User Manual
Table Of Contents
- MainStage User Manual
- Contents
- An Introduction to MainStage
- Setting Up Your System
- The MainStage Interface
- Getting Started With MainStage
- Before You Begin
- Choosing a Concert Template
- Selecting and Playing Patches
- Adding a Patch
- Renaming a Patch
- Adding a Channel Strip to a Patch
- Changing a Channel Strip Setting
- Learning Controller Assignments
- Mapping Screen Controls to Parameters
- Trying Out Full Screen and Perform Modes
- Customizing the MainStage Window
- Working With Concerts
- Working in Edit Mode
- Working With Patches in Edit Mode
- Working With Channel Strips in Edit Mode
- Selecting Channel Strips
- Choosing Channel Strip Settings
- Resetting a Channel Strip
- Editing Channel Strips in MainStage
- Renaming a Channel Strip
- Choosing the Channel Strip Color
- Changing the Channel Strip Icon
- Showing Signal Flow Channel Strips
- Creating Keyboard Layers and Splits
- Setting the Velocity Range and Offset
- Creating Controller Transforms
- Filtering MIDI Messages
- Deleting Channel Strips
- Mapping Screen Controls
- Working With Sets in Edit Mode
- Working at the Set Level
- Overriding Concert- and Set-Level Mappings
- Sharing Patches and Sets Between Concerts
- Working in Layout Mode
- Performing Live With MainStage
- Key Commands
- Setting MainStage Preferences
- Index
Chapter 3 The MainStage Interface 19
Layout Mode
Layout mode is where you customize your onscreen layout and make connections
between your MIDI hardware and the screen controls in your concert. You drag screen
controls into the workspace and arrange them onscreen to customize your layout, then
make controller assignments between your MIDI hardware and the screen controls.
In the Layout Inspector, you can edit layout parameters to customize hardware
assignments and modify the visual look of screen controls.
 Layout Inspector: View and edit parameters for screen controls in the workspace,
including hardware assignment and appearance parameters.
 Panel Controls and Shelf Controls palettes: Drag screen controls from either palette
into the workspace to add them to your onscreen layout. Panel controls appear
surrounded by a flat panel in the workspace, while shelf controls appear on an
adjustable three-dimensional shelf.
In Layout mode, unlike the other modes in MainStage, you can’t select or edit
individual patches. You can play and hear the last selected patch as you work on your
layout.
Layout Inspector
Panel Controls Palette Shelf Controls Palette