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Table Of Contents
- MainStage 3 User Manual
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introducing MainStage
- Chapter 2: Set up your system
- Chapter 3: The MainStage interface
- Chapter 4: Get started with MainStage
- Chapter 5: Work in Edit mode
- Edit mode overview
- Work with patches in Edit mode
- Select items in the Patch List
- Copy, paste, and delete patches
- Reorder and move patches in the Patch List
- Create a patch from several patches
- Set the time signature for patches
- Change the tempo when you select a patch
- Set program change and bank numbers
- Defer patch changes
- Instantly silence the previous patch
- Change patch icons
- Change the tuning for a patch
- Work with channel strips in Edit mode
- Channel strips overview
- Show signal flow channel strips
- Show the metronome channel strip
- Create an alias of a channel strip
- Add a patch bus
- Channel Strip Inspector
- Choose channel strip settings
- Rename channel strips
- Change channel strip colors
- Change channel strip icons
- Use feedback protection with channel strips
- Work with software instrument channel strips
- Use the EXS24 mkII Instrument Editor in MainStage
- Use multiple instrument outputs
- Use external MIDI instruments in MainStage
- Delete channel strips
- Create keyboard layers and splits
- Work with graphs
- Create controller transforms
- Work with plug-ins in Edit mode
- Map screen controls
- Screen controls overview
- Map screen controls to channel strip and plug-in parameters
- Map screen controls to actions
- Map a screen control to multiple parameters
- Edit the saved value for a mapped parameter
- Set drum pads or buttons to use note velocity
- Use parameter mapping graphs
- Map screen controls to all channel strips in a patch
- Undo screen control parameter mappings
- Remove screen control mappings
- Work in the Assignments and Mappings tab
- Edit screen control parameters in Edit mode
- Screen control parameters in Edit mode overview
- Replace parameter labels
- Choose custom colors for screen controls
- Change the appearance of a background or grouped screen control
- Set screen controls to show the hardware value
- Set parameter change behavior for screen controls
- Set hardware matching behavior for screen controls
- Reset and compare changes to a patch
- Override concert- and set-level mappings
- Work with sets in Edit mode
- Share patches and sets between concerts
- Record the audio output of a concert
- Chapter 6: Work with concerts
- Open and close concerts
- Save concerts
- How saving affects parameter values
- Set the time signature for a concert
- Use tempo in a MainStage concert
- Define the source for program change messages
- Set the pan law for a concert
- Change the tuning for a concert
- Silence MIDI notes
- Mute audio output
- Work at the concert level
- Control the metronome
- Chapter 7: Work in Layout mode
- Layout mode overview
- Work with screen controls in Layout mode
- Assign hardware controls to screen controls
- Edit screen control parameters
- Screen control parameter editing overview
- Lift and stamp screen control parameters
- Common screen control parameters
- Keyboard screen control parameters
- MIDI activity screen control parameters
- Drum pad screen control parameters
- Waveform screen control parameters
- Selector screen control parameters
- Text screen control parameters
- Background screen control parameters
- How MainStage passes through MIDI messages
- Export layouts
- Import a layout
- Change the aspect ratio of a layout
- Chapter 8: Perform live with MainStage
- Before the performance
- Use Perform mode
- Select patches in performance
- Screen controls in performance
- Tempo changes in performance
- Tips for performing with keyboard controllers
- Tips for performing with guitars and other instruments
- Tune guitars and other instruments with the Tuner
- The Playback plug-in in performance
- Record your performances
- After the performance
- Tips for complex hardware setups
- Appendix A: The Playback plug-in
- Playback plug-in overview
- The Playback interface
- Use the Playback waveform display
- Playback transport and function buttons
- Playback information display
- Playback Sync, Snap To, and Play From parameters
- Use the Playback group functions
- Use the Playback Action menu and File field
- Use markers with the Playback plug-in
- Use the Playback plug-in in a concert
- Appendix B: The Loopback plug-in
- Appendix C: MainStage preferences
- Appendix D: Key commands
- Appendix E: MainStage actions
Chapter 6 Work with concerts 100
Important: When you start the MainStage clock, the audio engine is reset, causing a brief
interruption in the audio output from MainStage. In some cases, you may want to start the
MainStage clock at the beginning of a song or performance and use screen controls mapped
to individual plug-in parameters to start and stop those plug-ins to avoid an interruption in the
audio output while you are performing.
Control the metronome
MainStage features a metronome that you can use to play in time with the concert tempo. The
metronome always plays at the current tempo of the concert.
You can start the metronome in one of several ways, and change the audio output for the
metronome sound, the sound of the metronome, and the volume of the metronome relative to
the overall audio output.
Start the metronome
Do one of the following:
m Click the Metronome button in the toolbar.
m Click a button mapped to the Metronome action.
m If you are using a Playback plug-in, click the Metronome button in the Playback window (or click
a button mapped to the Metronome button).
Click any of the listed buttons again to stop the metronome.
Note: Starting the metronome also starts the MainStage clock if it is not already running.
By default, the metronome sound is routed to the main outputs (Output 1-2). You can route the
metronome to another output pair, which can be useful in performance when you want to hear
the metronome sound through a separate audio output (for example, a headphone mix) and not
through the main outputs. You can also choose a dierent sound for the metronome.
Change the audio output for the metronome sound
1 Choose MainStage > Preferences.
2 In the Metronome section of the General tab, choose a dierent audio output from the Output
pop-up menu.
Change the relative output of the metronome sound
1 Choose MainStage > Preferences.
2 In the Metronome section of the General tab, drag the volume slider left or right to adjust the
relative volume of the metronome sound.
Change the sound of the metronome
1 Choose Show Metronome Channel Strip from the Channel Strips Action pop-up menu.
2 Open the Klopfgeist plug-in from the Instrument menu on the Metronome channel strip.
3 Choose a dierent metronome sound.