And seamless Patch switching lets you hold a chord in one sound while moving to a new Patch. With Multimapping, you can map multiple parameters to a single control, so you can smoothly manipulate your sound without trying to turn several knobs at once. Start walking a bass line up the keyboard, and the split point moves up so the bass doesn’t suddenly become some other sound when you get into the higher notes. It intelligently moves the split point on a split keyboard Patch to respond to what you’re playing. For starters, there’s the Floating Split Point.
MainStage is not only an amazing host for software instruments and effects, it’s also packed with innovations that let you shine on stage. Or bring the authentic sounds of a Hammond B3 organ, Hohner Clavinet D6, or Fender Rhodes or Wurlitzer electric piano on stage. Use Retro Synth to re-create your favourite electronic sounds from the ’70s and ’80s with an intuitive set of controls. And Chord Trigger allows you to press a single note and have it trigger an entire complex chord. The Arpeggiator features note-based remote controls and flexible latch modes. To turn other instruments off, hover the mouse over the instrument name in the “Input” row shown in step 7 and select the power button that appears on the left.Take your performance beyond what you can actually perform. If any other instruments in the Channel Strip are on, then they will play with the newly installed instrument.
The instrument is now playable via MIDI input. In this case I am selecting the Black Grand Medium Ambience 1. Select the instrument drop down menu as shown in the following image and select the instrument that you installed. If the window does not appear, click once on the center of the Input instrument drop down box that you just selected where it now displays “EXS24”. This will be in the Channel Strips portion of the window.Ī window will appear for the EXS24 Instrument as shown in the following image. Select the “Instrument” drop down box in the “Input” column of the newly created instrument as shown below. MainStage 3 cannot be open during installation or it must be restarted.Īdd a new channel by selecting the “+” button in the upper right hand corner.Īdd 1 instrument with the settings shown in the following image.
For this tutorial, I am creating a new concert using the Keyboard template. This app has up to 1800 units and results in patches MainStage 3 makes it easy to bring all the same instruments and effects to the stage A new concert created from the template opens in a full screen window I go through every patch in the list patch so you can hear all the different presets that are already set Singomakers are back with volume. Open MainStage 3 and create a new concert or open an existing one.
Dell Canada and Apple Canada, plus retailers including Costco. Place the instrument folder like the one shown in step 1 into the “Sample Instruments” folder. A lot of the main-stage acts are bands that played some of the smaller stages on Warped. The “Audio Music Apps” and “Sampler Instruments” folders should have been created when MainStage 3 was installed, however they should be created if they do not exist. The full file path to the Sampler Instruments folder is /home/current_user/Music/Audio Music Apps/Sampler Instruments, where “current_user” is the name of the user’s profile. Within the “Music” folder, open the “Audio Music Apps” folder, and then the “Sampler Instruments” folder as shown in the following image.
Go to your user home folder and open the “Music” folder. In this case, the instrument is the Sampletekk Black Grand Medium Ambience. The instrument folder that you need will contain files ending in “.exs” and another folder containing all of the individual audio samples.
Installing EXS24 Instruments in MainStage 3.ĭownload your instrument and unzip all files.
Used in this tutorial was MainStage 3.0.3 and Mac OSX 10.9.3 This tutorial is for installing and using EXS24 instruments in MainStage 3. (This obviously will not account for external sample libraries like Kontakt or Ivory but will keep all your EXS24 instruments together.) You can do this in MainStage by clicking File. MainStage has a Consolidate feature, which copies all the EXS24 samples used into the Concert package. Now, a thing that peopla are a bit unaware of, is the fact that you can load your EXS24 instruments into Mainstage! Here's a short tutorial written by John Maroli. A simpler method might be just backup up the concert file. It's packed with instruments, effects and other goodies. Mainstage is a great application, (only available for Mac), that turns your Mac into a workstation to use both live and in recording situations.