Mainstage Mondays: A Defense of Mainstage

With Mainstage gaining some significant competitors this year at winter NAMM, many people have been asking what I think of Native Instrument’s Komplete Kontrol, and Akai’s Advance Keyboard line.

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Mainstage Mondays: Setting Up a Hybrid Software/Hardware Keyboard Rig

This week I help a reader set up a custom keyboard rig for his church.

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Mainstage 3.1 First Look

The big news this week was the Logic Pro 10.1 update that included a ton of cool stuff, but Mainstage users weren’t neglected by any means. Here’s the 5 big new features Apple gave us:

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Mainstage Mondays: Organizing And Setting Up Patches and Sets

Mainstage offers a lot of different ways to organize your patches, and there are some valuable advantages to each method. Here are some of my favorite tips:

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Mainstage Mondays: Creating a Hardware/Software Keyboard Rig

I love Mainstage, but like all software, there’s the chance that it could crash live. I love hardware, but it lacks a lot of the functionality and power that software synths offer. Starting last year, I made a decision that if I could help it, I would never rely completely on just hardware or software exclusively, and I started developing a hybrid rig that had redundancy, reliability, and a ton of sonic power. Here’s how I did it:

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