Drum Kit Designer overview in MainStage

Drum Kit Designer lets you build custom drum kits from a wide selection of drum and percussion sounds. It also provides controls that change sound characteristics and the level of each piece in your kit.

Further settings allow you to use different microphones and rooms to enhance multi-channel kits. Multi-channel kits are identified in the Library by a “+” at the end of the patch name.

If you’re new to using plug-ins in MainStage, see Add and remove plug-ins in MainStage.

The Drum Kit Designer interface is divided into the following main areas.

• Drum kit: Click a drum kit piece to preview its sound and to open the Edit pane and the Exchange pane (if exchange pieces are available for that drum type).

• Exchange pane: Shows all drums that are available for exchange (you may need to scroll).

• Edit pane: Shows settings that change sound characteristics.