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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 105
Mod/pitch wheel screen controls
When you add mod/pitch wheels to a layout, by default they are congured to receive the
following MIDI message types:
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The rst mod/pitch wheel is congured to receive pitch bend messages.
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The second mod/pitch wheel is congured to receive modulation messages.
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The third mod/pitch wheel is congured to receive aftertouch messages.
By default, modulation and pitch bend screen controls pass through the MIDI messages for
their common use—that is, mod wheels pass through MIDI modulation messages, and pitch
bend wheels pass through MIDI pitch bend messages. In most cases this is desirable so that
you can use them for their standard functions without any additional setup. If you want to use
these screen controls to control other parameters, choose “Do not pass thru” from the MIDI Thru
pop-up menu in the Screen Control Inspector.
Foot pedal screen controls
When you add a foot pedal to a layout, by default the rst foot pedal you add is congured
to receive expression messages, and the second foot pedal you add is congured to receive
volume messages.
By default, expression pedal screen controls pass through the MIDI messages for their common
functions (expression or volume). If you want to use an expression pedal screen control to
control another parameter, choose “Don’t pass thru” from the MIDI thru pop-up menu in the
Screen Control Inspector.
Copy and paste screen controls
You can copy and paste screen controls using the standard OS X menu items and
key commands.
Note: You cannot copy a panel control and a shelf control at the same time.
Paste a copy of a screen control
Do one of the following:
m Press Command-C to copy the selected screen control, then press Command-V to paste a copy.
m Option-drag the screen control to a new location in the workspace.
Add multiple instances of the same screen control in a row or column
1 To create the rst copy, Option-drag the screen control.
2 To create additional copies of the screen control, choose Edit > Duplicate.
The duplicated screen controls appear oset by the same amount as the rst copy.
Duplicate additional
copies in a row.
Option-drag the selected
screen control.










