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1. #Best midi keyboard for mainstage how to#
2. #Best midi keyboard for mainstage manual#
3. #Best midi keyboard for mainstage pro#
4. #Best midi keyboard for mainstage professional#

Plug your instrument cable into the output channel 1 on your on your audio interface. Plug in your sustain pedal to the sustain pedal jack on your midi controller.Ĥ. Plug in a USB cable to your audio interface and midi controller. Set up your stands, then put your keyboards on them.Ģ.

#Best midi keyboard for mainstage how to#

Quickly, here's how to put it all together:ġ.

#Best midi keyboard for mainstage pro#

Take your pick- I recommend almost all of them for audio output, minus Pro Tools interfaces (too much latency) and Behringer (really unstable audio drivers, creating drops in your audio). You can pick up a decent audio interface for under $100 here.

#Best midi keyboard for mainstage professional#

Every professional I've ever met uses one of these for reliable, consistently stable audio signal output- it'll also keeps your audio from weird drops and spikes that occur when using adapters. While you can definitely use a little 1/8th to 1/4th inch adapter to get the sounds out of your computer to the FOH mixer, I would highly recommend you invest in a decent audio interface to translate the sounds from Mainstage, and send an analog signal to your DI box.

#Best midi keyboard for mainstage manual#

I often program Mainstage to switch all the sounds on my Nord and on Mainstage using program change messages (check the Mainstage manual to figure this one out) which can make it much simpler to change all your sounds with a single press of a button. Then instead of switching all the sounds midway through the set, I simply reach to the upper keyboard.

I often have all of my pads and ethnic instruments programmed on my top tier keyboard controlling Mainstage, and my piano and organ sounds down below on my Nord. This helps you to keep from switching patches too often during a song. While this might not be necessary if you plan on controlling Mainstage with the Motif XS or similar keyboard, you definitely might consider getting one if for no other reason than having a second tier keyboard to put over the top of your main rig.įor instance, I often use a M-Audio or a Novation keyboard placed on top of a Nord Stage keyboard, that I use for my organs, pianos, electric pianos, and other meat and potatoes sounds. Remember to get the fastest computer you can afford- Mainstage eats your CPU and memory at an insane level. you can pick up a Mac Mini if you're squeezed for budget- they can go as low as $599, and sometimes even cheaper if you get it refurbished from the Apple online store. I'd recommend a laptop, although a desktop will work. Here's what you'll need to run Mainstage live on Sundays: Mainstage is a great platform for worship music, and is especially powerful when you pair it with a hardware-based keyboard like the Motif XS. Trying to see if I could get any type of help. However, I am completely lost as to how to go about developing a simple rig for church.

I own a motif xs and recently have been considering purchasing an ipad2 16gb along with Mainstage to enhance worship in church. I am a church musician in the Bahamas and came across your blog recently. I recently received an email about setting up a Mainstage rig for use in worship music- since many of you are using/planning on using Mainstage 3 live at your church, I decided you all might benefit from hearing my response.