MainStage 3.4.3

MainStage 3.4.3

MainStage 3 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 X.

The Ultimate Live Rig

• Perform live with more than 80 instrument, effect, and MIDI plugins or work with Audio Units plugins
• Add your sounds from Logic Pro X 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 plugins
• Perform with stereo or multitrack backing tracks using Playback
• 64bit 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 plugins
• Use USB and MIDIequipped 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, fullscreen 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 highcontrast, fullscreen performance view

Instrument Plug-ins

• Play deeply sampled, professionally mixed, and fully customizable drum kits provided by Drum Kit Designer
• Perform electronic beats with the Ultrabeat drum machine
• Play classic ’70s and ’80sstyle 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
• Quickly find sounds or create unique new ones with Alchemy, the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer
• Play or create a wide variety of rich sampled instruments with the EXS24 Sampler
• Turn your favorite hardware synthesizers into sampled instruments using the Auto Sampler plugin

MIDI Plug-ins

• Transform simple ideas into elaborate performances using nine MIDI plugins
• 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 realistic acoustic spaces using Space Designer convolution reverb
• Use a range of multitap, vintage tape, and stereo delays
• Add movement to your tracks with a variety of modulation effects
• Get the perfect mix with a collection of 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 fullscreen Tuner to quickly get in tune

Sound Library

• Over 1800 instrument and effect Patches
• More than 750 meticulously sampled instruments
• 4600 Apple Loops in modern urban and electronic genres

Minimum System Requirements

• Requires 64bit Audio Units plugins
• 6GB available disk space for minimum install / 57GB hard disk for full Sound Library installation

Compatibility: OS X 10.12 or later

Web Site: http://www.apple.com/mainstage/

Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/mainstage-3/id634159523?mt=12

What’s New in MainStage 3.4.3

• This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes