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Optimizing your preferences

Optimizing your preferences - MainStage Tutorial

From the course: Learning MainStage

Optimizing your preferences

- Setting your preferences correctly is the key to maximizing the potential of MainStage. The preferences not only allow you to customize the look and feel of MainStage but lets you choose how MainStage handles audio. The Preferences section of the program is split into five categories: General, Audio, MIDI, Display, and Sampler. Let's take a look at each one. In the General section of your preferences, you're able to customize several settings that will alter how MainStage responds globally. You can change the core tuning of the program. (tone) There's a start-up dropdown that lets you designate what you want the program to do when you boot it up. The options are: do nothing, create new concept from template, open most recent concert, and open most recent concert in Perform mode. There's an accessibility check box, which lets you open plug-in in controls view by default. This will set any native MainStage plug-in you own…

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