Additional Information
Minimum requirements to install all applications
- Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor (PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor highly recommended)
- 1GB of RAM (2GB or more highly recommended)
- Display with 1024-by-768 resolution (1280-by-800 or higher recommended)
- Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later
- QuickTime 7.2 or later
- DVD drive for installation
- PCI Express, ExpressCard/34, USB, or FireWire based audio interface recommended
Additional recommendations for MainStage
- At least 2GB of RAM for large EXS instruments
- USB musical keyboard, control surface, or guitar pedal board (or suitable MIDI control device and interface)
- Standard graphics card in any Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac with Intel Core Duo, Power Mac G5, or iMac G5
Available disk space
- 7GB to install all applications and required content
- Additional 39GB to install all optional content (large content packages can be installed on separate disk):
- 10GB for Jam Pack collections
- 16GB for sound effects
- 6GB for surround music beds
- 7GB for other optional content
Contents
- DVD containing Logic Pro 8, MainStage, Soundtrack Pro 2, Studio Instruments, Studio Effects, WaveBurner 1.5, Compressor 3, Impulse Response Utility, Apple Loops Utility, QuickTime 7 Pro, and required content
- Six content DVDs containing Jam Pack collections, sound effects, surround music beds, EXS24 samples, and impulse response files
- Demo content DVD
- Printed and electronic documentation
Revolutionary Interface
- Full-screen performance view optimized for the stage
- Windowed performance view for simultaneous operation of multiple applications
- High-resolution, resizable 3D graphics
- Dynamic lighting highlights screen controls in use
Sounds for the Stage
- Perform using the entire selection of Studio Instruments
- Process audio using all appropriate effect plug-ins from Studio Effects
- Audio Units support for all third-party plug-ins
- Up to 32 total keyboard layers per Patch, with up to 8 layers per split
- Floating keyboard splits that dynamically adjust during a performance
- Channel strip setting crossfades for blending between sounds with a single controller move
- Busses for advanced audio routing, submixing, and effects processing
- Signal Flow view displays all channel strips within a selected audio signal path
- Full-screen software tuner for guitars and basses
- Tap tempo using any MIDI or USB controller device or your computer keyboard
- Receive tempo from incoming MIDI clock messages
- Professional templates featuring extensive combinations of instruments and effects
- Seamless patch switching during performance without disrupting sound output or held notes
- Patch selection via MIDI program change messages
- CPU, MIDI input, and memory displays embedded in the MainStage toolbar
Hardware Integration
- Hardware compatibility with any MIDI or USB controller
- Automatic device detection for many popular controller devices
- Automatic controller assignments for recognized devices
- Layouts to assign controllers to specific parameters, then reassign controllers when equipment changes
- Learn function for fast assignment of MIDI hardware
Performance Customization
- Save and load full performance setups in the form of Concerts
- Organize sections of your performance by grouping Patches into Sets within Concerts
- Import and export Sets, Patches, and Layouts to customize Concerts
- Concert-level or Patch-level parameter mapping
- Parameter mapping via browser or direct selection from the plug-in interface
- Load and save channel strip settings for use in MainStage and Logic Pro
- Browser for searching and loading channel strip settings
- Contextual Inspectors that provide editing options according to mode and object selected
- Customizable Patch icons
- Resize, group, lock, and color functions for screen controls
- Customizable toolbar
- Keyboard transposition
- Velocity range and velocity offset options on a per-channel strip basis
- MIDI controller transformations:
- Expression Scaling
- Modulation
- MIDI Volume
- Breath Control
- MIDI message filtering on a per-channel strip basis:
- Pitch Bend
- Modulation
- Aftertouch
- Sustain
- Expression
- Broad range of customizable screen controls, including the following:
- Keyboard
- Mod/Pitch Wheel
- Sustain Pedal
- Foot Pedal
- Foot Switch
- Round Knob
- Directional Knob
- Vertical Fader
- Horizontal Fader
- Button
- Drum Pad
- Meter
- Parameter Text Box
- Free Text Box
- Patch/Set Selector
- Image Box