Layout Mode

Layout mode is where you customize your onscreen layout and make connections between your MIDI hardware and the screen controls in your concert. You drag screen controls into the workspace and arrange them onscreen to customize your layout, then create connections (called controller assignments) between your MIDI hardware and the screen controls.

In the Screen Control Inspector, you can edit layout parameters to customize hardware assignments and modify the visual look of the screen controls in your concert.

• Screen Control Inspector: View and edit parameters for screen controls in the workspace, including hardware input, appearance, and certain types of MIDI output parameters.
• Screen Controls Palette: Drag screen controls from the palette into the workspace to add them to your onscreen layout. The palette has four tabs so that you can quickly view all screen controls or only one type of screen control. Panel controls appear as two-dimensional objects in the workspace, while shelf controls appear on an adjustable three-dimensional shelf.
• Layout buttons: Along the left side of the workspace is a series of buttons that you can use to quickly position selected screen controls in the workspace. You can align, distribute, and group selected screen controls.

In Layout mode, unlike the other modes in MainStage, you can’t select or edit individual patches. To learn what you can do in Layout mode, see Working in Layout Mode.