MainStage

MainStage is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform, all in one simple plan.

 

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

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