Apple MainStage 3.7.1 for MacOS 2025

General Overview

MainStage is a live performance application available on macOS that transforms your Mac into an instrument or voice processor or guitar rig so the musicians can take their studio quality sounds into live performances. On a full-screen, customizable interface designed to work live, it offers a huge range of instruments, effects and MIDI plug-ins, all of which can be used with Logic Pro. MainStage also enables the control of hardware, enabling users to connect and control their preferred MIDI controllers, keyboards and foot pedals.

Important Features

• The focus of live performance: MainStage does not duplicate MainStage in features or interface, but it has a simplified interface, and has features optimized for live performance
• Plug-ins, Sounds: It has a huge selection of plug-ins and sounds including instruments, effects, and MIDI plug-ins, many of which are common between it and Logic Pro
• Hardware Control: MainStage gives the user control over their favorite MIDI controllers, keyboards and foot pedals giving them physical control of their sounds
• Patch Management: It enables users to create and control what are known as Patches which are basically presets that group together instruments, effects and other settings and enable the user to switch easily between the sounds within the same performance
• Seamless Switching: MainStage allows regular and smooth Patch switching, i.e., when switching Patches, notes and chords can fade out, eliminating sudden sound interruptions