manual 1
- Contents 3
- An Introduction to MainStage 7
- 8 Chapter 1 8
- 10 Chapter 1 10
- An Introduction to MainStage 10
- Chapter 1 11
- Apple Websites 12
- Other Apple Websites 13
- Setting Up Your System 15
- Choosing a Controller Preset 16
- The MainStage Interface 17
- Layout Mode 19
- Edit Mode 20
- Perform Mode 21
- Full Screen Mode 22
- 23 23
- Choose a collection from 24
- Choose a template for a new 24
- Selecting and Playing Patches 25
- Adding a Patch 26
- Renaming a Patch 27
- Click the Learn button to 30
- Click the channel strip 33
- Click the parameter in 33
- Resizing the Workspace 34
- Customizing the Toolbar 35
- Working With Concerts 37
- Saving Concerts 38
- Tapping the Tempo 40
- Muting Audio Output 41
- Silencing MIDI Notes 42
- Working at the Concert Level 42
- Adding Concert-Wide Effects 44
- Working in Edit Mode 47
- Copying and Pasting Patches 48
- Reordering Patches 48
- Select the checkbox and 49
- Changing Patch Icons 50
- Deleting Patches 50
- Selecting Channel Strips 52
- Resetting a Channel Strip 54
- Renaming a Channel Strip 55
- Click the checkbox to 58
- Click a point on the curve 59
- Choose the input and 59
- Mapping Screen Controls 60
- Click the Actions menu to 61
- Click the action you 61
- Creating Sets 62
- Renaming Sets 63
- Working at the Set Level 64
- Select the checkbox to 65
- Working in Layout Mode 67
- Changing the Grid Resolution 68
- Working With Screen Controls 68
- Screen Control Types 69
- Adding Screen Controls 70
- Moving Screen Controls 71
- Resizing Screen Controls 72
- Merging Screen Controls 73
- Moving the Shelf Vertically 74
- Grouping Screen Controls 75
- Locking Screen Controls 75
- Deleting Screen Controls 76
- Assigning Knobs 77
- Assigning Buttons 77
- Keyboard Parameters 78
- Drum Pad Parameters 80
- Text Parameters 80
- Image Parameters 81
- Patch Selector Parameters 81
- Exporting a Layout 82
- Importing a Layout 82
- Working in Full Screen Mode 85
- Working in Perform Mode 86
- Using the Tuner 90
- Key Commands 93
- Parameter Mapping (Edit Mode) 94
- Channel Strips (Edit Mode) 94
- Screen Controls (Layout Mode) 95
- Window and View 95
- Help and Support 95
- Setting MainStage Preferences 97
- Audio/MIDI Preferences 98
- 99 99
- 100 Index 100
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