Apple MainStage 3

Built for live performance, MainStage lets keyboardists, guitarists, and other musicians perform with software instruments and effects through a full-screen interface designed specifically for the stage.

Interface:

• Full-screen performance view optimized for the stage.

• Windowed performance view for simultaneous operation of multiple applications.

• High-resolution, resizable 3D graphics.

• Dynamic lighting highlights screen controls in use.

Sounds for the Stage:

• Perform using the entire selection of Studio Instruments.

• Process audio using all appropriate effect plug-ins from Studio Effects.

• Audio Units support for all third-party plug-ins.

• Up to 32 total keyboard layers per Patch, with up to 8 layers per split.

• Floating keyboard splits that dynamically adjust during a performance.

• Channel strip setting crossfades for blending between sounds with a single controller move.

• Busses for advanced audio routing, submixing, and effects processing.

• Signal Flow view displays all channel strips within a selected audio signal path.

• Full-screen software tuner for guitars and basses.

• Tap tempo using any MIDI or USB controller device or your computer keyboard.

• Receive tempo from incoming MIDI clock messages.

• Professional templates featuring extensive combinations of instruments and effects.

• Seamless patch switching during performance without disrupting sound output or held notes.

• Patch selection via MIDI program change messages.

• CPU, MIDI input, and memory displays embedded in the MainStage toolbar.

Hardware Integration:

• Hardware compatibility with any MIDI or USB controller.

• Automatic device detection for many popular controller devices.

• Automatic controller assignments for recognized devices.

• Layouts to assign controllers to specific parameters, then reassign controllers when equipment changes.

• Learn function for fast assignment of MIDI hardware.

Performance Customization:

• Save and load full performance setups in the form of Concerts.

• Organize sections of your performance by grouping Patches into Sets within Concerts.

• Import and export Sets, Patches, and Layouts to customize Concerts.

• Concert-level or Patch-level parameter mapping.

• Parameter mapping via browser or direct selection from the plug-in interface.

• Load and save channel strip settings for use in MainStage and Logic Pro.

• Browser for searching and loading channel strip settings.

• Contextual Inspectors that provide editing options according to mode and object selected.

• Customizable Patch icons.

• Resize, group, lock, and color functions for screen controls.

• Customizable toolbar.

• Keyboard transposition.

• Velocity range and velocity offset options on a per-channel strip basis.

• MIDI controller transformations:

  • Expression Scaling.

  • Modulation.

  • MIDI Volume.

  • Breath Control.

• MIDI message filtering on a per-channel strip basis:

  • Pitch Bend.

  • Modulation.

  • Aftertouch.

  • Sustain.

  • Expression.

• Broad range of customizable screen controls, including the following:

  • Keyboard.

  • Mod/Pitch Wheel.

  • Sustain Pedal.

  • Foot Pedal.

  • Foot Switch.

  • Round Knob.

  • Directional Knob.

  • Vertical Fader.

  • Horizontal Fader.

  • Button.

  • Drum Pad.

  • Meter.

  • Parameter Text Box.

  • Free Text Box.

  • Patch/Set Selector.

  • Image Box.