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All tagged external synth

Feb 20

Feb 20 Ask Patch Foundry: Sending Program Change Messages To A Keyboard or Synth

Eric Barfield

Ask Patch Foundry

One of our readers wondered if it was possible to change patches on an external keyboard or synth when changing patches in MainStage. Here’s how to get MainStage to do it:

Oct 24

Oct 24 Ask Patch Foundry: Using MainStage To Control External Synths

Eric Barfield

How-To

I received this email from a reader this week:

Hi Eric,

probably that's a stupid question for you but: on MS3 how can I play a VST and an hardware synth (a Roland boutique in This case) on an external instrument track with the same controller without having them playing together but mute the ext track as I'm on the VST. LPX the external instrument plugin solves this, but on MS3 there's no source to choose