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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 7 Work in Layout mode 104
Grouped controls
Grouped controls consist of individual controls that are grouped together to make them easier
to work with as a single unit. Grouped controls include:
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Selector grouped with increment and decrement buttons
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Keyboard grouped with mod wheel, pitch bend wheel, and sustain pedal
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Sustain and expression pedals
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Organ drawbars
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Guitar amp controls
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Guitar pedal controls
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Arrays of knobs and faders with uniform size and spacing
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Eects and tone control knobs
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Arrays of level meters and VU meters
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Arrays of parameter text displays
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Master output fader grouped with stereo level meter
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Arrays of drum pads
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Transport controls for use with Playback plug-in
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Channel strip controls
The rst time you add a custom grouped control to the Screen Controls palette, the
My Grouped Controls tab appears in the palette. You can add custom grouped controls and
name them so they will be accessible from every concert. For information about adding custom
grouped controls to the Screen Controls palette, see Group screen controls on page 109.
Add screen controls to a layout
Add common screen controls
In Layout mode you can quickly add screen controls to your layout and arrange them in
the workspace.
You can drag screen controls into the workspace in any order. If you plan to perform with a
keyboard controller, you might want to rst drag a keyboard screen control into the workspace,
position it near the center, and then drag screen controls for the faders, knobs, wheels, buttons,
and other physical controls on the keyboard controller.
Add a screen control
m Drag the screen control from the Screen Controls palette to the workspace.
As you drag the screen control to the workspace, a white outline appears, showing where it
will be added. You can use the alignment guides to align the screen control with other items in
the workspace.
When you drag a screen control into the workspace, the control is selected, and the available
hardware assignments and other parameters for the screen control appear in the Screen Control
Inspector to the left of the workspace. Dierent types of screen controls have dierent
parameters, which are described in Edit screen control parameters on page 113 .










