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Performing Live with MainStage

Now your concert is ready to go—it’s time to play.

This chapter includes some tips you can use when you play live with MainStage.

Before the Performance Starts

Here are a few things to check before you start performing:

Make sure your MIDI controllers, instruments, microphones, and other music

equipment are connected to your computer and are working.

Select a patch with a software instrument channel strip and play your keyboard

controller. Watch the Activity Monitor to verify that MainStage is receiving MIDI input

from the controller, and make sure you can hear the audio output.

Check to ensure that any instruments or microphones you plan to play through audio

channel strips are connected to the correct audio inputs on your audio interface.

Select a patch with an audio channel strip and play or sing to check whether you can

hear audio output.

For the best results, close any applications that you do not need while performing,

particularly applications with high processor or RAM requirements.

Make sure you are not connected to any wired or wireless networks.