Apple MainStage 2 - Manual (Page 55)

Changing the Channel Strip Icon
When you add a channel strip, the channel strip has a default icon, which appears above
the Settings menu. You can change the icon to help visually distinguish channel strips
with different instrument types or uses.
To change the icon for a channel strip
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In the Attributes tab of the Channel Strip Inspector, choose an icon from the Icon well.
Choose an icon from
the menu.
Using Feedback Protection with Channel Strips
You can use “Feedback Protection” on audio and external instrument channel strips in
MainStage. When Feedback Protection is turned on for a channel strip, MainStage alerts
you when it detects feedback on the channel. When the feedback alert appears, the
channel is temporarily silenced. You can then choose to mute the channel while you find
and eliminate the source of the feedback, allow feedback on the channel, or continue to
use the channel and receive alerts when feedback occurs.
Feedback protection is turned on by default for audio channels strips and turned off by
default for external instrument channel strips. You can turn Feedback Protection on or
off for a channel strip in the Channel Strip Inspector.
To turn Feedback Protection on or off
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In the Attributes tab of the Channel Strip Inspector, select the Feedback Protection
checkbox to turn Feedback Protection on. If it is on, deselect the checkbox to turn it off.
Setting Keyboard Input for a Software Instrument Channel Strip
In the Channel Strip Inspector, you can choose the keyboard controller from which the
channel strip receives MIDI input. If you are using a multitimbral instrument, you can also
choose the input for each MIDI channel. For example, you can use the EVB3 instrument
as a multitimbral instrument, and send input to the upper and lower register and the
foot pedal using three separate MIDI channels.
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