Your dream gig awaits. Now you can take your performance beyond what you can actually perform. The Arpeggiator features note-based remote controls and flexible latch modes. And Chord Trigger allows you to press a single note and have it trigger an entire complex chord. Or bring the authentic sounds of a Hammond B3 organ, Hohner Clavinet D6, or Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, or Hohner electric piano on stage. Alchemy brings epic sound that rivals the best hardware keyboards to the stage — with a massive collection of presets and real-time morphing controls at your fingertips. Get virtually any sound, with virtually no gear. Thanks to MainStage, you can play live with all the great tones from Amp Designer, Bass Amp Designer, and Pedalboard, along with any of your favorite Audio Units guitar effects. Seamless Patch switching lets notes and chords trail off naturally when you switch Patches. And MainStage supports the Apogee GiO USB audio interface and foot controller, which lets you operate the Pedalboard, wah, rotary speaker effects, and Playback plug-in — hands-free. Do it all — and keep right on singing. MainStage lets you stay focused on your performance. Keep your hands free by using foot pedals to control the effects you add to your voice. And display large, high-contrast notes such as lyrics and chord changes on your screen. So all you have to think about is singing. The total performance package. Love the sound you got on your recording? MainStage 3 makes it easy to bring all the same instruments and effects to the stage. You can even expand your show with prerecorded backing tracks. With Mac as the core of your live rig, setup is faster, teardown is faster, and everything in between is more reliable. And you can easily use your favorite hardware to control every nuance of your performance. The MainStage and Smart Controls interface is designed especially for live performance. You get a full-screen, high-contrast, and high-resolution Retina display—supported view of your controls, so they stand out from across the stage. And you can set things up so each control is linked to a different parameter in each Patch. With just the controls you need onscreen for your song, you'll never have to hunt for the right knob. With MainStage, setting up your stage rig is faster than ever. Start by choosing from a complete range of performance templates, many of them preloaded with great-sounding Patches. Or look to the all-new Patch Library to find a Patch or sound ready to be tweaked to perfection. The Patch Library also gives you access to all your Patches from 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. Use your favorite hardware. MainStage supports your addiction to knobs, buttons, and faders. It can connect with just about any external MIDI device on the planet. And the interface is simplicity itself. No more assigning knobs over and over for each preset. Edit your sounds quickly and easily. Creating sounds with your Mac is so much simpler than relying on all kinds of external gear. Instead of squinting at tiny hardware displays, you get a bright, full-screen view that makes everything easy to tweak. You can also combine any sounds you like — even software and hardware sounds — in one Patch. Multimapping allows one knob to control multiple plug-in parameters, so you can dramatically change your sound with the turn of a single knob. The EXS editor opens right in MainStage, making it easier to edit sampler instruments on the fly. And the Patch List editor gives you the flexibility to rearrange or skip Patches as your set list evolves. And features in the Mixer make it easier to open, close, bypass, or reorder plug-ins. No need to reach for a modifier key. Smart, fast, efficient use of your Mac. For example, the EXS sampler can put huge amounts of data to work for a single instrument by using all of the available memory in your Mac. And if you ever run into a problem, Autosave lets you get back up and performing in no time. Grouped Controls let you drag and drop entire sets of knobs, buttons, faders, meters, and more into your layout. From there, you can easily customize the number, type, size, and color of all your controls. You can even decide what each control does for each Patch. Alignment guides snap everything into place. And Lift and Stamp features let you quickly copy characteristics from one layout and apply them to another. You can save parts of your layouts as Grouped Controls and reuse them in other layouts. And put your Patches in any order and change them on a whim. Synths look like synths and Vintage B3 Patches bring up organ drawbars. MainStage features ReWire and MIDI-out support. That means everything you use to perform is right on your Mac, giving you total control. Each Patch works as a self-contained audio mixer and router, so you can completely change direction mid-performance. One minute you can be playing some heavily distorted guitar with a full backing band. And the next you can be creating bass loops with an external synth against an Ultrabeat drum pattern.
