MainStage

MainStage

By Apple

  • Category: Music
  • Release Date: 2013-07-16
  • Current Version: 4.0
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 963.19 MB
  • Developer: Apple
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.6 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 over 100 instrument, effect, and MIDI plug-ins or your favorite 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 favorite 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 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 • Perform inspired sounds using a collection of synths that provide analog, wavetable, FM, additive, granular, spectral, and modeling 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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Reviews

  • Works Great but shuts down randomly

    3
    By rishelvelasco
    I love Mainstage and using Sunday Sounds however it shut down randomly sometimes during practice and it closed down on me TWICE IN A LIVE PERFORMANCE! Super stressful. They definitely need to fix that.
  • Thank you for continuing to bring new features and updates for those of us who BOUGHT MainStage!

    5
    By Princejron
    Thank you for continuing to bring new features and updates for those of us who BOUGHT MainStage!
  • DECEPCIONADO

    1
    By Cachete1966
    Tantas veces que escuche a personas decir que usaban MainStage. Y ahora que lo uso es una total decepción. Tendré que usarlo por razones operativas de la banda con la que voy a trabajar pero es un desastre. Los sonidos son buenos y hay en cantidad pero ni se te ocurra cargar linternas externas de otras compañías porque allí se complica todo. A veces cargan a veces no. A veces cargan a medias y suenan apenas… eso al final te genera una desconfianza total del sistema. Hace mucho tiempo usaba Hipersonic de Steinberg para tocar con controladores en vivo pero era muy limitado. Regrese después a teclados hardware tipo Kronos, M3, Motif etc para tocar en vivo sin ningún tipo de stress o problemas. Aparte que los pre de salidas de esos teclados son super potentes. No tiene sentido depender solo de los sonidos que trae el Main Stage… deberían aclarar que NO SE RECOMIENDA USAR PLUGINS EXTERNOS… Ninguno..!!! pues no son estables en el sistema. Agradezco la perdida de tiempo tratando de solucionar esto. En realidad en lo que pueda configuro algo distinto, mas flexible y sobre todo ESTABLE.!!!!
  • Current version 3.7.1 is trash - previous were great

    2
    By theKeets
    Unfortunately the current version is painfully slow even on a fast M3. They need to fix this.
  • No MIDI backing tracks or video support

    1
    By imightreview
    I really wanted this to work for live performance, as I am currently using Logic, and looking for options that can play back tightly synchronized video, and automatically sync to the tempo of the audio tracks, and play synchronized MIDI backing tracks (both notes and controllers), and easily rearrange the set of songs, even minutes before a gig, knowing that tempo sync and lighting will follow. MainStage seems more like a way to play Logic plugins live, along with some additional audio. While there are some hacks for "sending" a MIDI file and using AppleScript to play videos externally, they don't work well. Logic still doesn't even have a method for exporting a MIDI region as a MIDI file with a starting time of 0 / Bar 1, Beat 1, so that also complicates things. Exporting song 15 in my current Logic set has MIDI data starting at bar 2181, with over an hour of silence before any data! So you have to move each region to Bar 1, Beat 1 before exporting. Bummer, I really wanted this to work! And with Apple's existing resources, it seems pretty simple to play back synchronized video, audio, and MIDI from a playlist.
  • **FEATURE REQUST** I NEED 2 SEPARATE PATCH LISTS FOR 2 SEPARATE MIDI KEYBOARDS!

    2
    By DJX-RAY89
    PLEASE ALLOW 2 SEPARATE PATCH LISTS FOR 2 KEYBOARDS!
  • Last update error

    1
    By Lilair4
    Last update is breaking my MainStage, overloaded cpu consistently and I only have one keyboard and one patch that’s it, and it’s going close to 100, fix it!!!!
  • Missing Studio Instruments

    2
    By jkayvon
    This app has not been updated in quite a long time and is missing the new studio instruments found in Logic Pro. Please add them.
  • Multi tempo backing tracks not supported…

    1
    By CaptainFearful
    Shockingly for a performance software, that supports virtual instruments and backing tracks, MainStage 3.6.6 does not support more than one tempo. Not sure what kind of music only has one tempo (well, I do know, but I’m not interested in that music). It seems to me that this is the primary purpose for MainStage.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • Need New Updates

    2
    By TJWilson1223
    I wish MainStage would be updated to be able to use some of the new logic features such as the new Studio Piano VST

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