Mainstage Guitar Patches

Hi,
Very new to the world of Mac, but have converted to the new faith. The purpose for doing is Logic Pro / Mainstage and obviously seeing the light. Now having scanned 119 pages of Mainstage Q&A I am unable to find an answer to my question. Where can I find / download guitar patches to use on Mainstage. I'm looking ideally for a Metallica sound. Hope someone can help. Thanks
Also, I'm using a Focusrite 24DSp Audio interface, but the input levels displayed in Mainstage barely move off min, even when cranked up on the interface. Any ideas? Cheers

Welcome, brother.
You may be able to find patches easier by looking for Logic Pro settings for the specific plug-in you want to use (such as Amp Designer and Pedalboard; the two main plug-ins you will want to use to customize guitar sounds). Logic Pro and MainStage share plug-ins and settings for these plug-ins, and there are a lot more Logic Pro users out there. Also, I recommend learning to use these two plug-ins without relying on others for settings, because you will learn to customize sounds based on your own guitar, style, and amp. Start out using the settings bundled with the plug-ins and start customizing the ones that get you closest to where you want to be. It will be worth the effort.
Haven't used the Focusrite. Look to see if it provides level out controls, and make sure your level in gain is set properly. If so, it really should provide enough ample oomph for MS/Logic. If still a problem, add a Gain plug-in as your first plug-in and crank the beejeezus out of it.

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OK so to map a MS toggle switch to activate an event in a Plug-in like Guitar Rig 4?
- You have Pedalboard as an insert in the channel strip?
- You have Guitar Rig as an insert in the channel strip?
- if so
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Once you have a channel strip set up and your happy with the layout of MS you can save the channel strip and use it in Logic and vise versa - so I have started a library when my guitar and bass patches are channel strips.
This is because I mix up componants of the various Plig-ins I have say - Pedelboard => Ampdesigner => Guitar Rig 4 => Amplitube 3 => and Redwirez as a single 'patch'. So playing live I use the appropriate 'patch' strip in MS and when recording the I use same 'patch' strip in Logic.
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Hello all!
I'm just getting started with MainStage, and so far quite liking the possibilities.
However, I've hit one thing which seems to be an issue for me, assuming I've understood it correctly. Each patch seems to have it's own channel strips, with it's own AU instruments etc... which to me seems a bad idea. Surely in this state, I will end up having hundreds of AUs running for the same software, which would slow things down?
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Also, make sure that the device thats sending your CC control message is configured as a toggle switch, not a momentary, or else it will send the range min program change number when you lift your foot or finger from the button. If you want to send multiple patch changes, add more mappings and assign different CC numbers to select the patch number you desire.
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Hey Burr,
Okay, I was able to get Mainstage 1 and Guitar Rig 3 talking okay. I'll outline here how I got the two to talk but I probably need a bit more info to address your exact need(s). I've also re-read your posts and I'll take a stab at what I think you might need to do to get set up a little better. The caveat here is that I'm not 100% clear on what you want to do, so apologies if I make assumptions that are a little off
Since it sounds like you want to do MIDI patches and Guitar Rig patches and you're trying to separate the two, then let's look at that, we can always look at combined patches later.
So what it kinda sounds like, is that you're thinking about Guitar Rig at the concert level, the best thing is for you to think about Guitar Rig at the patch level. What that allows you to do is to create two different sets within the concert, one for your MIDI patches, and the other for Guitar Rig patches.
That way, you can navigate to whatever you want (MIDI patch or Guitar Rig patch) and not worry about the MIDI channel separation issue. When you were saying the Yamaha MFC10 was sending program changes for patches at the top level, instead, what you want to think about is using CC's (not PC's) for set and patch navigation and PC's only for direct access to a specific patch.
So, first program your MFC10 to send 4 different CC's for Mainstage navigation (Set Up, Set Down, Patch Up, Patch Down) e.g. you could use switches 7,8,9,0. Then go into Mainstage at the layout level and map the Set Up, Down and Patch Up, Down icon/switches using the MIDI Learn function. Go into Edit mode and test the navigation.
Next, create two different sets MIDI and Guitar Rig.
Then create your MIDI patches in the MIDI set as you normally would.
Create your Guitar Rig patches within the Guitar Rig set. Create separate Guitar Rig patches using the MFX stereo version of the AU plug in for GR. When the Guitar Rig plug-in window opens, select/edit the patch within Guitar Rig that you want to use. That specific Guitar Rig patch will now be saved in your Mainstage patch. Set up a separate Mainstage patch using a Guitar Rig patch for each of your different patches/songs.
Now you can go into perform/full screen mode to navigate to each set or patch using switches 7,8,9,0 (if that's what you used) of your MFC10 and that will call up you patch.
Additionally, if you want to call up a specific patch from MFC10, then program one of your MFC10 switches to send a specific Program Change. Then click on the patch in Mainstage, the Patch Inspector window will open up - now assign that same Program Change number there. Your MFC10 will now call up that specific patch when you press on the switch.
Now, the next thing is...if you then want to modify or express something WITHIN a Guitar Rig patch. Then you first have to program your MFC10 to set up/send let's say...5 different CC's so let's use 1-5 of your MFC10. We might want to turn on/off different effects for example, or boost a gain, or whatever. In this example, we'll choose turning an effect on/off.
So program your MFC10, then go into layout mode in Mainstage and assign the stompbox on/off switch by clicking on it, using MIDI Learn, and then pressing your footswitch to learn the CC.
Go into Edit mode, select your Mainstage Guitar Rig patch, then click the stomp button(s) you just programmed. The parameter mapping section then opens up at the bottom. Choose your Mainstage patch name (appears right under "Parameter Mapping".
Then the next column (to the right) populates, choose "Guitar Rig 3 MFX", the next column then populates with all the Guitar Rig 3 parameters, select whichever GR3 item you want to control and do the parameter mapping. In my test I chose Skreemer On/Off because I mapped my FCB1010 and Mainstage Stompbox to switch that effect.
Anyway, if everything was done ok then when you press switch 1 on your MFC10 it will turn the effect in Guitar Rig 3 on and off through Mainstage.
So now knowing all that, you should be able to map Mainstage and GR to do what you want by just using the same principles.
Sorry for the long explanation but it's the only way to give you the details...I hope I got what you wanted to do after all that...phew
Give it a go and let me know if you have any questions.
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Hi guys,
I'm new to Mainstage, but not to Logic.
Anyway, I have one rather complicated question before I dig though all the manuals.
Here is the set up that I want to achieve. My buddy has an I-Mac, I have a MacBook. What we have been doing involving logic is that I have 3 Guitar rig 4's going. A stereo pair for each Guitar rig. I am able to switch between the rigs with a single guitar input. While in each rig I use my FCB 1010 controller and make loops. After a loop is made I switch to a different guitar rig and make a 2nd loop. After that I go to the 3rd guitar rig and play leads over the first 2 loops. These are all going to separate tracks in my firnds I-Mac where he has drum machines going and he is playing his keyboards. We record all this in real time. Logic can sort of handle this, but not really all that well and I get some strange behaviors.
In Mainstage, I know you can use the mobius looper which is similar to the Gibson Echoplex that I used to own. The mobius doesn't work too well in Logic so that's why I don't use it there. It doesn't sync in Logic, but I think that it might in Mainstage. What I want to do is have one instance of guitar rig and 2 to 3 instances of the mobius looper.
Here is my question finally. Can I use my FCB1010 to control the distort, delay, and other various effects in Guitar rig 4 while playing loops in a Mobius looper. Then move to another looper, play more loops, then go the 3rd track and play over the loopers? I would need separate outs for each looper or guitar track, which I have with my Presonus Firebox. The whole time I would need to sync Mainstage with my friends master clock coming out of his I-Mac.
Can this be done?
I know it sounds like a complicated set up, and maybe it is, if there is an easier way that has sync of the loopers, and I can run hands free with my one guitar, Presonus interface, and Behringer FCB1010 I would really like to know.
I find for some reason that I have crazy set ups that nobody has ever tried before. I'm hoping that is not the case with this.
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I'm thinking that there is a way to us guitar rig as my main sound source and route into other tracks (bussing it over) and have loopers enabled in those other tracks. That way I can lay down a rhythm in one track, move to the next track, do the same looping with a different guitar patch, move to the 3rd track and play with even a different sound while the other loops are going in the first two tracks.
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I'm looking to use a footswitch (Apogee GiO or Roland FC-300) to control Mainstage 2 in concert to call up/launch: Playback audio, guitar patches, do live looping, drive keyboard MIDI instruments & fx, and lighting cues via MIDI. I'm really psyched about this. (Looks like this will all work via MIDI control changes with Mainstage, and one of the above pedal boards connected to my MacBook Pro via USB, right?).
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Seems simple enough, since there are programmable hand-held remotes that control Keynote (forward/back one slide, pause, blackout, etc.), I'm just not sure what protocol they're using (I'm not a programmer). Makes sense there would be a way to map MIDI control data thru the Mac OS to control Keynote (forward/back one slide, or ideally, skip to a specific slide/sequence, like with a MIDI program change), I just can't find anything on the support sites for Keynote, Mainstage, Logic, or the GiO or FC-300, or anything else with Google. Anyone try this before? Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
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Thanks, Brian, I appreciate it. I think you're on to something...I don't think I'll need to actually see Mainstage, or anything else other than Keynote, so it might all work.
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A friend from the Mainstage forum pointed me to Alien Apparatus Show Control application and footswitch. (www.alienapparatus.com). Below is my dialogue with their tech support. I will post again after I've had a chance to try it with Keynote, and/or Mainstage. I think my biggest question now is if Show Controller and Keynote running will work w/Mainstage at the same time (I really want to use it for the guitar rig, I think). Does anyone know if Show Controller will work with Mainstage and Keynote? Could someone test it for me if you have them? I don't have Mainstage 2. Here's the tech support dialogue:
So...here's my questions... Can you tell me:
+1) Can you use Show Controller to control Keynote specifically? Have you done it? Can you program Show Control to trigger the "keystrokes" in Keynote? Are "keystrokes" the same as "hotkeys", or is the a Mac OSX command? Can you email me some documentation/links about this? If not Keynote, is there any other program you can recommend that will play photo slide shows, video, lyrics w/beautiful transitions, that will respond to keystrokes and/or MIDI program changes from Show Controller that I can call up specific scenes from your foot controller with?+
Yes, you can control Keynote with the Hotkeys feature. Just to make sure of this, I just called up Show Controller and Keynote and did it. Yep, it certainly can be done. In fact, you can download the demo of Solo Performer Show Controller from our web site and you can give it a go yourself. Hotkeys are really just keypresses that you can send to other programs. In this case I sent right arrow keypresses to advance the Keynote slides. In the Hotkey editor of Solo Performer Show Controller, there is a field where you type in the keys to send. In this case, I want to send a right-arrow key. This is a "special" key that does not show up when you type in the field, so what you do is type "<right>" into the field. These "special" key commands are documented in both the manual and the online help. If you ever get stuck, just fire an email to me and ask.
+2) Can you run Show Controller on the same computer as Keynote? The Keynote Help in Keynote '08 talks about "Using Other Applications During a Presentation": To use Exposé, Dashboard, or other applications (such as Remote Desktop) while you’re playing a slideshow, you need to set a Keynote preference. Choose Keynote > Preferences, click Slideshow, and select “Allow Exposé, Dashboard, and others to use screen.” Selecting this option may cause your slideshow to run more slowly and animations to display poorly." Have you done this?+
You sure can run Show Controller and Keynote on the same computer. I just did it. One thing that I should point out, though, is that Keynote tries to take over your entire screen. If you have a second screen or projector (as you have indicated that you do), then you should be fine. Otherwise, you will only see Keynote unless muck about with Keynote's preferences as you've pointed out. If you're displaying on a second monitor (or projector), then you don't need to worry about any of this.
+3) Can you run Show Controller to drive Mainstage 2 and/or Logic, to take advantage of all the live audio capabilities (i.e. Pedal Board, real-time fx, soft synths, etc.) Have you done it?+
I've never done it personally. Generally I just run all of my audio form Solo Performer Show Controller. But you very likely can accomplish what you want. Solo Performer Show Controller can send MIDI commands that most audio programs will respond to. You can send MIDI commands to the IAC bus. This is how you send MIDI to programs that are running on your computer; its an "internal" MIDI chain. You just set up the receiving program to watch for MIDI on the IAC bus.
+4) Can Mainstage 2 be used as a slave to Show Controller? Can you run them both on the same mac? Have you done it?+
I've never done this, but I see no reason why it can't be done. Solo Performer Show Controller can send either MIDI or hotkeys out that Mainstage should respond to.
+5) Can you run Show Controller and Mainstage 2 on the same machine, or do you need 2 macs?+
You should be able to do this with one Mac.

Controlling a plug-in (Guitar Rig 5)---to changes banks and/or presets

I am trying to control a guitar plugin, Guitar Rig 5, via bank and preset changes---I am going to to this in Abelton and then use Mainstage for some additional sound features not requiring a sequencer.
I am a single acoustic player and I use Abelton to play a backing track and control my lighting, but I am having trouble figuring out how to setup up Guitar Rig and my MIDI channels apparently.
I am looking to be able to change from one guitar patch (like a clean sound) to a dirty sound (lead solo) automatically (eliminating the need to do the foot pedal Riverdance while playing live), but I can’t seem to figure this out after two days. I see the presets in the list, but for the life of me I can’t seem to make this work.
I dragged the plug in to a newly created "return" and then attempted to create a two new MIDI channels to perform the desired bank and preset changes. But this did not work.
I then dragged the Guitar Rig 5 plugin into a newly created "audio" track, and tried to do the same thing, but that hasn't worked either. Under the "send to" MIDI section I can select "Guitar Rig" from the drop down, but afterward I can not select the box below---which I would think would allow me to select the MIDI channel I want to sent the command for bank changes and preset changes.
The goal is to have Guitar Rig 5 changing presets automatically, so I can play through a song and at the appropriate time the GR5 plugin would switch from clean channel to distorted---for example, for a lead solo part.
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Feature Request: MainStage as a Software Instrument

I want to use MainStage for performing, and I want at the same time to use Logic to record multitracks of my band.
Currently I can do this, but it's clumsy and kind of a pain.
I can either:
A) create an aggregate device using soundflower and bounce audio out of mainstage into a separate input in logic. (This works but causes wild issues with latency, and is super CPU intensive)
B) use two audio interfaces. set Mainstage to the output of one, and logic to record the input of the other. Use a splitter to pipe the output of Mainstage simultaneously into my amp and into Logic. (Downside: so, so many wires ... and places for noise to creep into the signal chain).
Now, wouldn't it just be FREAKIN' AWESEOME, if I could create a software instrument track in Logic, and let the instrument be an instance of mainstage? Better yet, treat it like an external midi track, and have it automatically just record whatever MainStage spits out it's audio interface.
BONUS: if you can go back and edit the midi performance and re-bounce the track
DOUBLE BONUS: clock sync. Let Logic's tempo sync the clock of MainStage, or better yet, let MainStage's tap-tempo set the tempo track in Logic.
I'm just sayin' ... I purchased Logic 9 upgrade on Friday. I'd pay again next week for these features. I bet a LOT of people would.

This suggestion may not fit your needs if you change sound patches with Mainstage during any give song BUT Have you considered playing your patches (keyboards i assume) and recording your band live using just LOGIC rather than Mainstage? You may not be able to use your peddle board to change sounds like you can with Mainstage BUT with a little work before hand you could set up your sounds, use the "I" function to monitor them LIVE and control what comes through the front end via volume of the channels. (And the band recording channels simply turn off the output or send them to an unused output so they don't come through your amp.) It may be too much of a pain and may not work if you change keyboard patches a lot during the songs but if you stick with one sound per song per keyboard this would work great for you.
I've tried this as a solo artist playing along to pre-recorded drums and sent my Chapman Stick (like a guitar and bass at the same time outputting in stereo) into several different tracks, each track using different effect settings. For example I created 3 different "guitar" patches for my melody strings, one clean, one reverb and one distorted. I had them ALL receive the input from the melody strings at the same time BUT only one played at a time because I used volume automation to control which channel was heard. The settings changed on their own using "volume automation" at preset times in the songs and it worked beautifully. The only down side was to have it change my patches (via volume control automation) I HAD to play to the prerecorded drums so "I" was in the right place at the right time for the patch change. Just like playing live to a sequencer. And it took a good amount if time to "write" each arrangement before any performance was possible. But it did and does work wonderfully.
Playing with a live band this would work GREAT if you use the "same sound patch for the entire song" and would require very little pre-recording work to "Write the arrangement" for each song but if you change patches "during the songs" it may be too much set up to make it worth your while. But playing SOLO along with a click or drum track this method works amazing well. Talk about band in a box!
Just thought I'd throw the idea out for your consideration.

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