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.
