how do you get bus names to show up in the channel strip

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how do you get bus names to show up in the channel strip

HI , I have upgraded today from MainStage 2 to the new 3, I have been using this live for five years now

with a simple vocals/guitar set up ,I use it in edit mode so i can see the mixer and i had set up and named

my busses so the showed up in the channel strip as whatever i had named them i.e. vocal reverb , delay , sub bass etc ,

my concerts from ms2 will open with ms3 and my old aux channel strip settings are all still there except in the channel strips

where i am using the busses they now only show up as bus 1 , bus 2 etc , I have tried everything to change this with no success

and i have searched the web , any help would be appreciated , thanks , Robin

Posted on Aug 29, 2015 11:42 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 29, 2015 12:52 PM in response to blackbeast250

So far I can't reproduce the error. When I rename the bus, it shows up in parenthesis next to the bus number. Have you tried uninstalling it and reinstalling the program? (Always make sure to back up your concerts, of course)

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Answer 2

Aug 29, 2015 5:44 PM in response to Authentic Identity

Hi thanks for your reply , no that doesn't work , maybe i didn't explain it well enough ,here are screen shots of ms2 and ms3 with what i am talking about shown .

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Answer 3

Aug 30, 2015 12:22 AM in response to blackbeast250

Ah, I understand. No, that is just an odd change in Mainstage 3. Definitely submit feedback requesting that they change it back. e

The quick work around is to just create on-screen knobs and map them to each send on the channel strips. You can make the hardware label anything you want, with added advantage that it's a little less cluttered than edit mode.

And this is just a preference thing, but any particular reason you use edit mode instead of perform mode?

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Answer 4

Aug 30, 2015 9:51 AM in response to Authentic Identity

I just never bothered with perform mode as it worked well in edit , I just tried it there but bus 1 is still bus 1 no matter

what you do with it , I can't get it to come up as reverb level or anything, see screen shot ,I just did the vocal channel ,

compressor threshold came up fine because its on an insert not a send , Im sorry i bought it now .

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Answer 5

Aug 30, 2015 9:52 AM in response to blackbeast250

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Answer 6

Aug 30, 2015 10:06 AM in response to blackbeast250

1) Go to Layout Mode
2) Click the Knob onscreen
3) In the Screen Control Inspector, under "Text Labels" Change Display to Value, and then check the "Add Hardware Lable" box, and in the line, type "Reverb"

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Answer 7

Aug 30, 2015 10:16 AM in response to blackbeast250

Here's a screen grab:

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Answer 8

Aug 30, 2015 12:52 PM in response to Authentic Identity

Thanks thats much better your help is appreciated .

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