Whether you sing or play a keyboard, guitar, or another instrument, you can use MainStage when you perform live. Using a USB or MIDI keyboard controller, you can play a wide variety of software instruments, including pianos and other keyboards, synthesizers, strings, horns, percussion, and more. Using an iPad, you can also play software instruments, and control other aspects of MainStage, using the Logic Remote app.
If you play electric guitar, you can play through virtual amps and use effects such as overdrive, reverb, and compression. Vocalists, drummers, and other musicians can sing and play with multi-effects setups using a microphone. In MainStage, you organize and access your sounds in concerts. In a MainStage concert, individual sounds are stored as patches , and each patch can contain one or more channel strips, each with its own instruments and effects.
You can add channel strips, choose channel strip settings, add instruments and effects, and edit their parameters to customize your sounds. You can even mix channel strips of different types in a single patch.
You organize patches for a concert in the Patch List, which includes grouping them into sets , which are folders where you can store patches you want to keep together. Each concert includes a visual interface, called a layout , with screen controls that you use to modify your patches in live performance. Screen controls include keyboards, faders, knobs, buttons, pedals, drum pads, and other hardware controls and displays.
Like Logic Pro, MainStage is also used in a variety of different ways in the entertainment industry. Nine Inch Nails uses MainStage for real-time vocal effects during live performances. MainStage has also become the standard for keyboard programmers and electronic music designers on Broadway.
Below are some general guidelines to follow. And the interface is simplicity itself. No more assigning knobs over and over for each preset.
MainStage also features pickup modes that make fixed controller knobs behave more like the endless encoder knobs found on high-end gear. If your control surface can receive status information from software, MainStage will send MIDI messages to keep your control displays in perfect sync.
MainStage lets you record any audio signal passing through. MainStage turns your Mac into a musical instrument, voice processor, or guitar rig, so you can get studio-level sound on stage — without all the extra equipment. MainStage gives you an easy-to-understand view of your sounds with a customizable layout that displays exactly what you need for your live performance, minus the clutter of dozens of plug-ins and small mouse-operated controls.
You can use the knobs on your keyboard to remote control the sounds in MainStage — so your performances can be faster, smoother, and easier. Creating sounds with your Mac is so much simpler than relying on all kinds of external gear. Instead of squinting at tiny hardware displays, you get a bright, full-screen view that makes everything easy to tweak. You can also combine any sounds you like — even software and hardware sounds — in one Patch.
Multimapping allows one knob to control multiple plug-in parameters, so you can dramatically change your sound with the turn of a single knob. And the Patch List editor gives you the flexibility to rearrange or skip Patches as your set list evolves. And features in the Mixer make it easier to open, close, bypass, or reorder plug-ins. No need to reach for a modifier key. Auto Sampler quickly and easily transforms your hardware synths into sampled instruments that you can play from your Mac.
Your keyboard rig just got a whole lot simpler to set up and manage. The single-window design is backward compatible with all EXS24 files, making it easier than ever to perform with sampler instruments. An expanded synthesis section with sound-shaping controls brings more depth and dynamics to your instruments, while the reimagined mapping editor adds powerful, time-saving features.
And instantly build sophisticated instruments using new drag-and-drop hot zones. Grouped Controls let you drag and drop entire sets of knobs, buttons, faders, meters, and more into your layout. From there, you can easily customize the number, type, size, and color of all your controls. You can even decide what each control does for each Patch. Alignment guides snap everything into place. And Lift and Stamp features let you quickly copy characteristics from one layout and apply them to another.
You can save parts of your layouts as Grouped Controls and reuse them in other layouts. And put your Patches in any order and change them on a whim. Synths look like synths and Vintage B3 Patches bring up organ drawbars. That means everything you need perform is right on your Mac, giving you total control. Each Patch works as a self-contained audio mixer and router, so you can have total control over each sound.
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