MainStage

Description

MainStage lets you take your Mac to the stage with a full-screen interface optimized for live performance, flexible hardware control, and a massive collection of plug-ins and sounds that are fully compatible with Logic Pro. The Ultimate Live Rig • Perform live with 100 instrument, effect, and MIDI plug-ins or work with Audio Units plug-ins • Add your sounds from Logic Pro and GarageBand to bring your studio sound to the stage • Support for the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro provides convenient controls for layout, editing, and performance • Combine instruments and live audio, such as keyboards and vocals, in a single Patch • Switch between Patches without stopping sound output or cutting off held notes • Design rich keyboard Patches using splits and layers, the Arpeggiator, and other MIDI plug-ins • Perform with stereo or multitrack backing tracks using Playback • 64-bit architecture uses all the RAM in your system for larger sampled instruments Hardware Control • Connect your favorite hardware and use it to play and control your plug-ins • Use USB and MIDI-equipped controllers like keyboards, foot pedals, and drum pads • Instantly set up a large variety of hardware using automatic device recognition • Quickly assign hardware knobs, buttons, and faders to onscreen controls • Manage sophisticated rigs using the Assignments & Mapping overview Designed for the Stage • See only what you need during your performance using a customizable, full-screen live interface • Screen controls adapt for each Patch using Smart Controls • Smart Controls offer dynamic performance controls that change with each Patch • Easily view your Mac screen from a distance using a high-contrast, full-screen performance view Instrument Plug-ins • Play or create a wide variety of rich sampled instruments with Sampler and Quick Sampler • Turn your favorite hardware synthesizers into sampled instruments using the Auto Sampler plug-in • Quickly find sounds or create unique new ones with Alchemy, the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer • Play classic ’70s- and ’80s-style synthesizer sounds using Retro Synth • Play faithful models of vintage keyboards with Vintage B3, Vintage Electric Piano, and Vintage Clav • Perform inspired sounds using a collection of synths that provide analog, wavetable, FM, additive, granular, spectral, and modeling synthesis • Play deeply sampled, professionally mixed, and fully customizable drum kits provided by Drum Kit Designer • Perform electronic beats with the Ultrabeat drum machine MIDI Plug-ins • Transform simple ideas into elaborate performances using nine MIDI plug-ins • Instantly turn a simple chord into a rich performance with the Arpeggiator • Play a single note to trigger predefined chords with Chord Trigger • Perform a part and conform notes to a specific scale using Transposer Creative and Production Effects • Play your sounds through a variety of realistic acoustic spaces or creative synthesized reverbs • Use a range of multi-tap, vintage tape, and stereo delays • Add movement to your tracks with a variety of modulation effects • Get the perfect mix with a collection of vintage and modern EQs, dynamics, and other mixing tools Guitar and Bass Gear • Build your own guitar or bass rig with Amp Designer using vintage and modern amps, cabinets, and mics • Design a custom Pedalboard from a collection of delay, distortion, and modulation stompboxes • Access a full-screen Tuner to quickly get in tune Sound Library • Over 4300 instrument and effect Patches • More than 1800 meticulously sampled instruments • 10000 Apple Loops in a wide range genres Storage Requirements • 6GB available disk space for minimum install / 72GB hard disk for full Sound Library installation

Reviews

Decent update but with bugs

CPU performance is way better than last update, but pedalboard and amp sim tones and GUI is old and is in serious need of an update. Performance view has a bug where buttons don't work with mouse or trackpad, please fix.

By Jeremy M. Stone

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not working anymore

i downloaded the latest update and non of my patches were able to launch in mainstage 3. Then it stoped opening, now it cant open. please fix this

By Jay abusa

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Please... Update?

I'm going with 2 stars because the latest updates to Logic Pro instruments are NOT here! PLEASE!!!!! Update so they match! The instruments in Logic are SO much better now! PLEASE!!!!

By trptgk

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Needs an update

Somehow Mainstage is wreaking havoc on my entire system's performance after it runs. Quitting doesn't help. Resources do not appear to be consumed. Seeing that the last update was 7 months ago is not encouraging.

By nordlu

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I use it live all the time

People ask me what I'm running all the time because the tonewheel organ sound is so good. I just want the ability to run two different keyboards easily, so I can do a Rhodes Hammond setup and switch one out at a time (e.g. if I want to use a grand piano, or do both manuals of an organ)

By superlarry

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NOT GOOD ANYMORE!

I don't know what's going on but since my macbook updated to macOS Catalina MainStage has been a disaster. NOT GOOD ANYMORE! Do not waste your 30 bucks on this.

By djaplushaiti | Rob Marcelin

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Incredibly Powerful Software!

Love this app and have used it for years! It has allowed me to bring my live-keys playing to the next level. FEATURE REQUEST: Please consider adding MIDI Bussing within mainstage! It'd be SO handy to pass midi through a software instrument channel strip with Midi FX and bus it to another channel strip! More specifically, the ability to have MidiFX on a patch-level Instrument channel strip and send midi through those effects and then to another software instrument channel strip at the concert level! This would be a game changer for a lot of pro users.

By Trevor7968

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Terrible and terrible service from App store

Very buggy. Brand new Macbook Pro and the files have a clicking sound each time I use them. Doesn't happen with any other software or midi files so I'm sure it is this. Reported the problem and tried to get a refund from App store. They denied it with no explanation. Thanks for nothing Apple.

By dasweb

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Parameter Value

Mainstage is awesome for what it is and very versatile for live performance. There seem to be some bugs. For instance I am unable to keep parameter values using the "Keep" setting or even the "reset" setting. It doesn't sync up or save correctly. When you reboot a few times it will seem to work for a while but it's a minor thing to worry about.

By R-Nick85

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It was cool...

I purchased Main Stage 3 a couple years ago (maybe?) and it used to work and everything. Now I deleted it awhile ago to save some room until i could get an external HD. So, Now i want to redownload it and when i click it it does the load wheel for 3 seconds and wont download. I tried customer service and FAQ's but there is no way to report my issue. I would like to be refunded for the app since it doesn't work anymore, or have it fixed on the app store so I can re-download it.

By neisud sjdjd

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