![]() ![]() (Don’t forget to set the subsequent “Program Change” number for each Patch) In addition, you can duplicate these Programs again, and in each Program set whether overdrive is enabled or not: Patch Proceed in the same way as in Approach 1, assigning the expression pedal to different effects in each Patch - wah‑wah or whammy, while setting one of them on and the other off: Patch (I described the “Program Change” message in more detail here) Then, in the Patch Settings, change the Program Change number that will activate this Patch: a Patch, is a whole group of effects and their settings.Īfter adding the whammy effect to the Patch, duplicate it. To avoid this and use only the equipment we have, we can apply one simple trick - switch between entire Programs.Ī Program, i.e. In the standard approach described above, we would have to buy a second expression pedal, a second footswitch, and an additional MIDI adapter. We also want to turn it on and off and control it using the pedal. Approach 2Īdd the whammy pedal to the Approach 1 configuration. ![]() Proceed in the same way by assigning and mapping both footswitch buttons to toggle the wah‑wah and overdrive effects on and off. The new Assignment is now fully configured:įrom this moment, each time you depress your pedal, you will hear the wah‑wah effect. In the “Control Inspector” view below the “Assignments & Mappings” view, under the “Unmapped” tab, there is a list of possible parameters to be mapped:Ĭlick: Your strip name ► Pedalboard ► Wah‑Wah Slot ► Pedal Position You are done with the “Assign” operation, now let’s move on to the “Map” procedure. Press the button on the footswitch - this way you will assign a MIDI event to this Assignment.Ĭlick the red “Assign & Map” button again to deactivate “MIDI Learn” mode. Click on this button to activate “MIDI Learn” mode (the button turns red): Make sure you have the “Selection follows incoming MIDI” option selected.Ĭlick on the newly created Assignment to make the “Assign & Map” button enabled. ![]() Once you have your MIDI foot controllers ready, open your MainStage Concert in “Edit” mode. You want to turn each one on and off using the footswitch and control the wah‑wah effect with the pedal.Īs for hardware, you need one regular expression pedal, one double footswitch, and one USB MIDI adapter or the autonomous MIDI pedals EX3 and FS3. Suppose you only have the overdrive and wah‑wah effect on your pedalboard. I will start with a very simple example to demonstrate the standard approach, and then show you how to use the minimum amount of equipment (only 2 buttons and one pedal) to set and control any number of effects in MainStage 3. In this blog post, I will describe how to control Apple MainStage 3. Probably a little more complicated than it has to be, but that's Apple Professional Creative software for you.After a brief introduction on controlling Amp Sims using foot controllers, let’s move on to the details. In the layer editor you can choose key ranges for each instrument by clicking and dragging. Then you can go to Layer Editor, which is on the Edit screen, click a track and the Layer Editor for the keyboard that the track is mapped to will be an option at the bottom. Now when you play that keyboard, it will play all of the instruments that have that MIDI port selected. ![]() Then go to two or more instruments and set them both or all to the same MIDI port. If you want to play more than one instrument with a single physical keyboard, then first make sure you have an on-screen keyboard mapped to the MIDI port. If you have three physical keyboards and three different instruments, then you can just select a different MIDI port for each instrument and then each keyboard controls a single instrument. Under midi input, select keyboard: YOUR KEYBOARD NAME. You would think the next step would be to map an instrument to a keyboard, but no, you go back to Edit view and map instruments to MIDI ports in the channel inspector for the instrument:Ĭlick the instrument channel strip. What you've already done is gone to the Layout tab, added on-screen keyboards, clicked on them and then selected a separate MIDI port for each one of them. A guy named Eric Barfield has a tutorial here: I actually couldn't figure it out and had to use my web search skills. It seems so easy once you know how to do it. ![]()
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