![]() ![]() ![]() There is a hierarchy that exists to allow you to have consistency across your sounds, and allow for diversity within patches at the same time. Essentially, anything you create and set at a higher level overrides whatever you set at a lower level. Select the entire concert in the browser, then create a reverb channel, that reverb is now available for every single patch in the entire concert. If you select a patch, however, and add a channel, then whatever you created is only available for that patch. This is incredibly helpful if you want to create global adjustments. I’ll often put some EQ controls at the top level. If I determine at sound check that the venue isn’t being kind to a certain frequency, I don’t have to go into each individual patch to make adjustments. I can simply tweak the sound at the concert level and the adjustments apply across all of my patches. Using aliases is one of the most powerful features of MainStage, and it also helps to make your computer better mimic the behavior of a patch/combi setup of a keyboard workstation. Basically, you can use aliases to create ‘pointers’ that direct MainStage to utilize a previously created patch or channel strip.Īt the channel strip level, this can be helpful to utilize a common sound throughout various combinations and layers. Let’s say you’ve created a concert that has a piano sound, then you also make a bunch of patches that have layers on top of it-piano and strings, piano and organ, piano and choir, etc. Now imagine you’re at the gig, and you decide the piano you chose is far too bright for the venue you’re in. You’ll have to go back into every patch and change the piano sound for all of them. You don’t have to worry about this if you’re using aliases. By creating your first piano sound, then copying it and pasting it into every other utilized sound as an alias, your new patches are all simply pointing to the piano sound instead of creating their own new piano sound. Adjust the original piano sound, and all of the aliases follow suit. To create an alias, simply copy something, then go to the ‘edit’ menu and select ‘paste as alias’. You can do this with an entire patch, or you can do this with individual elements within a patch like a channel strip. ![]() One of the coolest things about MainStage is the ability to have just about anything on your physical keyboard control any element of your sounds and plugins. MainStage does, however, often have a bunch of default routing options enabled-and don’t forget that many plugins simply respond to MIDI channels on their own, no help from MainStage required! Routing is a pretty simple process, as you can use MainStage to ‘learn’ what to do with each physical control on your keyboard. ![]()
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