Global Transpose Controls in Mainstage 3 | How To

This is a great tutorial. I can now global transpose perfectly fine!!!! Thank you!

Omg thank you so much! Solved an issue I’ve had for soooooo long

This is a fantastic tutorial. I didn't think it was possible. Thanks a lot.

Nice! And straight to the Point.

Thanks it worked!   I just need more buttons now, in case I have to go up or down beyond a minor 3rd.

It's not Global Transpose - it's Patch Transpose. Big difference.

you are the best

Awesome! thanks for the Help!

Lifesaver!! Thank man!

What about patches with chord trigger ? Is this way transposing them ?

thank you so much broooo

Thank you for the tutorial, but for an app that’s supposed to make live performances easy, the fact that changing tempo manually between songs or a simple transposition for a keyboard requiring multiple minutes of tutorial is baffling to me. Again, mad props for helping us out.

I desperately need to make this work for me right now and it's not. I wish you could have talked through this because it's difficult to see your screen and you flew through the steps. If you ever rerecord it slower for us not so bright folks, I'd be grateful!

One scary thing about this method (or any software-based transpose method), is that if you do it while holding down keys, the notes will sustain indefinitely. Here's why: after you transpose, MainStage will send out different "note off" messages than the keys they started, and the synths in your patch won't know, so they'll never get the proper note-offs, and continue playing. Worse, this can throw off the synth indefinitely, even after you quickly play the correct notes. Hardware controllers that have transpose buttons have a built-in algorithm that tracks what the transposition was when the key was first pressed down, and then sends the correct note-off when you lift up the key. Theoretically a software program could do that too, but unless they have a very robust transposition system built-in (which MainStage does not), it's basically acting as a "dumb" router, incidentally changing the key for whatever message comes in, and not keeping track. That said, software transposition is fantastic if you're not planning to change it. I'll often use it globally (within a patch) if the guitarist suddenly suggests changing the key of a song I've already learned. But it's best if you can set it and leave it permanently in one place for a patch. if you have a small keyboard and need to octave shift, for instance, it's really best to use transpose buttons built into the board.

Isn't there a way to make this so you can tap the button several times and transpose more up or down? =/

Thanks!

Hello, my mainstage 3 does not show the Transpose Patch, how can I get it?