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Lifting and Stamping Screen Control Parameters
You can “lift,” or copy, certain parameters from a screen control and “stamp” them onto
other screen controls. This makes it easy to give multiple screen controls the same size,
appearance, and text attributes to create a uniform look in your layout. Parameters affected
by lift and stamp include the parameters in the Appearance and Text Labels headings in
the Screen Control Inspector (except the control type), as well as the size of the screen
control.
To lift parameters from a screen control
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Control-click the screen control in the workspace, then choose Lift Attributes from the
shortcut menu.
To stamp parameters onto another screen control
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Control-click the screen control in the workspace, then choose Stamp Attributes from
the shortcut menu.
You can Shift-click to select multiple screen controls, then Control-click the selection.
Common Screen Control Parameters
You can edit the following common parameters for button, knob, fader, knob, pedal,
footswitch, mod/pitch wheel, meter, VU meter, organ drawbar, progress indicator, and
parameter text screen controls.
Hardware Input
• Device pop-up menu: Shows the name of the device containing the assigned control.
The device name may correspond to the name of a keyboard controller, or to a port
on the controller, if it has multiple ports. You can choose another device, All, or
Unassigned.
• Channel pop-up menu: Choose the MIDI channel on which MainStage receives input
from the controller.
If you plan to use more than one keyboard when you perform, be sure that screen
controls such as faders and knobs are assigned to receive input from the correct
controller using the Device and Channel pop-up menus.
• Type pop-up menu: Choose the type of control messages to which the control responds.
Control types include the following three categories:
• Continuous Control: Includes knobs, rotary encoders, faders, and most pedals that
send values in the range of 0-127. In most cases, these controls are set to Absolute.
Some rotary encoders can be set to Relative after you program the hardware device
to send relative controller messages. The different types of Relative control messages
represent different encoding types used by different vendors (who may refer to them
by proprietary names).
• Button Control—Toggle Only: Includes buttons that send either one (Single) or two
(Alternating) values.
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