MainStage

MainStage

By Apple

  • Category: Music
  • Release Date: 2013-07-16
  • Current Version: 3.6.6
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 1.00 GB
  • Developer: Apple
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 13.5 or later.

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 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

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Reviews

  • The most useless App ever created

    1
    By Ooogsaafholsten
    What in the actual joke is this App? It is literally just a more obnoxious blown up version of a track in Logic Pro. Unless you are literally a monkey in a literal zoo, this app is poo pooo poooo.
  • UNEXPECTEDLY QUITS PROGRAM

    2
    By Simonmackbook pro
    Mainstage desing verry well But The Bugs Need to bi fix on 3.6.4 PLease fix the bugs
  • I LOVE MAINSTAGE!!!!!

    5
    By guitars&saxes
    i use mainstage weekly as my guitar rig. The amps and effects that I am able to replicate would cost a years pay. The space and time needed to set up a rig with multiple amps and effects would be to much. this app gives me all that for a mere $30, plus it does so much more. I'm a multi instramentalist. I also play saxophoneand i have a solo show. Mainstage allows me to have backing tracks and effects chains for my sax. For me the versatlity of this app for a performing musician is only limited to the imagination. I have only had few issues such as changing or not saving a parameter but this doesnt happen often and for me does not deminish the experience much.
  • Keeps crashing!!!

    2
    By jas617
    PLEASE FIX!
  • Not user friendly

    1
    By Sch Psy
    If you are trying to use midi controlers with assignable components (just about all of them) the unassigned components cannot be mapped to the interface. This software is essentially worthless.
  • very good

    5
    By Jude aka KB
    jirueiorigreiogapafugipoqut8p9er6y905458590yw5986-508-w9rutpuriugirjgiodruyiryurogurorpiuurptytiyuwtptruy M A I N S T A G E I S C O O L
  • best for me

    5
    By quinzonj
    I'm using for my guitar and keys, awesome software
  • DO NOT UPDATE!!!!!!

    1
    By Retro Daddio
    This latest update makes both Mainstage and Logic unusable. Apple has become a sad shadow of what they used to be with their total lack of quality control. They should be ashamed of putting untested garbage updtates out that not only look bad for them, but ruin the workflow of people who rely on them for work, but that would look bad for investors. I remember when Apple cared more aboput their customers than stockholders. Thanks Tim for ruining a once great iconic company! I guess I will switch to Ableton. Atleast they care about quality.
  • Latest update is terrible! FIX MAINSTAGE!!!!!!!!

    1
    By dodvid
    I mainly use Mac for my Mainstage concert. Previously, I had MacBook Pro 2015 and I thought it was time to get a new computer since Mainstage was running kinda slow. Here I am, buying newest 2021 MacBook Pro on M1 Pro chip hoping everything would work smoothly. As soon as I open Mainstage everything crashes, and it keeps crashing everytime I play a concert. This is TERRIBLE!!! Apple, fix it!!!
  • integrating samples

    3
    By Lilair4
    why cant all the samples just be saved into the file like logic does. doesnt make sense that you have to go into each audio sample and save it a certain way in order to be consolidated into one file

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