#Piano patches for mainstage 3 Patch
#Piano patches for mainstage 3 software
#Piano patches for mainstage 3 Pc

I found that panel last week while trying to get things to work, but still couldn't get any response from either the Kontakt or Guitar Rig instances. You could use Alias strips of these Kontakt instances to save loading multiple instances. If I understand correctly, you would probably do much better to set up each Kontakt as a standard multi-timbral device, and then use MS to select which part of which Kontakt is used in a particular MS patch.

#Piano patches for mainstage 3 Pc

Not easily accomplished using incoming PC messages.

#Piano patches for mainstage 3 Patch

I want this MS patch to call up piano patch 2 and brass patch 5. The first is a Kontakt instrument bank containing 3 piano patches, the second is another containing 8 brass patches. A Mainstage patch contains two channel strips. Here's a simplified example of what I'm trying to accomplish. If you want to do this simultaneously with 2 Kontakts, you would probably need to make sure that all the correct sounds are in the right slots within each bank.

If you have Kontakt on a channel strip on any of these patches, with a Bank setup such that your piano sounds are on 'Unused' PC slots within the bank, Kontakt will switch sounds within the bank. Whichever patch MS is currently on, it will pass through any other PC (ie not 1-4) to the channel strips. If MS receives an incoming PC message that is 'UN-USED' (ie not mapped to a MS patch), the PC message will be passed through to any channel stripes in that Patch.ДЇor example, if you have 4 Patches (PC1-4), MS will call up Patch 4 when it receives a PC4 message. If the Patch List has individual patches assigned to distinct PC messages, MS will change Patch to the one mapped to the appropriate incoming message. MS generally responds to Program Change messages that come in from an external MIDI controller. I read the MS release notes introducing this feature, but have difficulty grasping where these 'unused Program Changes' originate, how MS differentiates between used and unused, and how the PG message gets to the channel strips, Mainstage 3 seems to have so much to offer, but without the ability to assign individual instance patches within each Mainstage patch it's useless to my way of working. It could be that my mindset is used to a certain way of working and a little creative input could shake my approach enough to solve this vexing problem. If someone has found a workaround, I'd love to hear about it. Kontakt instrument bank and Guitar Rig channel strips stay on whatever patch assignment they had on initial launch of Mainstage and changing Mainstage patches has no effect on the patches of the instances. Any instances used within that patch are completely ignored. With KORE, it's simplicity itself to assign an initial MIDI program change number to every instance used in a patch, and if I need to change any programs on instances within that patch, to assign a button sending PG increment or decrement messages to that particular instance.ДЇrom everything I've read and tried, it seems that Mainstage's only response to MIDI program change is to change Mainstage patches.

#Piano patches for mainstage 3 software

The brick wall I ran into was in trying to get MIDI Program change messages assigned to Kontakt instrument banks, software synths and Guitar Rig. Mainstage 3 on the face of it looked like a truly viable alternative, and my initial tests with CPU and memory comparisons (especially when using channel strip aliases) were promising enough to investigate further. It's stable and elegantly does what I need, but since it has been discontinued by NI, I keep my ears open for possible replacements.

For my live performance keyboard rig, I've been using KORE 2 for the last several years. Appealing to more experienced users in hopes of an answer. If you break down the workload and such, you're getting an incredible deal.Have been trying to find a solution or workaround to this problem for several days, with no luck so far. I'll also say, all of the main programmers that you could rent from also offer great customer service and are super helpful if you have adjustments that need to be made due to cuts or things like that. If you had to buy those, or even rent for the period of production, you could be looking at spending $200 on just a single library. Not to mention all of the various instrument libraries that are being used in this programming that are not Mainstage Stock. If you were to commission some random programmer to create the programming for you, you'd end up spending more money. They also allow (for most shows) for an unlimited amount of rehearsal weeks which makes it a game changer. Also, if you break it down per week, it's incredibly reasonable. It may seem pricey but it's incredibly affordable - especially when you consider how much MTI charges for rights and orchestra books and such. When I rented Something Rotten from KeyboardTEK, it was $200 per keyboard book.