Posts in Mainstage
MainStage Mondays: Saving Presets

One of the problems some of my users run into is saving there presets at a specific value, then having them switch when they go back to them. For instance, you might want to have a cutoff set at a certain place. You make the adjustment, switch patches, but the next time you go back to your patch it’s back in the wrong position. Here’s how to get around this problem: 

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MainStage Mondays: The Complete Guide to Using Your iPad And Logic Remote to Control MainStage

I’ve 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. Originally designed to control Logic Pro, Apple blessed us MainStage users by including us in the fun. Here’s how to use it with MainStage: 

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MainStage Mondays: How To Assign Smart Controls

MainStage included a really innovative feature in their 3.0 update last year called Smart Controls. At first I thought this was nothing but a skin feature that made the knobs look more like the instrument you’re controlling, but I quickly realized it was much more than that. Smart controls can change the number of controls you have intelligently based on the patch, switch which hardware controllers are mapped to which on-screen controls, and a bunch more. 

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