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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 117
Selector screen control parameters
You can use selector screen controls to display and select patches and sets, or to display and
select markers in audio les used by a Playback plug-in. You can edit the following parameters
for selector (patch or marker selector) screen controls.
Appearance
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View Patches and Sets button: When active, both patches and sets are shown in the selector.
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Dual Column Display checkbox: When selected, sets are displayed in the left column and
patches are displayed in the right column.
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Patches or markers button: When active, only patches are shown in the selector.
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Items to Display value slider: Set the number of items (lines) visible in the selector.
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Color selector: Choose the color for selected items in the selector.
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Set Justication buttons: Click to set whether sets are left, center, or right justied in
the selector.
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Patch Justication buttons: Click to set whether patches are left, center, or right justied in
the selector.
Text screen control parameters
You can edit the following parameters for text screen controls after adding text to the text eld.
Text Parameters
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Font button: Select text, click the Font button to show the Font menu, then choose the font,
style, color, and size.
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Alignment buttons: Select whether the selected text is left, right, or center aligned, or justied.
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Text eld: Enter the text you want to display onscreen.
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Show frame around text checkbox: When selected, a darker frame appears around the text,
showing the borders of the screen control.
Background screen control parameters
You can use backgrounds for grouped controls. You can edit the following parameters for
background screen controls.
General
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Name eld: Enter a name for the grouped control in the Name eld.
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Description eld: Enter a description for the grouped control in the Description eld.
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Panel button and well: Click the Panel button, then choose a panel or texture for the
background from the menu that appears.
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Image button and well: Click the Image button, then drag an image into the well to use it for
the background.
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Select button: Click to open an Open File dialog to browse and select an image.
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Stretch to Fit checkbox: When selected, the image stretches to ll the area of the background as
completely as possible.










