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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Get started with MainStage
- Overview of getting started with MainStage
- Get started with the MainStage window
- Get started with patches in MainStage
- Get started with channel strips in MainStage
- Assignments and mappings
- Get started with layouts in MainStage
- Get started with Perform mode in MainStage
- Get started with Quick Help in MainStage
- MainStage basics
- What is MainStage?
- MainStage workflow basics
- MainStage interface overview
- Manage MainStage content
- How to get help in MainStage
- Connect external devices
- Overview of connecting external devices to MainStage
- Connect MIDI devices
- Connect audio devices
- Work in Edit mode
- Overview of Edit mode in MainStage
- Work with patches
- Select patches and sets in the MainStage Patch List
- Copy, paste, and delete patches in MainStage
- Reorder and move patches in the MainStage Patch List
- Add patches in MainStage
- Create a patch from several patches in MainStage
- Work with patch settings
- Overview of the MainStage Patch Settings Inspector
- Select patch settings in the MainStage Patch Library
- Set the time signature for patches in MainStage
- Change the tempo when you select a patch in MainStage
- Set program change and bank numbers in MainStage
- Defer patch changes in MainStage
- Instantly silence the previous patch in MainStage
- Change patch icons in MainStage
- Transpose the pitch of incoming notes for a patch in MainStage
- Change the tuning for a patch in MainStage
- Add text notes to a patch in MainStage
- Work with channel strips
- Overview of channel strips in MainStage
- Add a channel strip in MainStage
- Change a channel strip setting in MainStage
- Configure channel strip components in MainStage
- Show signal flow channel strips in MainStage
- Hide the metronome channel strip in MainStage
- Create an alias of a channel strip in MainStage
- Add a patch bus in MainStage
- Set channel strip pan or balance positions in MainStage
- Set channel strip volume levels in MainStage
- Mute and solo channel strips in MainStage
- Use multiple instrument outputs in MainStage
- Use external MIDI instruments in MainStage
- Reorganize channel strips in MainStage
- Delete channel strips in MainStage
- Work with channel strip settings
- Overview of the MainStage Channel Strip Inspector
- Choose channel strip settings in MainStage
- Rename channel strips in MainStage
- Change channel strip colors in MainStage
- Change channel strip icons in MainStage
- Use feedback protection with channel strips in MainStage
- Set keyboard input for a software instrument channel strip in MainStage
- Transpose individual software instruments in MainStage
- Filter MIDI messages in MainStage
- Scale channel strip velocity in MainStage
- Set channel strips to ignore Hermode tuning in MainStage
- Override concert- and set-level key ranges in MainStage
- Add text notes to a channel strip in the MainStage Channel Strip Inspector
- Work with plug-ins
- Route audio via send effects in MainStage
- Create keyboard layers and splits
- Work with articulations
- Edit screen control parameters
- Overview of the Screen Control Inspector in MainStage
- Replace parameter labels in MainStage
- Choose custom colors for screen controls in MainStage
- Change background or grouped screen control appearance in MainStage
- Set MainStage screen controls to show the hardware value
- Set parameter change behavior for MainStage screen controls
- Set hardware matching behavior for MainStage screen controls
- Reset and compare changes to a patch in MainStage
- Override concert- and set-level mappings in MainStage
- Map screen controls
- Overview of mapping MainStage screen controls
- Map MainStage screen controls to channel strip and plug-in parameters
- Map MainStage screen controls to actions
- Map a MainStage screen control to multiple parameters
- Use screen controls to display PDF document pages in MainStage
- Edit the saved value for a mapped parameter in MainStage
- Set drum pads or buttons to use note velocity in MainStage
- Map MainStage screen controls to all channel strips in a patch
- Undo MainStage screen control parameter mappings
- Remove screen control mappings in MainStage
- Work with graphs in MainStage
- Create controller transforms in MainStage
- Work in the Assignments and Mappings tab
- Work with sets
- Overview of working with sets in MainStage
- Create sets in MainStage
- Rename sets in MainStage
- Collapse sets in the MainStage Patch List
- Override concert-level key ranges for a set in MainStage
- Delete sets in MainStage
- Add a channel strip at the MainStage set level
- Work with set settings
- Overview of the MainStage Set Settings Inspector
- Set the time signature for sets in MainStage
- Change the tempo when selecting MainStage sets
- Choose a color for the set folder in the MainStage Patch List
- Transpose the pitch of incoming notes for a MainStage set
- Change the tuning for sets in MainStage
- Add text notes to a set in MainStage
- Share patches and sets between MainStage concerts
- Record the audio output of a MainStage concert
- Work with concerts
- Overview of concerts in MainStage
- Create a concert in MainStage
- Open and close concerts in MainStage
- Save concerts in MainStage
- How saving affects parameter values in MainStage
- Clean up concerts in MainStage
- Consolidate assets in a MainStage concert
- Rename the current concert in MainStage
- Work with concert settings
- Overview of the MainStage Concert Settings Inspector
- Set MIDI Routing to channel strips in MainStage
- Transpose incoming note pitch for a concert in MainStage
- Define the program change message source in MainStage
- Send unused program changes to channel strips in MainStage
- Set the time signature for a concert in MainStage
- Change the tuning for a concert in MainStage
- Set the pan law for a concert in MainStage
- Add text notes to a concert in MainStage
- Tempo in MainStage concerts
- Control the metronome in MainStage
- Silence MIDI notes in MainStage
- Mute audio output in MainStage
- Work at the concert level
- Work in Layout mode
- Overview of Layout mode in MainStage
- Work with screen controls
- Overview of screen controls in MainStage
- Screen control types
- Add screen controls to a layout
- Copy and paste screen controls in MainStage
- Move screen controls in MainStage
- Resize screen controls in MainStage
- Align and distribute MainStage screen controls
- Adjust the shelf for a shelf screen control in MainStage
- Group screen controls in MainStage
- Delete screen controls in MainStage
- Assign hardware controls to screen controls
- Edit screen control parameters
- Editing screen control parameters in MainStage
- Lift and stamp screen control parameters in MainStage
- Reset screen control parameters in MainStage
- Common screen control parameters in MainStage
- Keyboard screen control parameters in MainStage
- MIDI activity screen control parameters in MainStage
- Drum pad screen control parameters in MainStage
- Waveform screen control parameters in MainStage
- Selector screen control parameters in MainStage
- Text screen control parameters in MainStage
- Background screen control parameters in MainStage
- How MainStage passes through MIDI messages
- Export and import layouts in MainStage
- Change the aspect ratio of a layout in MainStage
- Perform live with MainStage
- Before performing live with MainStage
- Use Perform mode in MainStage
- Select patches in performance
- MainStage screen controls in performance
- Tempo changes in MainStage during performance
- MainStage tips for performing with keyboard controllers
- MainStage tips for performing with guitars and other instruments
- Tune guitars and other instruments with the MainStage Tuner
- The MainStage Playback plug-in in performance
- Record your performances in MainStage
- After the performance with MainStage
- MainStage tips for complex hardware setups
- MainStage preferences
- Use the Touch Bar with MainStage
- Keyboard shortcuts and command sets
- Overview of MainStage keyboard shortcuts and command sets
- Keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage concerts and layouts keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage patches and sets (Edit mode) keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage editing keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage actions keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage parameter mapping (Edit mode) keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage channel strips (Edit mode) keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage screen controls (Layout mode) keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage Perform in Full Screen keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage window and view keyboard shortcuts
- A table of MainStage Help and support keyboard shortcuts
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- MainStage actions
190MainStage User Guide
A table of MainStage patches and sets (Edit mode) keyboard
shortcuts
Includes keyboard shortcuts for adding, selecting, exporting, and importing patches
and sets.
Default keyboard shortcut Function
Option-Command-N Add a new patch
Option-Command-S Add a new set
Command-I Import patches or sets
Command-E Export patch, export set, or export as set
(depending on what is selected)
Command-Up Arrow Select the previous patch
Command-Down Arrow Select the next patch
Command-Left Arrow Select the first patch in the previous set
Command-Right Arrow Select the first patch in the next set
Option-Shift-Command-S Create a new set from selected patches
Option-Shift-M Move the selected patch again
Option-Shift-Command-R Reset program change numbers
A table of MainStage editing keyboard shortcuts
Includes keyboard shortcuts for cutting, copying, pasting, and other common
editing functions.
Default keyboard shortcut Function
Command-Z Undo the last command
Shift-Command-Z Redo the last undone command
Command-X Cut
Command-C Copy
Command-V Paste
Command-D Duplicate
Command-A Select all