MainStage Lets keyboardists, guitarists, and musicians perform with software instruments and effects through a full-screen GUI
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MainStage Description

Lets keyboardists, guitarists, and musicians perform with software instruments and effects through a full-screen GUI Built for live performance, MainStage lets guitarists, keyboardists, and other musicians perform with software instruments and effects through a full-screen interface designed specifically for the stage. Here are some key features of "MainStage": Revolutionary 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 Requirements: · At least 2GB of RAM for large EXS instruments. · USB musical keyboard, control surface, or guitar pedal board (or suitable MIDI control device and interface). · Standard graphics card in any Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac with Intel Core Duo, Power Mac G5, or iMac G5. What's New in This Release: · This update improves overall performance and provides numerous fixes and enhancements, including the Loopback and Playback plug-ins. Issues addressed include: · The Reverse option for Loopback now behaves consistently · Pitchbend data is transmitted properly to external instruments · A recording in Loopback can be used to define the tempo for MainStage · The I/O plug-in is now available in MainStage · Improves CPU performance of audio channels when feedback protection is turned off. · The update is recommended for all users of MainStage 2.

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