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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 75
Use parameter mapping graphs
Each parameter mapping has a Parameter graph. You can edit the graph to remap input values
to dierent output values for the parameter.
Open the Parameter graph for a mapping
m In the tab for the mapping or in the Mappings tab, double-click the Graph button for the
mapping you want to edit.
The Parameter graph window opens. The title of the graph window shows the parameter name.
For information about editing graphs, see Work with graphs on page 62.
Map screen controls to all channel strips in a patch
When you map a screen control to a channel strip parameter such as volume or pan, you can
map it to control the same parameter in all of the channel strips in the patch. This is particularly
useful when you want to control the overall volume of a layered sound, even if the dierent
layers are played across multiple keyboards.
Map a screen control to all channel strips in a patch
1 Map the screen control to a common screen control parameter, such as volume or pan.
2 In the column on the left of the Parameter Mapping browser, select the Send to All folder.
3 Select the destination from the second column.
4 Select the parameter to map the screen control to from the third column.
You can map the screen control to actions for transposing software instrument channel strips,
channel strip parameters, and MIDI control message types from the Destinations folder. When
you map a screen control to all channel strips in a patch, the parameter to which the screen
control is mapped changes to the same value for all channel strips in the patch when you move
the screen control.
Note: When you map a drum map using Send to All, the Send to All folder contains MIDI notes,
not controllers.
Undo screen control parameter mappings
You can undo parameter mapping if you decide you do not want to keep the mapping. When
you undo parameter mapping, all mappings created in the current Learn mode (either by
pressing Command-L or clicking the Map Parameter button) session are undone.
Undo parameter mappings
m Choose Edit > Undo (or press Command-Z).
Remove screen control mappings
If you want a screen control to be free of any mappings, you can remove its existing mapping.
This can be useful with controls that pass through MIDI messages (for example, for pitch bend
and modulation wheels, or expression pedals) when you do not want them to send MIDI
messages for their pass-through control type. You do not need to remove the mapping for a
screen control when you remap it.
Reset the mapping for a screen control
1 In the workspace, click the screen control you want to map.
2 In the column on the left of the Parameter Mapping browser, click None.










