Apple MainStage 3 Instruments - MainStage 3 Instruments

Create an evolving synthesizer pad sound
1 Load the #default (or your “vanilla pad”) setting file.
2 Click the LFO 1 tab at the bottom left of the interface.
3 Click the 1 button, and play the keyboard.
The difference you will hear is subtle.
4 While holding down a chord, drag the amt slider left and right. Finally settle on a value of 0.15.
5 Choose Object 1 Strength from the Target pop-up menu near the 1 button.
You’ll hear a fluttering sound.
6 Click the sync button, and adjust the Rate knob to a value of 1/8t.
7 Activate the second LFO 1 object by clicking the 2 button, and then choose Object 1 Position
from the Target pop-up menu by the 2 button.
8 If you play the keyboard, there’s not much that’s different.
9 Choose Velocity from the via pop-up menu near the 2 button.
10 Play the keyboard at different velocities, and you’ll hear some shifting of the Object 1
pickup position.
11 Choose Sample&Hold from the Waveform pop-up menu, then play the keyboard at different
velocities. If you’ve got a sustain pedal, use it. Listen to the endlessly evolving sound.
12 You might want to experiment with the project tempo and the LFO rate.
13 You may want to alter the Spread Pickup value, and introduce LFO 2 or the other modulators.
Create a morphed synthesizer sound
1 Load the #default (or your vanilla) setting file.
2 Click the R(ecord) button in the Morph Trigger section.
3 Play a chord on the keyboard, and drag the Morph Pad ball in a circle.
4 When you’re done, click the R(ecord) button again.
5 Now change the Morph Mode to Env only, and you should see your Morph circle.
6 Play the keyboard. There’s your morphed pad.
7 Feel free to adjust the morph envelope parameters.
If you created and saved the vanilla pad setting discussed in “Create a basic synthesizer pad
sound”, you were asked to use the Morph Points, Intensity, and Rnd parameters as part of the
setting. This was to ensure that there would be several morph points already available for your
use when morphing.
You can, if you like, retain the path of your morphed pad, and continue to click the Rnd button
and adjust the Int(ensity) slider for an endless variety of sounds.
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