About
MainStage 3 lets you take your Mac on stage with you. A full-screen interface optimized for live performance, full hardware control, and an extensive collection of plug-ins and sounds, fully compatible with Logic Pro X.
Ideal for live performances
• Perform on stage using over 80 instruments, effects and MIDI plugins, work with Audio Unit plugins.
• Add your own sounds from Logic Pro X and GarageBand - take your studio to the stage.
• Touch Bar support on MacBook Pro computers makes it easy to edit and control your workspace layout and speaking experience.
• Combine instruments and live sound, such as keyboards and vocals, in one patch (patch).
• Switch between fragments (patches) without interrupting the sound and fermentation.
• Create complex keyboard patches using splits and layers, Arpeggiator and other MIDI plugins.
• Perform with stereo or multi-channel backing tracks using the Playback plugin.
• 64-bit architecture uses all system RAM for complex sampled instruments.
Manage your equipment
• Connect your favorite equipment and use it to perform and control plug-ins.
• Use USB-compatible MIDI controllers: keyboards, pedals and drum pads.
• Instantly set up a variety of equipment with automatic device detection.
• Quickly assign controller buttons and faders to on-screen controls.
Made for the stage
• Customizable full-screen interface displays only what you need during your presentation.
• Smart Controls feature allows you to customize on-screen controls for each fragment.
• Make your Mac display visible from afar with high contrast and a full-screen interface.
Tool plugins
• Play classic synths from the 70s and 80s with Retro Synth.
• Play realistic models of iconic keyboards with the Vintage B3, Vintage Electric Piano and Vintage Clav.
• Get inspired with an extensive collection of analog, waveform, operator, additive, granular, spectral and physical synthesizers.
• Use a variety of sampled instruments or create new ones with EXS24 Sampler.
• Turn your hardware synth into a sampled instrument with the new Auto Sampler plugin.
MIDI plugins
• Create interesting compositions from simple melodies using nine MIDI plug-ins.
• Instantly transform simple chords into rich harmonies with Arpeggiator.
• Play one note and trigger a predefined chord progression with Chord Trigger.
• Play the part and transpose the notes to a different key using the Transposer.
Original sound effects
• Perform your compositions in realistic acoustic spaces with Space Designer's convolution reverb.
• Use tape, multi-tap and stereo delay effects.
• Create the perfect mix using a variety of equalizers, dynamics processors and other mixing tools.
For guitar and bass guitar
• Create your own guitar and bass hardware models with Amp Designer using classic and modern amps, hardware systems and microphones.
• Create your own set of Pedalboard pedals from a collection of effects such as delay, distortion and modulation.
• Open the full-screen tuner to quickly tune the instrument.
Sound Library
• More than 1800 Patches of instruments and sound effects.
• Over 750 carefully sampled instruments.
• 4600 Apple Loops in modern dance and electronic genres.
Minimum System Requirements
• Requires 64-bit Audio Unit plugins.
• 6 GB of free disk space for minimal installation / 57 GB for full Sound Library installation.