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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 53
Filter MIDI messages
You can lter some MIDI messages for a channel strip in the Channel Strip Inspector. When you
select one or more MIDI message types in the Filter section of the Channel Strip Inspector, the
corresponding MIDI message types are ltered out of any incoming MIDI data and are not sent
to the channel strip.
You can lter the following types of MIDI messages:
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Pitch Bend
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Sustain (control message 64)
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Modulation (control message 1)
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Expression (control message 11)
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Aftertouch
Filter incoming MIDI messages
1 In the Channel Strip Inspector, click the MIDI Input tab.
2 In the Filter section of the MIDI Input tab, select the checkbox for the MIDI messages you want
to lter.
If you have created a controller transform, you can lter the input message type, and the
controller transform will still send its output message type. It is also possible to lter the output
message type, but in this case the output of the controller transform will be ltered.
Scale channel strip velocity
You can scale the output velocity of a channel strip using the Velocity Scaling graphs. You can
scale output velocity based on note input or input velocity.
When you perform velocity scaling, each input velocity (regardless of the note being played) is
scaled to the output velocity.
When you perform note scaling, output velocity is scaled depending on the note in the key
range. This is useful when you want to have a parameter change in dierent parts of the key
range; for example, when a lter or attack parameter opens for higher note values to give a
brighter, sharper sound.
Open a velocity scaling graph
1 In the Channel Strips area, select the channel strip on which you want to perform
velocity scaling.
2 In the Channel Strip Inspector, click the MIDI Input tab.
3 In the MIDI Input tab, do one of the following:
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To open the velocity input graph: Select the Velocity Input button.
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To open the note input graph: Select the Note Input button.
For information about editing the graph, see Work with graphs on page 62.










