MainStage 4+
Live rig for musicians
Apple
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- £29.99
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Description
MainStage lets you take your Mac to the stage with a full-screen interface optimised 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 favourite 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 customisable, 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 favourite 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 modelling synthesis
• Play deeply sampled, professionally mixed and fully customisable 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
What’s New
Version 3.6.6
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
ACCESS ALL LOGIC PLUGINS INSTRUMENTS & AUTOSAMPLER
I bought LOGIC when it came out in the early nineties and loved it right up until it merged with Garage Band. I actually hate the interface. So now I use Ableton or FL Studio for programming and treat them like hardware sampler or synthesisers then move to BitWig to record audio. What I miss out on is a superb sound library and some very familiar plugins. Main Stage is your access to everything in LOGIC without the dumbed down interface. I generally use Networked MIDI and run it on a second machine and patch the audio. It's actually easier to do it in Main Stage than in LOGIC. So I get all the keyboards. I get the guitar rigs and effects. I get all the plugins and it's a also really good way to run AU plugins to free up CPU. Anyone using any other sequencer than LOGIC should buy this. Anyone playing live should buy this. It's access to the best part of the LOGIC experience. It's always been stable for me, even when running it via IAC on the same machine.
Ignore the negative reviews
If you intend to rely upon a tool for a mission critical task, you have to do everything you can to ensure you fully understand it and how to operate it so it is stable and reliable.
I used to use five keyboards and a mixing console. There wer constant problems, masses of maintenance, and a difficult setup to transport and assemble. My Korg Triton Extreme 88 used to lock up sometimes. Cable noise, hum, mains issues - I got fed up with it.
I've used Mainstage for the past 8 years, on stages all over Europe, in front of audiences of thousands. The only problems I have encountered have been related to external factors, NOT to the software. They have been rare. Mainstage has been solid, even if external interfaces, cables, controllers, and on one occasion the Macbook, have caused issues.
Ensure you have reliable hardware, and USE MAINSTAGE.
Interesting
An interesting mix of reviews here.
Logic Mainstge has been a game changer for me in many ways including; studio to stage transfer as a Musical Director of big pop gigs.
It has made touring so much easier as I dont have to cart 6 keyboards around and can work with one or two.
Pop a back up of your Mainstage set on a clone drive or better still a clone mac and you cant go wrong, even lob a copy of you set one on Dropbox and on the tech's mac for the super paranoid.
In 8 years of using Mainstage Ive never encountered and issue that hasnt been somehow accountable to school boy error or hardware.
This many complaints about the update makes me hesitate to download the update.
If it aint broke ..... to much at stake when you are in front of 50k folk.
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Information
- Provider
- Apple Distribution International
- Size
- 1.1 GB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2007-2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- £29.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.