MainStage User Guide

• Welcome
• Get started with MainStage
  • Getting started overview
  • MainStage window
  • Patches in MainStage
  • Channel strips in MainStage
  • Assignments and mappings
    • Learn a controller assignment
    • Map a screen control
    • Create assignments and mappings together
  • Layouts in MainStage
  • Perform mode in MainStage
  • Quick Help in MainStage
• MainStage basics
  • What is MainStage?
  • MainStage workflow basics
  • MainStage interface overview
    • The MainStage window
    • Layout mode
    • Edit mode
    • Perform mode
    • Customize the MainStage window
      • Customize the toolbar
      • Resize the workspace
      • Show or hide working areas
  • Download additional sound packs
  • Subscribe to Apple Creator Studio
    • What is Apple Creator Studio?
    • Subscribe
  • How to get help
• Connect external devices
  • Overview of connecting external devices
  • Connect MIDI devices
    • Overview of connecting MIDI devices
    • Connect a USB music keyboard
    • Connect MIDI keyboards and modules
    • Connect multichannel MIDI devices
    • Turn off internally generated sounds
  • Connect audio devices
    • Overview of connecting audio devices
    • Connect a microphone
    • Connect an electric instrument
    • Connect an audio interface
    • Connect speakers
• Work in Edit mode
  • Overview of Edit mode
  • Work with patches
    • Select patches and sets in the Patch List
    • Copy, paste, and delete patches
    • Reorder and move patches in the Patch List
    • Add and rename patches
    • Create a patch from several patches
    • Work with patch settings
      • Overview of the Patch Settings Inspector
      • Select patch settings in the Patch Library
      • 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
      • Transpose the pitch of incoming notes for a patch
      • Change the tuning for a patch
      • Add text notes to a patch
  • Work with channel strips
    • Overview of channel strips
    • Add a channel strip
    • Change a channel strip setting
    • Configure channel strip components
    • Show signal flow channel strips
    • Hide the metronome channel strip
    • Create an alias of a channel strip
    • Add a patch bus
    • Set channel strip pan or balance positions
    • Set channel strip volume levels
    • Mute and solo channel strips
    • Use multiple instrument outputs
    • Use external MIDI instruments
    • Reorganize channel strips
    • Delete channel strips
    • Work with channel strip settings
      • Overview of the Channel Strip Inspector
      • Choose channel strip settings
      • Rename channel strips
      • Change channel strip colors
      • Change channel strip icons
      • Use feedback protection with channel strips
      • Set keyboard input for a software instrument channel strip
      • Transpose individual software instruments
      • Filter MIDI messages
      • Scale channel strip velocity
      • Set channel strips to ignore Hermode tuning
      • Override concert- and set-level key ranges
      • Add text notes to a channel strip in the Channel Strip Inspector
  • Work with plug-ins
    • Overview of working with plug-ins
    • Add and remove plug-ins
    • Search for plug-ins in a channel strip
    • Move and copy plug-ins
    • Use Channel EQ
    • Use plug-in settings
    • Adjust plug-in parameters
    • Use other plug-in window controls
  • Route audio via send effects
  • Create keyboard layers and splits
    • Overview of layers and splits
    • Define the key range
    • Set floating split points
    • Set the velocity range
    • Bypass a layer
    • Copy and paste layer properties
  • Work with articulations
    • Managing articulations overview
    • Choose an articulation from the plug-in window header
    • Manage articulations with the Articulation Set menu
    • Manage articulations with the Articulation Set Editor
    • Turn all articulations on or off
  • Edit screen control parameters
    • Screen Control Inspector overview
    • Replace parameter labels
    • Choose custom colors for screen controls
    • Change background or grouped screen control appearance
    • 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
  • Map screen controls
    • Overview of mapping screen controls
    • Map to channel strip and plug-in parameters
    • Map screen controls to actions
    • Map a screen control to multiple parameters
    • Use screen controls to display PDF document pages
    • Edit the saved value for a mapped parameter
    • Set drum pads or buttons to use note velocity
    • Map screen controls to all channel strips in a patch
    • Undo screen control parameter mappings
    • Remove screen control mappings
  • Work with graphs
  • Create controller transforms
  • Work in the Assignments and Mappings tab
    • Overview of assignments and mappings
    • Create and delete assignments and mappings
    • Edit assignments and mappings
    • Edit Hardware Input parameters
    • Block incoming controller messages
  • Work with sets
    • Overview of working with sets
    • Create sets
    • Rename 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
    • Work with set settings
      • Overview of the Set Settings Inspector
      • Set the time signature for sets
      • Change the tempo when selecting sets
      • Choose a color for the set folder in the Patch List
      • Transpose the pitch of incoming notes for a set
      • Changing the tuning for sets
      • Add text notes to a set
  • Share patches and sets between concerts
  • Record the audio output of a concert
• Work with concerts
  • Overview of concerts
  • Create a concert
  • Open and close concerts
  • Save concerts
  • How saving affects parameter values
  • Clean up concerts
  • Consolidate assets in a concert
  • Rename the current concert
  • Work with concert settings
    • Overview of the Concert Settings Inspector
    • Set MIDI Routing to channel strips
    • Transpose incoming note pitch for a concert
    • Define the program change message source
    • Send unused program changes to channel strips
    • Set the time signature for a concert
    • Change the tuning for a concert