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MainStage 105

Creating Guitar Rigs

150 minutes | by Jim Dalrymple

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Released: Jan 16th, 2009

If you're a guitar player, MainStage presents a world of creative possibilities you've never experienced before ...

As a live performance tool, MainStage is more than just a keyboardist's dream ... in fact, if you're a guitar player, MainStage will let you build custom amps and foot pedals combinations that give you all of the worlds best guitar rigs and effects in software emulation.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to create custom guitar rigs, including modeling amps to achieve signature sounds, setting up DSP effects, and working with tone to ensure your guitar sounds exactly the way you want it to, you'll also learn a few cool tips and tricks for fading between stacked amps and setting up your guitar to work seamlessly with MainStage.

This tutorial is produced by Jim Dalrymple, legendary in the Mac community for being the co-founder of MacCentral and the "Editor at Large" of Macworld.com! But if you've spent any time in the east-coast rock scene, you also know that Jim is equally legendary for his amazing guitar skills and rock-star lifestyle. His chops are in full effect in this seminal MainStage tutorial!

Section 1: Introduction

01. Introduction

02. What is MainStage

03. Audio Interface

04. Preferences

Section 2: MainStage Interface

05. Interface Introduction

06. Customizing the Toolbar

Section 3: Working With Concerts

07. What is a Concert

08. Opening a Concert

09. Saving and Reverting Concerts

10. Creating Custom Concerts

11. Adding Sets to a Concert

12. Creating a Patch for a Custom Concert

13. Editing the Patch Icon

14. Adding Settings to a Patch

15. Duplicating a Patch for a Solo

16. A-B Basic and Solo Patches

Section 4: Layouts

17. Renaming in the Layout Window

18. Adding Items in the Layout Window

Section 5: Patches

19. Exploring Guitar Amp Pro

20. Exploring the Interface of Effects

21. Using Delay in a Patch

22. Adding Other Effects to Finish Your Tone

23. Importing a Layout

24. Mapping Amp and Effect Parameters

25. Mapping Other Parameters

26. Finish Labeling

27. Using Two Amps with an Expression Pedal

28. Using Guitar Rig Inside MainStage

29. Testing Your Patch with GarageBand

30. Testing Your Patch in Logic Pro

Section 6: Sets

31. Making a New Set

32. Creating a Patch in Your Set

33. Moving and Copying Patches to Sets

34. Renaming Patches

35. Importing and Exporting Sets

36. Creating a New Set From Existing Patches

37. Moving Sets Within a Concert

38. Changing the Tempo of a Set

39. Automatically Skipping Sets in a Concert

Section 7: Conclusion

40. Thanks

41. Gear Used in These Videos

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Creating Guitar Rigs

Jan 6, 2010

A pretty good tutorial. I had been messing with Mainstage, and this helped me to learn a few features that I'd missed during my tinkering. In future tutorials, it would be nice to show how to use AmpliTube 2 as a Mainstage plugin as well (it's a little tricky to setup), and maybe how to use a foot controller (like the new Apogee Gio).

-Matt

Creating Guitar Rigs

Aug 4, 2009

Fine course for version 1---I am awaiting an update for version 2----especially on loopback and playback

-max Gouverne

Creating Guitar Rigs

Jul 7, 2009

This was a very informative video, although the instructor speaks a bit too slowly for our taste. Set playback to 1.5x and you're good to go! Anyway, thanks in part to this video, our band now uses MainStage at every gig.

-Chachi

Creating Guitar Rigs

Mar 14, 2009

It was great. Do you have anything that can teach how to use a foot controller with Mainstage? That's what I really need next.

-Dave Golden

Creating Guitar Rigs

Feb 18, 2009

Definitely a very informative video. Hopefully if there are more tips and tricks available in another MS tutorial that would be geat.

-C Barretta

Creating Guitar Rigs

Feb 9, 2009

Excellent. Jim comes across very sincere and down to earth in these 'MainStage-Creating Guitar Rigs' tutorials. I found them to be very clear and very thorough as he takes you through step by step. I've only had to watch the videos once and now I'm right on top of the program. Cheers!

-George Rafael

Creating Guitar Rigs

Jan 25, 2009

A solid basic overview of what you can do with Main Stage using your Guitar, and Rigs. I enjoyed the down to earth approaches that will help any one who is not familiar with this over looked powerhouse, to help you prepare for those: gigs, home recordings, experimentation and lets not forget those special Live Shows, or maybe even a rehearsal hall with a new group band members. I'm pleased to know that Jim, has taken the essence of Main Stage and put forth it's wonder qualities in a straight for...

-Scott C.