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
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7 Working in Layout Mode
You visually arrange your onscreen layout and make
connections between your music hardware and MainStage
in Layout mode.
You can’t change the position of faders, knobs, and other controls on your instruments
or other music hardware, but you can arrange the screen controls in your MainStage
concert in any order you like by editing the layout. You can modify an existing layout or
create one from a template, and you can export a layout and import it into another
concert.
Each concert template included with MainStage includes a built-in layout, optimized
for a type of musical instrument, genre, or purpose.
You modify the layout of a concert in Layout mode. You can add and organize screen
controls to match your music hardware, optimize your display size, and make
assignments between controls on your MIDI hardware and the screen controls in your
concert.
To switch to Layout mode, do one of the following:
m Choose View > Layout (or press Command-1).
m Click the Layout button in the Toolbar.
The MainStage window switches to Layout mode.
In Layout mode, the workspace features a grid to help you align and organize screen
controls. Below the workspace, the Panel Controls and Shelf Controls palettes appear,
with different types of screen controls you can add to your layout. The Layout Inspector
appears to the left of the workspace, where you can make controller assignments and
edit layout parameters.