How to Transpose in MainStage 3 Tutorial

We've all been there... You open up planning center and are filled with horror as you notice that all the songs are in Db. But then you remember, I can just transpose and play everything in G! Even equipped with the latest Capo technology, our fellow guitar players are not so fortunate.

While transposing can be incredibly helpful and save you lots of time, some of us keys players may experience flashbacks to a time where we forgot to "un-transpose," leading to one or more of the following: "the look" from our worship leader, instant mute via the sound guy, or, the worst case - a complete train wreck leading to the words no one wants to hear, "let's start that song again..."

This video will help you master the art of transposing in MainStage so you never have to second guess if you are in the right key - including how to transpose individual channel strips, entire patches, and even how to setup a global transpose section in your MainStage concert so you can transpose on the fly - last minute key change anyone? 😅


Chapters:
0:00 intro
1:26 Per Channel Strip
2:27 Per Patch
3:24 Global Transpose
11:33 Easy Transpose
15:42 Recap

We made transpose even simpler inside Sunday Keys with the Easy Chord feature. Easy Chord allows you to set a "Play in" and "Hear in" key and it will even apply the transpose to Midi FX, sequences, and Song Specific Patches.

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[inflexxible]

Great, this is exactly what I was working on recently and failed at the chord trigger from a patch. Thanks for the helpful tutorial!

[desmondgayle]

Hello quick question, every time I assign the button for midi transpose it’s not going up or down half step it goes up and down hole steps can you please help me out

[parthmaru]

is there any way to transpose/change octave in mainstage without tranposing/shifting the key range??

[aarchiiee]

Hello please how can you map the easy transpose to a midi button on a controller?

[Josuecaston]

I want to add a new sound to your template but the tool transpose does not modify it, what can I do?

[jptaylor]

The global transpose shown here really isn’t global - the transposition you select when on one patch that is supposedly global, doesn’t hold once you go to another patch. For it to truly be global, the transposition would need to stay on what you selected regardless of which patch you choose. Hopefully someone really figures out how to do this for real and posts the how-to video.

[revivalroot]

How to set range mode in mainstage 3.4

[Cjamesx-su]

Why can’t I click on the easy transpose button with my mouse

[kraitdouglas]

Can’t I map this to a button on the midi? Or know my Mac keyboard

[chetandavdra]

Hello all - I really need a way - so I can make global transpose changes for ALL patches in one go if I'm in patch 1 and transposed, I need ALL the rest of the patches to reflect that. Right now it seem's like I need to go back up to concert level and make a change - and then switch to the patch i want to use - this is a little useless for me, as I need to be able to do it on the fly, and within the performance screen. my live sessions' are never set, and we are doing melodies/mash-ups where depending on who's singing, we could be going in/out of different sings at any time, so I could be in one patch playing, and then would need to transpose, it' should reflect on all the patches.. (without going out of performance mode), clicking on the global concert level, and then making the change, and going back into my patch..

[xavicruz]

Is there any way to get the patches to transpose to minors?

[ChevanityL]

Hi, is there a way that the previous transpose value is kept after switching patches? Aside from the global transpose

[igotrootshealthfitness]

Can we get another one for ableton please