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Revolutionary 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
