To ensure that you are working with valid patch content, you must run a catalog update job before you run a patch job. How to import patches in logic pro x or mainstage 3 to install patches. This week i show you how to use mainstage patches in logic pro. Considerations for transferring sounds mainstage to logic. I have my patches set up for the k2500s to send a patch change to mainstage. Ive wanted to make a studio tour video for a while now, and i finally cleaned up the place. I have tried using mainstage for the last 18 months. Does anyone here know if it is possible to change the default tuner mode of mainstage to use the vumeter style of the plugin instead. Hard drive users username music audio music apps patches instrument copy all. Mainstage tutorial troubleshooting midi connections in. Often, we think of a set as a list of songs, but id encourage you to think of it simply as a grouping in mainstage.
What the op seems to be asking for is a sequencer to run alongside mainstage, as mainstage lacks the timeline that logic has. I realize this is a harsh statement but i have been trying to use mainstage professionally with little success. Mainstage is not professional software logic pro help. While i use the moxf for most of the sounds in my rig, mainstage adds organ b3 and the leslie, various es2 and retrosynth patches, exs24 for custom samples like the vocal bass part in mark ronsons uptown funk, which i created in logic using about 8 tracks of my vocals pitched down. They will then show up in the patch library tab at the bottom of mainstage in user patches. Recording your performances in mainstage linkedin learning. I always enjoy watching behind the scenes types of videos and seeing how people use the gear that they use. Sunday keys mainstage template worship patches and. Jul 16, 20 mainstage 3 is a live performance companion app for logic pro. The sound library, augmented by alchemy, is also a powerful source of inspiration thanks to patches that allow for rich layers of instruments and effects and smart controls that let you easily shape any sound. If you asked this question in frustration, trust me, i feel you.
For both types of repositories, online and offline, you create a patch catalog using the bmc server automation console. Sunday guitar mainstage template worship patches and. For those that are not familiar with mainstage, it is a live performance software that is based off logic. If an update is available, click the update button to download and install it. I cant say more because im still running logic pro 6. Mainstage is not professional software fri jan 10, 2014 5. This chapter provides a brief guided walkthrough you can follow the first time you open mainstage. Heres some mainstage 3 tips for you guys, also answering some of the questions ive been. And if you do not like computers and software or do not trust them, you can skip it all. We were already using mainstage to trigger samples, my keyboard sounds, etc.
Of course, the logic node facility provides a way of employing a second mac as a processor slave, but there are restrictions on what type of track can be processed. Is ipad really better for live performance than a macbook pro. We help worship teams around the world sound their best. In my case the problem was that i had both layers and splits in many of my mainstage patches.
Our vision is excellent and authentic worship in every church in the world. Apple introduces logic pro x and mainstage 3 engadget. Choosing logic x for live performance over mainstage. Rocky mountain sounds specializes in fresh new sounds for spectrasonics omnisphere and apple mainstage logic pro x. Just save your live set as a project and mainstage puts all the necessary files into a single folder you can take with you anywhere. If you dont have the budget for omnisphere, then the next move would be to get apple mainstage. The complete guide to using your ipad and logic remote to control mainstage. Getting started with ultimate mainstage collection 4. Discover new and popular worship songs, albums and artists and download affordable tracks for worship leaders. How to install patches in logic pro x or mainstage 3 that worship. The kaiser chiefs certainly seem to trust roger, for he has been working with them.
Patches are added to the catalog as depot objects according to filters that you define for the catalog. Im heading out on tour with a major act, love using my laptop setup, need rocksolid stability, am not interested in receptor, and was just wondering if using logic as a host would be more stable than mainstage, again asuuming no parameter changes just call up the patch and play, then call up the next patch and play. For everything i do live, i use mainstage as my host and run all of my plugins thru it including omnisphere, ivory, ni komplete, etc. The patch library also gives you access to all your patches from logic pro x. It allows you to establish a subset of controls for a specific group of sounds. Once in awhile ill send an email about things that i find interesting. Mainstage offers a lot of different ways to organize your patches, and there are some valuable advantages to each method. Conserve memory when using the same sound in multiple patches in mainstage. Theres a brand new mainstage patch bundle and other great content for mainstage and logic. Note for newer releases that feature multiple patch folders. For this post, i want to share my responses to a recent email.
Discover keyboard sounds and presets from the original artist, as well as patches designed specifically for this song. Core mainstage tutorial using in ear monitors with mainstage after years of dealing with this with my own group eye rhyme, i experimented more with mainstage. How to use mainstage patches in logic pro x youtube. That would have translated to multiple channel strips per mainstage patch, and afaik no way to carry the split information into logic strips keyboard range on a perchannelstrip basis. How to use mainstage patches in logic pro x duration. Find your new sound for live performance and film or game score. Every product elevates our worship environment to a new level and introduces new layers and depths to our soundscape. I use my recording setup to practice songs on a daily basis. As of now, it is only available for the ios device so install the mainstage for pc, follow our guidelines below. Keypleezer releases livingroom upright piano free edition. I dont trust apple any more than i trust native instruments or uhe. There are many 3rd party sequencers out there that will happily run midi only alongside mainstage, and logic may also be used this way. Aus are aus, theyre not proprietary to mainstage, and apples werent even specifically designed for mainstage they were designed for logic.
Sunday keys for mainstage is a worship template full of inspiring mainstage worship patches designed to take your live keys rig to the next level, with inspiring worship pianos, worship pad patc the foundation of your worship keys rig. Mar 18, 2020 make sure youre using the latest version of mainstage 3. Overview thanks for purchasing the ultimate mainstage collection 4. Using good old midi, and some of the techniques we ve already talked about, you can utilise old or redundant systems to good effect. Im hoping to use it to run my rig for theatre, or at least to learn if thats a workflow that i like. Logic pro x also features an entirely new sound library with an updated. Mainstage and logic now work as one integrated production and live. Hey logic users, i am wanting to use logic x for a live set. Volume settings in mainstage patches logic pro help. For more info and to check out the patches mentioned in this video, go to. Mainstage 3 for pc download free windows 7810 and mac. Core mainstage tutorial using inear monitors with mainstage after years of dealing with this with my own group eye rhyme, i experimented more with mainstage.
Understanding the concert, set, and patch paradigm is key to harnessing the power of mainstage. With apples mainstage and logic pro, these scenarios are made simple because any sound created in either can be set up for use in the other. Mainstage gives you a massive collection of plugins and sounds to fuel your creativity. This vocal synth sample library boasts a massive 640 patches and tens of thousands of individual samples that make up everything from aggressive young and free style pop vocal leads to warm ethereal pads and everything in between all created from male and female vocal recordings unique to this. They have become a foundation for what our team does live and in the studio. Vocal synths is a collaboration project from peter james and daniel ferguson. Plus i dont see the size of the folder going up while im downloading the additional content. My family recently moved, and i was fortunate enough to be able to repurpose a spare bedroom for all my worship tutorials stuff. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Use these files to create your custom layered patches in we.
Mainstage users moving their patches to logic will want to keep these things in mind. Novation launchkey 61 usb keyboard controller for ableton. If you are not using worship essentials, then just use the patches. Creative worship sounds provides that worship experience of quality sounds for you creating mainstage 3 patches and logic pro x libraries fully optimized for live performance and studio recordings delivering razor sharp sounds. Lets add some more patches to this template so we can switch between them with midi designer. Patch a patch traditionally refers to a single sound generated by the device. It comes free with logic, so if youve bought logic 8 or 9, whether you know it or not, it will have installed mainstage on your computer. Join julian velard for an in depth discussion in this video, recording your performances in mainstage, part of learning mainstage 3. Choosing logic x for live performance over mainstage gearslutz. Core mainstage tutorial using inear monitors with mainstage. I looked further into it and can see huge spikes in memory usage from individual patches.
Mainstage is a program that has changed the way i work probably more than any other bit of software in the last 10 years, insists roger. Sunday guitar is a doneforyou, worship guitar rig for mainstage 3 that harnesses all the potential of todays audio. Installing mainstage patches from peter james all articles. The macro parameters provide quick access to several linked, related parameters. Choose apple menu app store, then click updates in the toolbar. When moving the mainstage window from a 4k display to another display, the window width now properly adjusts to the new display size. Logic pro x patches are put together by some of the worlds top sound designers using the abundant collection of logic pro x plugins and powerful features like track stacks and smart controls. In mainstage, while this concept is true, it is much more expansive than just a single sound. Logic pro x mainstage 3 turn your mac into a live rig. We have been using that worship sounds products for several years. Integrating outboard hardware with logic sound on sound. Use round robin and the velocity editor in the mainstage auto sampler. Mainstage is a music application designed for use in live performance.
Plus i dont see the size of the folder going up while im. Mainstage no longer quits unexpectedly when selecting all patches. If you are a logic user, then you can easily port your channel strip settings over to mainstage and get that studio quality sound during our performances as well. Trust it all by north point insideout download includes everything you need to play with mainstage using stock sounds only. Buy novation launchkey 61 usb keyboard controller for ableton live, 61note mk2 version. Mainstage is like logic but without the sequencer, id say. Bypass, remove, or rescan thirdparty audio units plugins in logic pro x. Trusted by thousands of churches around the world every weekend. Oct 21, 2010 core mainstage tutorial using inear monitors with mainstage after years of dealing with this with my own group eye rhyme, i experimented more with mainstage. And, while we re at it, i really would prefer to keep my channel strip unmuted whenever i turn on tuner mode. Here is a picture of my mainstage concert in edit mode so you can see the channel strip. Ive always wanted to be able to use my ipad to control mainstage, and apple made it possible to do it with their free logic remote app. How to import patches in logic pro x or mainstage 3 that.
Whats included in this pack is 30 mainstage patches and 15 bonus expansion pack multi patches for the complete worship bundle and complete worship bundle plus products available here. For using mainstage in worship music, i generally create a set for each song in the worship list. Im looking at getting a mac laptop to run mainstage on. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided. What is better for live midi keyboard performance, a macbook pro with mainstage, or an ipad pro newest generation, we ll say the 1tb version that has 6gb of ram with a plugin host aum, audiobus, mididesigner, keystage, pick your poison etc. A logic pro x session file with all worship essentials 2. So my question is can i use those patches to create music in an album that i then sell or is. Using macro controls and assigning controllers in the es2. Before i started using mainstage, i was running a copy of nis b4 organ and. Learn how to access the midi message monitor and some best practices to quickly isolate the issue so you can work to resolve it.
Conserve memory when using the same sound in multiple patches in mainstage use round robin and the velocity editor in the mainstage auto sampler bypass, remove, or rescan thirdparty audio units plugins in logic pro x. I am new to mainstage and would like to use mainstage for my churchs live worship. A exported multilayer patch from mainstage imported into logic seems to lose the first channel strip. Which means that for a 10 song setlist, i will have 10 patches. As you alter any of the macro controls, you will see one, two, or more parameters in the es2 interface update. If you cant record audio after installing macos mojave or later. Something that weve been expecting for quite sometime is. If you create mainstage patches then you get the deep new features introduced in logic. Originally designed to control logic pro, apple blessed us mainstage users by including us in the fun. Ive looked in app supprt logic sample instruments patches etc. And for live performance i generally use a guitar or a mandolin.
Getting started with mainstage you can quickly start working in mainstage by choosing a concert template and trying out the patch settings in the concert. Peter makes patches available for mainstage as well. This also means a mainstage patch is a multitimbral performance in the roland world or a multi in the korg world which means that what a workstation would call a patch is typically a single channel strip sometimes more within the mainstage patch. Mainstage then changes to the selected patch and routes my midi, vis and audio sounds when required. Mainstage turns your computer into a powerful multiinstrument and effects processor that you can use on stage when you perform. I dont come from logic, so when i got mainstage, these apple vis were all new to me, and i was used to other things. I have used logic consistently for 20 years since notator logic 1. Sep 12, 2017 hey folks, in this video we discuss the ins and outs pun intended of troubleshooting midi connections in mainstage 3.
The quickest way to copy these patches and add them to another mainstage or logic x template is to click on the cog like symbol in the top left corner of mainstage and save each patch or set as seen in the screenshot below. Mainstage 3 tips record mainstage patches in logic youtube. Information about products not manufactured by apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by apple, is provided without recommendation or endorsement. To get the mainstage 3 app on your pc, you are going to use an emulator. Transferring sounds between mainstage and logic pro. If you have an elaborate template youve built, feel free to use it instead if youll be following along. That actually worked very well, and we used that method for three years after the kaisers stopped using hardware. Nov 28, 2016 how to create custom patch numbers in mainstage. General mainstage no longer drops out of full screen performance mode when you use a kvm switch to change the display to another computer. Whether you sing or play a keyboard, guitar, or another instrument, you can use mainstage when you perform live. Apr 14, 2016 configuring your mainstage concert files takes some time, and setting things up so that your show runs efficiently and in a stable manner is key for having a successful mainstage experience. And if you ever need to perform with a different mac, you dont have to rebuild everything.
The only way i was able to make it work was to insert a blank channel strip into the mainstage patch and move other channels around until the blank was in the leftmost slot. My primary reason over mainstage, is that i want to have automation controls going on and off during the set so i dont have to mess with any foot pedals. Getting started with ultimate mainstage collection 4 all. Mainstage is a natural extension of that method, but it lets you involve everyone elses plugins as well, and in the show at the moment we use plugins from ni, arturia, and g. A patch in mainstage is a grouping of channel strips and effects, so you can layer multiple sounds and a handful of effects into a single patch. It comes free with logic, so if youve bought logic 8 or 9, whether you know it. When first meddling with mainstage, i would switch from patch to patch to create different sounds. Patch management overview and workflow documentation for.
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