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.