Document Outline

• MainStage 3 User Manual
• Contents
• Chapter 1:  Introducing MainStage
  • What is MainStage?
  • MainStage for keyboard controllers
  • MainStage for electric guitars
  • MainStage for vocals, drums, and other instruments
  • How to use MainStage in your music setup
  • MainStage in live performance
• Chapter 2:  Set up your system
  • Setup overview
  • Connect MIDI devices
    • MIDI devices overview
    • Connect a USB music keyboard
    • Connect MIDI keyboards and modules
    • Multichannel MIDI devices
    • Turn off internally generated sounds
  • Connect audio devices
    • Audio devices overview
    • Connect a microphone
    • Connect an electric instrument
    • Connect an audio interface
    • Speakers and other audio devices
  • Effects plug-ins and MainStage
• Chapter 3:  The MainStage interface
  • The MainStage window
  • Layout mode
  • Edit mode
  • Perform mode
  • Resize the workspace
• Chapter 4:  Get started with MainStage
  • Before you start
  • Choose a template
  • Select patch settings in the Patch Library
  • Add a patch
  • Select and play patches
  • Add a channel strip
  • Change a channel strip setting
  • Learn a controller assignment
  • Map a screen control
  • Try out Perform mode
  • Use Quick Help
• 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
    • Layers and splits overview
    • Define the key range
    • Set floating split points
    • Set the velocity range
  • Work with graphs
  • Create controller transforms
  • Work with plug-ins in Edit mode
    • Work with plug-ins overview
    • Add and remove plug-ins
    • Move and copy plug-ins
    • Use Channel EQ
    • Use plug-in settings
    • Adjust plug-in parameters
    • Use other plug-in window controls
  • 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
    • Assignments and mappings overview
    • Create and delete assignments and mappings
    • Edit assignments and mappings
    • Edit Hardware Input parameters
    • Block incoming controller messages
  • 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
    • Work with sets overview
    • Create sets
    • Rename sets
    • Set the time signature for sets
    • Change the tempo when you select a set
    • Change the tuning for sets
    • Collapse sets in the Patch List
    • Override concert-level key ranges for a set
    • Delete sets
    • Add a channel strip at the set level
  • 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
    • Tempo overview
    • Tap the tempo
    • Get the tempo from MIDI Input
  • 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
    • Concert level overview
    • Control the overall volume of a concert
    • Add concert-wide effects
    • Use auxes to control channel strip output
    • Add channel strips at the concert level
    • The MainStage clock
  • Control the metronome
• Chapter 7:  Work in Layout mode
  • Layout mode overview
  • Work with screen controls in Layout mode
    • Screen controls overview
    • Screen control types
    • Add screen controls to a layout
    • Copy and paste screen controls
    • Move screen controls
    • Resize screen controls
    • Align and distribute screen controls
    • Adjust the shelf for a shelf control
    • Group screen controls
    • Delete screen controls
  • Assign hardware controls to screen controls
    • Controller assignments overview
    • Knob assignments
    • Button assignments
  • 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
    • Select patches in performance overview
    • Select patches using key commands
    • Select patches by typing
    • Select patches using actions
    • Select patches using program change messages
  • 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
    • Add a Playback plug-in
    • Add an audio file to the Playback plug-in
    • Set the Sync mode for the Playback plug-in
    • Choose the flex mode for the Playback plug-in
    • Add screen controls for the Playback plug-in
    • Tips for using the Playback plug-in
    • Assign Playback plug-ins to groups
• Appendix B:  The Loopback plug-in
  • Loopback plug-in overview
  • The Loopback interface
  • Loopback waveform display
  • Loopback transport and function controls
  • Loopback information display
  • Loopback Sync, Snap To, and Play From parameters
  • Use the Loopback group functions
  • Loopback Action menu
  • Add a Loopback plug-in
• Appendix C:  MainStage preferences
  • Preferences overview
  • General preferences
  • Audio preferences
  • MIDI preferences
  • Display preferences
• Appendix D:  Key commands
  • Concerts and layouts
  • Patches and sets (Edit mode)
  • Editing
  • Actions
  • Parameter mapping (Edit mode)
  • Channel strips (Edit mode)
  • Screen controls (Layout mode)
  • Perform in Full Screen
  • Window and view
  • Help and support
• Appendix E:  MainStage actions
  • Actions overview
  • Table of actions