Legacy Hybrid Basic in MainStage

Hybrid Basic is a sample-based synthesizer that can create spectacular sounds.

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

• Volume slider: Set the overall volume level of the instrument.

• Waveform pop-up menu: Choose the sample set used to generate the basic synthesizer sound.

• Glide slider: Determine the time it takes a note pitch to change, or slide, to another note pitch.

• Wheel to Vibrato slider: Determine the amount of pitch modulation by your keyboard modulation wheel.

• Wheel to Cutoff slider: Determine the depth of Cutoff modulation by your keyboard modulation wheel.

• Cutoff slider: Allow less sound through at low values and more at high values—damping the sound or making it brighter.

• Cutoff Type pop-up menu: Choose from a number of preset filter curves. Try them out, and experiment with the Cutoff and Resonance parameters.

• Resonance slider: Emphasize the frequency range around the point determined by the Cutoff parameter.

• Cutoff Attack slider: Determine the time it takes before the Cutoff parameter begins to affect the sound.

• Attack slider: Make the sound start faster or slower. A fast setting makes it sound like striking a piano key, whereas a slow setting makes it sound like bowing a violin string.

• Decay slider: Make the harmonic, or bright, portion of the sound sustain for a longer time at slow values. Faster values move to the Sustain level more quickly.

• Sustain slider: Determine the level of the sound after the Attack or Decay phase has completed.

• Release slider: Determine the time it takes for notes to fade out after you let go of the keys on your keyboard.