MainStage Pads Player – Pads 1
$19.95The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
Tens of thousands of churches use Worship Tutorials Pads to effortlessly transform their worship sets by creating depth and texture, ambience, and awesome transitions. Now you can have our award winning Pads inside of your MainStage rig.
Worship Tutorials Pads were selected as this year’s Editor’s Pick in Worship Leader Magazine‘s ‘Best Resource Guide’ issue (for the third year in a row).
We are honored to be chosen, and we think our Pads are the best you can buy 🙂
Our bundled pricing saves you money when you buy more than one MainStage Pads Player patch. Here’s how it works:
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
The same great award winning sounds you know and love from our flagship Pads line, now in MainStage. The perfect way to play Worship Tutorials Pads in your church.
(you can click on each individual Pads set to hear samples of each set in all 12 keys)
Pads come in seven different varieties for major keys and two varieties for minor keys. Preview them all and in the audio player to hear what we feel makes them each unique. Each Pads set contains 20 minute Pads files for all 12 keys.
Our MainStage Pads Player patches aren’t software patches that you play with a keyboard. They are the exact same Pads samples available from our Flagship Pads line that you know and love. We’ve simply optimized the files to play inside of MainStage.
This allows you or your keys player to play any instrument patch you’d like within MainStage while playing the Pads as well with control over the volume level and transparency of the Pads (more on that in a bit).
Our MainStage Pads Player patches are the ideal way to play Pads if you use MainStage. These patches allow you to integrate our award-winning Pads sounds into your existing workflow, and they solve the three most common obstacles churches face when playing back Pads
The MainStage Pads Player patches allow you to trigger Pads with the push of a button (or a key on a keyboard depending on how you map the patch). It just becomes part of your keys player’s setup and workflow. And it puts control in the hands of musicians. You can use an iOS device or app to trigger Pads, or you can implement them into your presentation software, but all these solutions have potential limitations. MainStage overcomes all these limitations.
With our MainStage Pads Player patches, anytime you trigger a new Pad, the Pad that is currently playing fades out while the new one fades in. This is all handled within MainStage itself, and it works seamlessly. You can easily switch keys smoothly between songs, or even within a song to facilitate a key change. When you stop the Pads, they fade out as well.
We’ve noticed (and we’ve heard from you), that sometimes the Pads can take up a bit too much space. You can always just turn them down, but this does not really solve the problem of EQ space.
We’ve added a knob called ‘TRANSPARENCY‘. As you turn this knob up, the Pads take up less pace. It’s extremely effective if you want to remove some weight from the Pads and have them take up a smaller sonic footprint. Then, when you want the Pads to sound bigger, just turn the knob back down.
Each set of Pads effectively works exactly the same way (with the exception of the Minor Pads, which are in Minor keys). The difference is simply in how they sound. We love having options, and we think you will too. We don’t really think of one set of Pads sounding better or worse than the other, just different. Here’s how you could think of them:
Pads create an atmospheric ambient texture that sits underneath everything. It gives the music a sense of depth and weight and it helps glue everything together. With any of our Pads sets, you can have that sound present in all your songs and other service elements with a tap of a button.
It really is that easy – to use the Pads during a song, simply play the Pad in the same key as the song, and everything will just work. We are also working hard to create more versions and variations of Pads. It’s always good to have multiple sounds and textures available so you can choose the perfect sound to fit the moment you’re trying to create. Listen to the previews below and choose your favorite sounding set, or get them all!
Kind of. The Pads are still audio samples that play back when you trigger them – they’re not software patches that you play with a keyboard. But you can control how they sound using the Transparency and EQ knobs.
No, you don’t need to purchase anything else to use the MainStage Pads Player patches. All the audio files are included.
Besides the fact that it’s a MainStage patch rather than just an mp3 file, these patches provide an enormous amount of flexibility compared to Pads if you’re already using MainStage.
We think so, and we use both the Pads mp3 files and these MainStage patches all the time in our worship services. Having Pads connected to a MainStage rig on your stage is extremely beneficial, but there are times where you may want to play them from your production booth or a mobile device. Having both the regular Pads sets and the MainStage patches allows you to utilize Pads in a wide variety of situations.
The answer is simple: We wanted to use them in our church. Once we did (and we realized how awesome they are), we wanted to share them with you. Watch this video to learn more:
We’ve created countless videos on our YouTube channel (and in the Tutorials section) featuring acoustic guitar, vocals, and Worship Tutorials Pads, but here are a few: