MainStage v3.6.5 macOS

MainStage v3.6.5 macOS

MainStage lets you take your Mac to the stage with a full-screen interface optimised 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 100 instrument, effect and MIDI plug-ins, or work with Audio Units plug-ins

Add your sounds from Logic Pro and GarageBand to bring your studio sound to the stage

Support for the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro provides convenient controls for layout, editing and performance

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, the Arpeggiator and other MIDI plug-ins

Perform with stereo or multitrack backing tracks using Playback

64-bit architecture uses all the RAM in your system for larger sampled instruments

Hardware Control

Connect your favourite hardware and use it to play and control your plug-ins

Use USB and MIDI-equipped controllers like keyboards, foot pedals and drum pads

Instantly set up a large variety of hardware using automatic device recognition

Quickly assign hardware knobs, buttons and faders to onscreen controls

Manage sophisticated rigs using the Assignments & Mapping overview

Designed for the Stage

See only what you need during your performance using a customisable, 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

Instrument Plug-ins

Play or create a wide variety of rich sampled instruments with Sampler and Quick Sampler

Turn your favourite 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

Play faithful models of vintage keyboards with Vintage B3, Vintage Electric Piano and Vintage Clav

Perform inspired sounds using a collection of synths that provide analog, wavetable, FM, additive, granular, spectral and modelling synthesis

Play deeply sampled, professionally mixed and fully customisable drum kits provided by Drum Kit Designer

Perform electronic beats with the Ultrabeat drum machine

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

Guitar and Bass Gear

Build your own guitar or bass rig with Amp Designer using vintage and modern amps, cabinets and mics

Design a custom Pedalboard from a collection of delay, distortion and modulation stompboxes

Access a full-screen Tuner to quickly get in tune

Sound Library

Over 5,900 instrument and effect patches

1,200 meticulously sampled instruments

14,750 Apple Loops in a wide range of genres

Storage Requirements

6GB available disk space for minimum install / 72GB hard disk for full Sound Library installation

3.6.5
Nov 6, 2023
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes