MainStage 3 lets you take your Mac on stage. It features a full-screen interface optimized for live performance, complete hardware control, and a vast collection of plug-ins and sounds fully compatible with Logic Pro X.

Ideal for live performances

• MainStage  Perform on stage using over 80 instruments, effects and MIDI plug-ins, work with Audio Unit plug-ins.
• 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 presentation process.
• Combine instruments and live sound, such as keyboards and vocals, in one fragment (patch).
• Switch between fragments (patches) without interrupting sound and fermatas.
• Create complex keyboard patches using splits and layers, Arpeggiator and other MIDI plugins.
• Perform with stereo or multi-channel backing tracks using the Playback plug-in.
• 64-bit architecture utilizes the entire system memory for complex sampled instruments.

Manage equipment

• Connect your favorite gear and use it to perform and control plugins.
• Use USB-compatible MIDI controllers: keyboards, pedals and drum pads.
• Instantly configure a wide range of equipment with automatic device recognition.
• Quickly assign controller buttons and faders to on-screen controls.

Made for the stage

• MainStage Customizable full-screen interface displays only what you need while you present.
• • Smart Controls lets you customize on-screen controls for each section.
• • The Mac display is visible from far away thanks to high contrast and a full-screen interface.

Tool plugins

•  Play classic 70s and 80s style synths with Retro Synth.
•  Play realistic models of legendary keyboards with the Vintage B3, Vintage Electric Piano and Vintage Clav.
•  Get inspired with a vast collection of analog, waveform, operator, additive, granular, spectral and physical synthesizers.
•  Use a variety of sampled instruments or create new ones with the EXS24 Sampler.
•  Turn your hardware synth into a sampled instrument with the new Auto Sampler plug-in.

MIDI plugins

•  Create interesting compositions from simple melodies using nine MIDI plug-ins.
•  Instantly transform simple chords into rich harmonies with the Arpeggiator.
•  Play a single note and trigger a pre-set chord sequence with Chord Trigger.
•  Play the part and transpose the notes to another 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 Pedalboard pedal set from a collection of effects like delay, distortion, and modulation.
•  Open the full-screen tuner to quickly tune your instrument.

Sound Library

• MainStage Over 1800 Instrument and Sound Effect Patches.
•  Over 750 carefully sampled instruments.
•  4600 Apple Loops in contemporary dance and electronic genres.

Minimum system requirements

•  Requires 64-bit Audio Unit plugins.
•  6 GB of available disk space for a minimal installation / 57 GB for a full installation of the Sound Library.