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Chapter 2 Adding and Organizing Patches
Playing Patches
With the patch selected, try moving dierent controls on your MIDI controller. Some
screen controls, including the keyboard, modulation and pitch bend wheel, and
sustain pedal screen controls, respond to corresponding MIDI messages without
requiring any conguration.
Try This
Play your keyboard controller:
If you are playing a MIDI keyboard controller, try playing notes and chords on the m
keyboard. Move the mod wheel and pitch bend wheel. Try pressing buttons and
moving dierent knobs, sliders, rotary encoders, or other controls on your controller,
and observe whether the screen controls in the workspace respond.
Play your electric guitar:
If you are playing an electric guitar, the screen controls don’t respond to the knobs on m
your guitar, but the Output meter shows audio output if your guitar is connected to
the selected audio input. If you are using a MIDI footswitch, press the footswitch and
observe whether the MIDI Activity meter above the workspace responds. You can use
a MIDI footswitch to send patch changes to MainStage and use MIDI devices to control
patch parameters in real time.