MainStage: Perform Live for Mac

MainStage: Perform Live

MainStage is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform, all in one simple plan.

MainStage 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.

The Ultimate Live Rig • Perform live with over 100 instrument, effect, and MIDI plug-ins or your favorite Audio Units plug-ins • Add any patches from Logic Pro to bring your studio sound to the stage • 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 • Perform with stereo or multitrack backing tracks using Playback

Hardware Control • Connect your favorite MIDI hardware and use it to play and control your plug-ins • Use USB and MIDI-equipped controllers like keyboards, foot pedals, and drum pads • Quickly assign hardware knobs, buttons, and faders to onscreen controls Manage sophisticated rigs using the Assignments & Mapping overview Synchronize tempo with Ableton Link supported software and hardware devices

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

Sound Library • Explore an ever-expanding collection of premium sound packs with the brand new Sound Library • Listen to audio previews of any sound packs and install your favorites • Free up storage space by easily deleting packs you are no longer using

Instrument Plug-ins • Play or create a wide variety of rich sampled instruments with Sampler and Quick Sampler • Turn your favorite hardware synthesizers into sampled instruments using the Auto Sampler plug-in • Quickly find sounds or create unique new ones with Alchemy, the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer • Play classic ’70s- and ’80s-style synthesizer sounds using Retro Synth • Perform inspired sounds using a collection of synths that provide analog, wavetable, FM, additive, granular, spectral, and modeling synthesis

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 a variety of realistic acoustic spaces or creative synthesized reverbs • 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 vintage and modern EQs, dynamics, and other mixing tools

System Requirements: 6 GB available disk space for minimum install / 44 GB or more storage space for full Sound Library installation

What's New

Beat Breaker Enhancements • Explore even more ways to rhythmically shape and shuffle audio with additional controls for filter, pan, and randomize

Alchemy Enhancements • Use Grain Sync mode to go deep into new sonic timbres and textures in granular synthesis

New Sound Pack • Transform your productions with the Granular Alchemy pack — a collection of otherworldly sounds designed around the new Grain Sync mode