MainStage 4+

Live rig for musicians

Apple

    • 4.6 • 11 Ratings
    • $49.99

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Description

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 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 favourite 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 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 synthesisers into sampled instruments using the Auto Sampler plug-in
• Quickly find sounds or create unique new ones with Alchemy, the ultimate sample manipulation synthesiser
• Play classic 1970s- and 1980s-style synthesiser 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 modelling synthesis
• Play deeply sampled, professionally mixed, and fully customisable 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 synthesised 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 5,900 instrument and effect patches
• 1,200 meticulously sampled instruments
• 14,750 Apple Loops in a wide range of genres

Storage Requirements
• 6GB available disk space for minimum install / 72GB hard disk for full Sound Library installation

What’s New

Version 3.6.6

This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
11 Ratings

11 Ratings

AndyNK_86 ,

Logical and Reliable

Mainstage is the backbone of our bands live set. Synths, Drum sounds, Guitar amps/effects, Loops, Vocal effects. The song by song layout is key to it's usablilty and is something Ableton and others just dont have. Been using Mainstage live on stage for the last 5 years and haven't had it crash once during a performance.

Verzhun ,

Great piece of software

For when it comes to play multiple different synths using different sets and patches nothing beats this product. I used it to fill the backline in a deathcore / DJENT band in NZ and it is an amazing peice of kit. Definitely worth the money! you wont find anything this good for the price it is.

Fine Lui ,

Annoying off tune

Hi, I using mainstage 3.3.2 and is out of tune, so annoying. Already check my midi and tunning it back to 440 but still the same. I Reset and make new patches but still the same. Please fix this ASAP, or tell me what to do.

Thanks

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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