I recently had the pleasure to set up the MainStage rigs as the synthesizer programmer for the new Broadway production Gettin’ the Band Back Together.
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MainStage 3 Tutorial: Editing EXS24 Strings for Greater Playability
MainStage comes with a lot of great stock orchestral patches, though they often get a bad rap as these patches aren’t necessarily optimized for musical playability right out of the box. Many of the patches sound dull, are difficultly to control, and lack the needed response to be able to use them effectively. While I […]
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MainStage Tutorial: How to assign pitch bend to EXS24 instruments
In this MainStage tutorial, we’ll look at how to assign a pitch bend wheel to EXS24 instruments. After you’ve set up your controller assignments in your MainStage layout, return to EDIT mode and click on your pitch been wheel icon. It should appear as below with a blue outline. Next, in the screen control inspector […]
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MainStage 3 Tutorial: How to Edit Tunings of EXS24 Samples in MainStage
I this MainStage tutorial, we’ll look at how to edit pitches in the EXS24 sampler. It’s not uncommon to discover that one particular sample in an EXS24 instrument is out of tune slightly, particularly if resampled from an external sound library or instrument via Auto Sampler. Or, it may be necessary to adjust the pitch […]
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