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MainStage 3, was released alongside Logic Pro X on July 16, 2013, as a paid update and available only as a download from the Mac App Store. There is a free iPad companion app available designed for use with Logic Pro X, MainStage 3 and GarageBand, which can act as a hardware controller for various parameters. Logic Pro; GarageBand.
Description
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 plug-ins or work with Audio Units plug-ins
• 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 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 favorite 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 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 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 ’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 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 plug-in
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 realistic acoustic spaces using Space Designer convolution reverb
• 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 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 1800 instrument and effect Patches
• More than 750 meticulously sampled instruments
• 4600 Apple Loops in modern urban and electronic genres
Minimum System Requirements
• Requires 64-bit Audio Units plug-ins
• 6GB available disk space for minimum install / 57GB hard disk for full Sound Library installation
The Ultimate Live Rig
• Perform live with more than 80 instrument, effect, and MIDI plug-ins or work with Audio Units plug-ins
• 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 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 favorite 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 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 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 ’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 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 plug-in
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 realistic acoustic spaces using Space Designer convolution reverb
• 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 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 1800 instrument and effect Patches
• More than 750 meticulously sampled instruments
• 4600 Apple Loops in modern urban and electronic genres
Minimum System Requirements
• Requires 64-bit Audio Units plug-ins
• 6GB available disk space for minimum install / 57GB hard disk for full Sound Library installation
Apple Mainstage 3.4.2
What’s New
This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes
114 Ratings
Update 3.4.1
I LOVED this program before this update. It's VERY buggy, and its hard for me to play my patches for live perfomance now. I hope the developers can fix this soon. However, Mainstage is A GREAT tool for playing all of your created sounds/stems available for the stage. I find it really impressive for the limitless possibilities of how u can set up your virtural rig. This goes for even guitar players, if you're into that sort of thing. I reccomend it for those of you looking to really start somewhere with your ability to perfom sets efficiently, and go through all of your patches, preset with ease.
Midi and video playback
I have used Mainstage onstage in 6 different cover bands for my entire keyboard rig and for playing backing tracks with click to drummer. 100’s of gigs and not one single crash. Simple setup of 2 live USB keyboards and anywhere from 2-8 wav file backing tracks playing. I now want to add sequenced lighting and video screen playback in sync with backing tracks and any simple plug in similar to the audio playback would suffice but nothing. Apple has chosen to stay in the “Toy” world and sell a cheap app with limited use. This is a great program but lacks pro features that other software has. It has it’s uses but I will be finding something else as the recent update just ignores user requests just so they can port over already developed items from Logic Pro into Mainstage and call it an update. If you want a Toy to play with get MainStage, if you want a pro level piece of software to run your live show look elsewhere.
BUGS, Bugs, bugs.
I like this this program and how you can use it for performances but OMG it is buggy! I have to keeping reverting back to saved so that the sound from the app can replace the distorted sound from using too long. So I can’t see anyone actually using this on stage because of all the bugs. I would hope that who ever are the programmers can try to work all of this out, it is a great program that I can use for around 20 minutes and then……distortion of sound, even high resonace apperaring ovet time. I would never use this on the Main stage, I couldn’t rely on it. This is an Apple application, you would think it would be more reliable and able to function over time with the app being open for awhile? I really don’t know who the developers are? is it Apple ? or a 3rd party working for Apple? But guys, you need to do some work to fix this in the future.
Information
macOS 10.12 or later, 64-bit processor
English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
Apple Mainstage 3 Ipad
Supports
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
MainStage 3 for PC Windows 7/8/8.1/10/XP/Vista, Laptop and Mac: It is one of best app for music lover. This music application is specially designed by Apple Inc. You can use MainStage 3 in live performance. It will provide you great experience while you are performing on the stage. This is incredible application comes with 80 plus instrument. It will help you when you play a keyboard, drum, guitar or another instrument on stage. You also can control all instrument with USB or MIDI keyboard controller. This app helps you to use wide variety of software instrument including keyboard, string, percussion etc.
You can play software instrument on your PC Windows and Laptop as well. With the help of logic remote app you can control other aspects of MainStage. It’s a flexible hardware control app. On this app you can play guitar through virtual amps and also use effects such as overdrive and compression. And other musician like vocalists, and drummer can sing and play with multi-effects setups using a microphone. And if you want to play software instrument then you can use keyboard on the Touch Bar.
This amazing app allows you to organize and access your sounds in live performance. You can store your all required sounds which you will use in your whole performances. Even you can choose channel strip setting and add instrument and effects as well. It’s also allow you to customize your sounds and edit their parameters as well. And also allow you to mix channel strips in a single patch.
Contents
MainStage 3 for PC Windows 7/8/8.1/10/XP/Vista and Laptop:
Over all this app is full with music features and combine instruments. It library have up to 1800 instruments and effect patches. So you must need 6GB available disk space for minimum install and 57GB hard disk for full sound library installation. This app comes with amazing keyboard and also easy to manage with other MIDI plugins. This app is specially designed for Mac. It’s official version is not available for PC Windows 7/8/8.1/10/XP/Vista and Laptop. But no need to worry about it. Here I will guide you about its installation method. Kindly follow the instruction below.
Main Features of MainStage 3:
- This app is easy to use and allow to perform live with more than 80 instruments.
- You can combine instrument and live video. Like you can use keyboards and vocal in a single patch.
- It has an amazing keyboard patches using splits and layers.
- You can connect your favorite hardware and allow you to use it to play and control your plug-ins.
- Automatic device recognition allow you to set up large variety of hardware.
- You can use keyboard as a foot pedal and drum pads as well.
- It’s allow you to change dynamic performance controls on each patch.
- You can easily view your full-screen performance.
- It’s Retro Synth allow you to play 70’s and 80’s style synthesizer sounds.
- You can create new ones with Alchemy.
- It’s EXS24 Sampler help you to creat a wide variety of sampled instruments.
- Auto Sampler Plug-in allow you to turn your favorite hardware synthesizers into sampled instrument.
- MIDI plug-ins help you to transform simple ideas into elaborate performance.
- You can add different effect and movement to your tracks with variety of modulation effects.
- With the help of other mixing tools you can get the perfect mix.
- You can build your own guitar or bass rig as well.
- This app has up to 1800 instruments and effects patches.
- It has 750 meticulously sampled instruments and 4600 Apple Loops.
How tp Install MainStage 3 on PC Windows 7/8/8.1/10/Xp/Vista and Laptop?
You can install MainStage 3 on your PC Windows and Laptop with an android emulator. Follow the steps below and enjoy to play Main Stage 3 on your PC Windows and Laptop.
Apple Mainstage 3 System Requirements
- Download Android Emulator for Windows Mac.
- We suggest Bluestacks one of the most famous app player for PC/Mac.
- Download Bluestacks form here.
- Learnhow to install Bluestacks on PC, Windows and Mac.
- Now open Bluestacks and write in search bar “Mainstage 3” it will appear in Google Play Store app.
- Hit the install button, it will take few minutes.
- Now you can play Mainstage 2 on PC, Back to main screen in Bluestacks and locate your app.
Download Mainstage 3 from iPadian:
- Download iPadian from here.
- Now follow the on screen instruction and launch the setup.
- It will ask you to give Apple id. Login with your Apple id credentials.
- After that open iPadian and tap on App store.
- Write in search bar “Mainstage3” and hit install button.
- Now back to main screen and locate your app.