MainStage

MainStage

Apple 0 · $29.99

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Description

MainStage lets you take your Mac to the stage with a full-screen interface optimized for live performance, flexible hardware control, and a massive collection of plug-ins and sounds that are fully compatible with Logic Pro.

The Ultimate Live Rig
• Perform live with over 100 instrument, effect, and MIDI plug-ins or your favorite Audio Units plug-ins
• Add any patches from Logic Pro to bring your studio sound to the stage
• Combine instruments and live audio, such as keyboards and vocals, in a single Patch
• Switch between Patches without stopping sound output or cutting off held notes
• Design rich keyboard Patches using splits and layers
• Perform with stereo or multitrack backing tracks using Playback

Hardware Control
• Connect your favorite MIDI hardware and use it to play and control your plug-ins
• Use USB and MIDI-equipped controllers like keyboards, foot pedals, and drum pads
• Quickly assign hardware knobs, buttons, and faders to onscreen controls
• Manage sophisticated rigs using the Assignments & Mapping overview

Designed for the Stage
• See only what you need during your performance using a customizable, full-screen live interface
• Screen controls adapt for each Patch using Smart Controls
• Smart Controls offer dynamic performance controls that change with each Patch
• Easily view your Mac screen from a distance using a high-contrast, full-screen performance view

Instrument Plug-ins
• Play or create a wide variety of rich sampled instruments with Sampler and Quick Sampler
• Turn your favorite hardware synthesizers into sampled instruments using the Auto Sampler plug-in
• Quickly find sounds or create unique new ones with Alchemy, the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer
• Play classic ’70s- and ’80s-style synthesizer sounds using Retro Synth
• Perform inspired sounds using a collection of synths that provide analog, wavetable, FM, additive, granular, spectral, and modeling synthesis

MIDI Plug-ins
• Transform simple ideas into elaborate performances using nine MIDI plug-ins
• Instantly turn a simple chord into a rich performance with the Arpeggiator
• Play a single note to trigger predefined chords with Chord Trigger
• Perform a part and conform notes to a specific scale using Transposer

Creative and Production Effects
• Play your sounds through a variety of realistic acoustic spaces or creative synthesized reverbs
• Use a range of multi-tap, vintage tape, and stereo delays
• Add movement to your tracks with a variety of modulation effects
• Get the perfect mix with a collection of vintage and modern EQs, dynamics, and other mixing tools

System Requirements: 6 GB available disk space for minimum install / 44 GB or more storage space for full Sound Library installation

Developer

Apple

Developer ID: 284417353

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What's New

Version 4.2 · Apr 9, 2026

• This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes Also Recently Added: Support for Ableton Link • Synchronize tempo with Ableton Link supported software and hardware devices Sound Library • Explore an ever-expanding collection of premium sound packs with the brand new Sound Library • Listen to audio previews of any sound packs and install your favorites • Free up storage space by easily deleting packs you are no longer using

Recent Reviews

Dwainhr

v4.2

Love it… Needs a few additions/changes

I’m a professional musician who has been playing for 29 years. I am picky on my sounds and know what I want and need. I primarily play in church or do studio work and just started using MainStage 2 years ago. Fell in love and it became my primary sound module last year. It might sound crazy, but… I sold my Nord Stage and one of my Motif XF keyboards. They ended up just being midi keyboards. WHY? MainStage allows you to make Templates. It takes time to learn this, but I ended up making my own custom sounds, Drone pads, Prayer tracks, with faders that work with my NanoKontrol and NanoPad controllers. If you play in church or on stage, this is a game changer! I just wish there was an option to have a dropdown template for Playback. I added drum loops to my template, but have to setup the new songs every Sunday morning. It would be nice to have a folder to add to Playback. Also…a share button to share templates would be nice. Yes… the template size is large, but having this feature to open a link to Onedrive/Dropbox/or other share files would be great.

May 3, 2026

Elchuko Texas

v4.0

Not working well

Using an M1 8gb laptop is unusable now. Plays for about 30 seconds then cuts off even when using the simplest plugin. It use to handle everything fine. Please fix TahoeOs 26.3 and make it make it work well with MainStage 4.0

Mar 1, 2026

rishelvelasco

v4.0

Works Great but shuts down randomly

I love Mainstage and using Sunday Sounds however it shut down randomly sometimes during practice and it closed down on me TWICE IN A LIVE PERFORMANCE! Super stressful. They definitely need to fix that.

Feb 18, 2026

Princejron

v4.0

Thank you for continuing to bring new features and updates for those of us who BOUGHT MainStage!

Thank you for continuing to bring new features and updates for those of us who BOUGHT MainStage!

Feb 1, 2026

Cachete1966

v3.7.1

DECEPCIONADO

Tantas veces que escuche a personas decir que usaban MainStage. Y ahora que lo uso es una total decepción. Tendré que usarlo por razones operativas de la banda con la que voy a trabajar pero es un desastre. Los sonidos son buenos y hay en cantidad pero ni se te ocurra cargar linternas externas de otras compañías porque allí se complica todo. A veces cargan a veces no. A veces cargan a medias y suenan apenas… eso al final te genera una desconfianza total del sistema. Hace mucho tiempo usaba Hipersonic de Steinberg para tocar con controladores en vivo pero era muy limitado. Regrese después a teclados hardware tipo Kronos, M3, Motif etc para tocar en vivo sin ningún tipo de stress o problemas. Aparte que los pre de salidas de esos teclados son super potentes. No tiene sentido depender solo de los sonidos que trae el Main Stage… deberían aclarar que NO SE RECOMIENDA USAR PLUGINS EXTERNOS… Ninguno..!!! pues no son estables en el sistema. Agradezco la perdida de tiempo tratando de solucionar esto. En realidad en lo que pueda configuro algo distinto, mas flexible y sobre todo ESTABLE.!!!!

Jan 7, 2026

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