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123MainStage User Guide
Work with concerts
Overview of concerts in MainStage
Concerts are where you create and organize the sounds you use in your performances,
customize your onscreen layout, and make connections between your MIDI hardware
and MainStage.
A concert holds all the sounds you’ll use for an entire performance or a series of
performances. In a concert, you add, edit, and organize patches, and select patches while
you are performing. You can reorder patches in the PatchList and also organize them into
sets.
Concerts also contain layouts, where you visually arrange screen controls in the workspace
and make connections between your hardware devices and MainStage. You can add and
arrange screen controls and assign physical controls on your hardware MIDI devices
to screen controls in Layout mode. For information about customizing your layout, see
Overview of Layout mode in MainStage.
You can also control the volume for an entire concert, add concert-wide effects, and make
other changes at the concert level.
Create a concert in MainStage
You start by creating a concert from a template. You can also open an existing concert to
play the patches in the concert or continue editing them.