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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 5 Work in Edit mode 42
If you edit a program change number so that it is the same as an existing program change
number, the word “Duplicate” appears in red next to the Program Change value slider. If two or
more patches have the same program change number, and the numbers are active, the patch
that appears rst (highest) in the Patch List or patch selector is selected when you send the
program change message with the corresponding value.
Using Reset Bank and Program Numbers sets the bank automatically based on sets. This allows
you to browse sets using bank select numbers, and browse patches using program change
numbers, to access a large number of patches.
You can assign buttons and other controls to send program change messages and use
them to select patches in the concert. For information about assigning buttons, see Button
assignments on page 112 .
Defer patch changes
By default, when you switch patches, the new patch is ready to play immediately. You can “defer”
a patch change so that the patch change occurs after the last note of the previous patch has
been released or sustained.
Defer a patch change
m In the Attributes tab of the Patch Inspector, select the Defer Patch Change checkbox.
Note: Deferring patch change works in Perform mode but does not work when you are editing
patches in Edit mode. You can defer incoming MIDI program changes and buttons mapped
to actions but not defer patch changes made by clicking the Selector object or using the
arrow keys.
Instantly silence the previous patch
Sometimes you may want the sound of the previous patch to continue after you select a new
patch, as when you want to sustain a chord pad while soloing over it. At other times, you may
want to silence the sound of the previous patch instantly when you select a new patch.
Instantly silence the previous patch when you select a patch
m In the Attributes tab of the Patch Inspector, select the Instantly Silence Previous Patch checkbox.
Change patch icons
Each patch has an icon that appears in the Patch List next to the patch name. By default, the
patch icon shows the type of channel strip created when the patch was added. You can choose a
new icon for a patch and use icons to visually distinguish patches in the Patch List.
Change the icon for a patch
m In the Attributes tab of the Patch Inspector, choose an icon from the Icon pop-up menu.










