MainStage 2 - Technical Specifications

Additional Information

Minimum requirements to install all applications

  • Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor (PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor highly recommended)

  • 1GB of RAM (2GB or more highly recommended)

  • Display with 1024-by-768 resolution (1280-by-800 or higher recommended)

  • Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later

  • QuickTime 7.2 or later

  • DVD drive for installation

  • PCI Express, ExpressCard/34, USB, or FireWire based audio interface recommended

Additional recommendations for MainStage

  • At least 2GB of RAM for large EXS instruments

  • USB musical keyboard, control surface, or guitar pedal board (or suitable MIDI control device and interface)

  • Standard graphics card in any Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac with Intel Core Duo, Power Mac G5, or iMac G5

Available disk space

  • 7GB to install all applications and required content

  • Additional 39GB to install all optional content (large content packages can be installed on separate disk):

    • 10GB for Jam Pack collections

    • 16GB for sound effects

    • 6GB for surround music beds

    • 7GB for other optional content

Contents

  • DVD containing Logic Pro 8, MainStage, Soundtrack Pro 2, Studio Instruments, Studio Effects, WaveBurner 1.5, Compressor 3, Impulse Response Utility, Apple Loops Utility, QuickTime 7 Pro, and required content

  • Six content DVDs containing Jam Pack collections, sound effects, surround music beds, EXS24 samples, and impulse response files

  • Demo content DVD

  • Printed and electronic documentation

Revolutionary Interface

  • Full-screen performance view optimized for the stage

  • Windowed performance view for simultaneous operation of multiple applications

  • High-resolution, resizable 3D graphics

  • Dynamic lighting highlights screen controls in use

Sounds for the Stage

  • Perform using the entire selection of Studio Instruments

  • Process audio using all appropriate effect plug-ins from Studio Effects

  • Audio Units support for all third-party plug-ins

  • Up to 32 total keyboard layers per Patch, with up to 8 layers per split

  • Floating keyboard splits that dynamically adjust during a performance

  • Channel strip setting crossfades for blending between sounds with a single controller move

  • Busses for advanced audio routing, submixing, and effects processing

  • Signal Flow view displays all channel strips within a selected audio signal path

  • Full-screen software tuner for guitars and basses

  • Tap tempo using any MIDI or USB controller device or your computer keyboard

  • Receive tempo from incoming MIDI clock messages

  • Professional templates featuring extensive combinations of instruments and effects

  • Seamless patch switching during performance without disrupting sound output or held notes

  • Patch selection via MIDI program change messages

  • CPU, MIDI input, and memory displays embedded in the MainStage toolbar

Hardware Integration

  • Hardware compatibility with any MIDI or USB controller

  • Automatic device detection for many popular controller devices

  • Automatic controller assignments for recognized devices

  • Layouts to assign controllers to specific parameters, then reassign controllers when equipment changes

  • Learn function for fast assignment of MIDI hardware

Performance Customization

  • Save and load full performance setups in the form of Concerts

  • Organize sections of your performance by grouping Patches into Sets within Concerts

  • Import and export Sets, Patches, and Layouts to customize Concerts

  • Concert-level or Patch-level parameter mapping

  • Parameter mapping via browser or direct selection from the plug-in interface

  • Load and save channel strip settings for use in MainStage and Logic Pro

  • Browser for searching and loading channel strip settings

  • Contextual Inspectors that provide editing options according to mode and object selected

  • Customizable Patch icons

  • Resize, group, lock, and color functions for screen controls

  • Customizable toolbar

  • Keyboard transposition

  • Velocity range and velocity offset options on a per-channel strip basis

  • MIDI controller transformations:

    • Expression Scaling

    • Modulation

    • MIDI Volume

    • Breath Control

  • MIDI message filtering on a per-channel strip basis:

    • Pitch Bend

    • Modulation

    • Aftertouch

    • Sustain

    • Expression

  • Broad range of customizable screen controls, including the following:

    • Keyboard

    • Mod/Pitch Wheel

    • Sustain Pedal

    • Foot Pedal

    • Foot Switch

    • Round Knob

    • Directional Knob

    • Vertical Fader

    • Horizontal Fader

    • Button

    • Drum Pad

    • Meter

    • Parameter Text Box

    • Free Text Box

    • Patch/Set Selector

    • Image Box