MainStage lets you take your Mac to the stage with a full-screen interface optimised 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 over 100 instrument, effect and MIDI plug-ins or your favourite Audio Units plug-ins
• Add any patches from Logic Pro to bring your studio sound to the stage
• 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
• Perform with stereo or multitrack backing tracks using Playback
Hardware Control
• Connect your favourite MIDI hardware and use it to play and control your plug-ins
• Use USB- and MIDI-equipped controllers like keyboards, foot pedals and drum pads
• 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 customisable, 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 favourite 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
• Perform inspired sounds using a collection of synths that provide analog, wavetable, FM, additive, granular, spectral and modelling synthesis
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
System Requirements: 6GB available disk space for minimum install / 44GB or more storage space for full Sound Library installation
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Midi Player
Bukkysuccess
I have used MainStage for many years as my go to platform for live performance. I have had to switch forth and back between this and a DAW just because of the lack of a midi player. It will be nice to have a Midi Player equivalence of Playback, so we can load, for instance, a midi drum and play exactly same way Playback handles audio files
Good application. Very buggy.
MainstageguyJake
I bought this recently to use on stage with a band. I load up all of my different patches and grouped everything in to different sets. I spent a full day and night working on everything and organising it all so that it was ready to use on stage. The program is good and does exactly what you need it to. Using third party plugins and patches isn’t very intuitive at first but once you work it all out, it’s okay. I was having a good time practicing all of my parts for when we’re finally able to go back on stage and decided this morning to boot up my concert to practice again. Every single time it tries to load the concert, it freezes at the exact same point. I can start new, fresh concerts and load other concerts fine, but the important one, the one that contains all of my presets, will not load. I have cleared the cache for Mainstage, I have restarted the computer, reset DMC. Nothing works. I now have the only option which is to completely redo all of my keyboard sounds and presets. Hours of EQing, changing modulation/delays/reverbs, setting all of my hotkeys, adjusting all of my levels and different keyboard sounds, all of the time spent structuring my different sets so that they are ready to go on gigs. All of that is gone. Countless hours wasted for absolutely NO REASON. Nothing seems to have triggered it, it was completely random. The worst part is I didn’t have a copy saved as I had no indication that this kind of thing could happen on an official Apple program. Embarrassing. I’m now going to spend the rest of today and tomorrow redoing all of my hard work. Such a shame because I was really enjoying Mainstage. Learn from my mistake and ALWAYS save a copy of your concert to another location on your drive.
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funnymachine
I bought LOGIC when it came out in the early nineties and loved it right up until it merged with Garage Band. I actually hate the interface. So now I use Ableton or FL Studio for programming and treat them like hardware sampler or synthesisers then move to BitWig to record audio. What I miss out on is a superb sound library and some very familiar plugins. Main Stage is your access to everything in LOGIC without the dumbed down interface. I generally use Networked MIDI and run it on a second machine and patch the audio. It's actually easier to do it in Main Stage than in LOGIC. So I get all the keyboards. I get the guitar rigs and effects. I get all the plugins and it's a also really good way to run AU plugins to free up CPU. Anyone using any other sequencer than LOGIC should buy this. Anyone playing live should buy this. It's access to the best part of the LOGIC experience. It's always been stable for me, even when running it via IAC on the same machine.
Mainstage review
JMP1986!
The actual app is great. However if you are running a slightly older OS it won't let you update. This means you can not access new features and improved performance. I called Apple support to see if I could upgrade to a higher version supported by my OS which includes the new features I want and was told this was not possible. However I am able to do this with other apps such as Xcode. Very dissapointing. I do not want to upgrade my OS as a musician as when I have in the past it has wiped my whole machine, resulting in weeks of trying to set the mac up again in the same way for music production and performance. Ironically the only way I can see to upgrade my version of mainstage is to illegally download a copy at the version number I need - that is stupid Apple!
• This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes
Also Recently Added:
Support for Ableton Link
• Synchronise tempo with Ableton Link–supported software and hardware devices
Sound Library
• Explore an ever-expanding collection of premium sound packs with the brand-new Sound Library
• Listen to audio previews of any sound packs and install your favourites
• Free up storage space by easily deleting packs you are no longer using
Version 4.2
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