MainStage 3.6 released

New in MainStage 3.6 Release Notes

New features and enhancements

• Refined new design.
• Expands the Sound Library with 120 Patches, 50 kits and 2800 loops from today's biggest hitmakers including Boys Noize, Mark Lettieri, Mark Ronson, Oak Felder, Soulection, Take A Daytrip, Tom Misch, and TRAKGIRL.
• Adds Korean language support.
• Optimized performance for M1 Max and M1 Ultra on the new Mac Studio.
• A confirmation dialog now appears when deleting patches.
• Screen control buttons mapped to the Tempo/Tap Tempo action can now increase/decrease current tempo in 1 BPM increments.
• Patch Number and Patch Icon can now be hidden in the Patch List.
• The current concert can now be renamed directly in the Patch List.

Stability and reliability

MainStage no longer quits unexpectedly in these circumstances:

• After the audio buffer size has been changed twice without closing the preferences window.
• When loading a concert that includes the IK Multimedia Hammond B3X plug-in.
• When editing the Transpose setting of a multitimbral channel strip.
• When receiving Pitch Wheel or MIDI CC messages via the IAC bus.
• When adding a plug-in to a multitimbral channel strip after an existing plug-in window has been opened and closed.
• When pasting a screen control from a patch over a screen control in another patch.
• When the Edit>Cut command is performed on the Metronome channel strip.
• When the audio device is disconnected or reconnected while MainStage is running.

Mixer

• Dragging a stereo audio file to the mixer now creates a stereo Playback channel strip.
• It is now possible to drag in the Layer tab to set note ranges on multitimbral channel strips.
• Channel strip busses added to a multi-output channel at the set or concert level are now displayed when changing patches.
• Converting an alias of an audio channel to an independent channel now preserves the original input setting.

Patches

• When dragging multiple patch files to the Patch List, the patches are now placed where they were dropped rather than the end of the list.
• The Tempo Slider in the Patch Inspector now reliably updates when adjusted when more than one patch is selected.

Undo

• Adding a marker in Playback now creates an Undo step.
• After pasting over a selected screen control and then performing Undo, the original screen control can now be selected.
• Performing Undo after stamping a screen control now restores the control to its original size.
• Patches are no longer unexpectedly set to "Skip" after performing Undo after "New Set from Selection" is performed.
• Performing Undo after changing the icon the Patch Settings "Attributes" tab now resets the original icon.
• Undo now works properly after renaming a Keyboard in the Workspace.

Layout

• In Layout mode it is now easier to manage overlapping background objects in the Workspace.

Loopback

• Undo in Loopback now only affects the most recent recording.

Playback

• The Play/Stop button in Playback now works consistently in cases where an empty playback channel strip has the "Start with Play" action defined.
• The last marker in an instance of Playback can now be deleted using the Remove Marker command.

Plug-ins

• Mapping screen controls to Scripter plug-in parameters works as expected.

Auto Sampler

• Auto Sampler now names recorded audio files using Mainstage's current setting for Middle C.

Control surfaces and MIDI controllers

• Mackie Control motorized faders now respond as expected.
• Fixes an issue where hardware could receive incorrect values when sending tempo / tap tempo from a screen control.

General

• Layer Bypass now works with multitimbral MIDI input.
• MIDI continuous controller (cc) #12 messages now work with external hardware when using the Vintage Organ.
• The Hide MainStage system keyboard command now works in Performance mode.
• The On/Off state of the metronome is now maintained when quitting and then reopening MainStage.