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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 6 Work with concerts 90
Set the time signature for a concert
You can set the time signature for a concert. Time signatures can be used with the Playback
plug-in and also aect the operation of the metronome. When you set the time signature for a
patch or set, it overrides the concert-level time signature while the patch or set is selected. When
you select a patch or set without a time signature, it uses the concert time signature.
Set the time signature
1 In the Concert Inspector, select the Has Time Signature checkbox.
2 Double-click the number in the eld at the right, and enter the number of beats for one measure
of the time signature.
3 Choose the beat value from the pop-up menu at the right.
Use tempo in a MainStage concert
Tempo overview
Each concert has a tempo, which you can change in dierent ways while you are performing.
Some plug-ins available in MainStage, including delay and tremolo eects, synthesizer LFOs, and
the metronome, can require a specic tempo. You can set the initial tempo for a concert and
change the tempo by selecting a patch or a set with its own tempo setting. You can also change
the tempo in real time by tapping a new tempo or have MainStage receive tempo changes from
incoming MIDI messages.
When you open a MainStage concert, the tempo setting in the Concert Inspector is used until
you change the tempo by selecting a patch or set with its own tempo setting or by tapping a
tempo. When you change the tempo, MainStage uses the new tempo until you change it again
or until you close the concert.
You can set the tempo for a concert in the Concert Inspector, which appears in the lower-left
corner of the MainStage window when the concert icon is selected in the Patch List. By default,
the tempo for new concerts is set to 120 beats per minute (bpm).
Set the tempo for a concert
1 In the Patch List, select the concert icon.
2 In the Concert Inspector, set the tempo using the Tempo slider or value slider.
Set the tempo
by dragging the
Tempo slider or using
the value slider.
You can use patches and sets to change the tempo when you select the patch or set while
performing. For information about patch tempo settings, see Change the tempo when you select
a patch on page 40. For information about set-level tempo settings, see Change the tempo when
you select a set on page 84.