I work in mainstage 2.2.2 with patches that are using splits, and I want to make an octave button for just one instruments in a patch. Suggestions? (If I press the octave button in my keyboard, the whole split point moves, no good...)
Benny
MainStage, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
An octave button for just one instrument will work for some instruments. EVB3, ESX24, ESM and a few others can be assigned. However I was unable to make it work with EVP88 and ES2. Try this example: in layout mode set up a button(or buttons) on your controller keyboard for changing octaves. In edit mode add a channel strip and select an ESX24 instrument. Select the screen control button you want to assign in the workspace. In the screen control inspector, select the mappings tab. The list below will say unmapped. Double-click on it. Select the instrument in the list. Another list to the right will appear. Select ESX24 (Sampler). In the column to the right, select the pitch folder, then select transpose. To the right, you'll see saved value, button on and button off values. This should get you started. Some of the instruments have different menus, so they'll be a little different. Have fun with it.
Thanks for the reply.
I could realy use a general button for all my patches... As you mentioned, not all intruments have octave transposition, and many patches in my set use kontakt...
I realy think they should consider implementing that function in the strip level.
Benny
It would be nice to have a transpose command in the actions menu in the mapping section of the channel strip inspector. Then you transpose any single instrument on the fly. You can transpose a channel strip in the MIDI input tab of the channel strip inspector, but it's not meant for controlling from your keyboard within a patch. Let's hope Mainstage 3 adds this to the wish list.
how do I make a transpose/octave button for just one instrument in a split?
