What A Beautiful Name – Hillsong Worship – MainStage Patch

Song-based MainStage patch for What A Beautiful Name // INCLUDES PADS 11

IMPORTANT NOTES

1. APPLE MAINSTAGE REQUIRED. This patch is designed to work with MainStage by Apple. It will not work on any other piece of software. MainStage is available here (or in the Mac App store): https://www.apple.com/mainstage/. Make sure to use the latest version of the software.

2. ALL PATCH SOUNDS ARE BUILT IN: This patch does not use any 3rd party plugins or instruments/sounds. Everything you need comes stock with MainStage.

3. IMPORTANT: LATENCY: This patch contains verbs and effects that can add latency depending on the speed of your system. If you get a “Latency Warning Window” when you open MainStage, make sure to click “Ignore”. DO NOT CLICK “BYPASS”. Otherwise you will disable all of your effects which makes up a large portion of the soundscape. You can reduce the buffer size in your audio preferences to reduce latency response. (SEE MAINSTAGE OFFICIAL MANUAL)

INCLUDED SOUNDS AND EFFECTS

The instruments/sounds we’ve included in this patch are designed to cover a wide variety of keys sounds found in modern worship music.

Each sound/effect is assigned to a fader with the appropriate label. You can then assign these faders to physical controls on your midi controller to be able to fade sounds in/out at your discretion. Certain sounds are only mapped to certain keys of the keyboard, which are visible in the patch. See Training Videos on our channel for more in-depth information.

THIS SONG PATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING DESIGNED SOUNDS:

FADER 1 : Piano: A basic piano patch. Designed by Fuller using MainStage Native Samples. Custom Effects Routing to enhance depth and response. Send 1 to Shimmer Verb, Send 2 to Plate Reverb.

FADER 2 : Ambient Pad – A warm slow attack analog pad synth to add sustain and depth to your chords. Designed by Fuller using MainStage Native Synth “ALCHEMY”. Custom Verb Routing to enhance depth. Send 1 to Shimmer Verb, Send 2 to Plate Reverb.

FADER 3 : Gated Synth: Arpeggiated bright synth pad (16th notes) – this will add a pulse to any song. Designed by Fuller using MainStage Native Synth “ALCHEMY”. Send 1 to Shimmer Verb, Send 2 to Plate Reverb. Send 3 to 1/4 Delay, Send 4 to 1/8 Delay.

FADER 4 : Strings – *Transposed Down -1 Octave. Key Range A0-A2 A warm slow attack acoustic string to add sustain and depth to your chords. The octave transposition also allows your right hand to trigger notes one octave lower so the strings don’t get too brittle. Designed by Fuller using MainStage Native Synth “SAMPLER”. Custom Verb Routing to enhance depth. Send 1 to Shimmer Verb, Send 2 to Plate Reverb.

FADER 5 : Synth Bass Arp – Key Range C#2-C#3 . A filtered quick attack bass pulse designed to give movement, groove and low energy to the track. Designed by Fuller using MainStage Native Synth “Alchemy”.

UN-ASSIGNED FADER : High And Low Bells – Key Range VARIES per patch . A bright little chime that accents the chord roots or lead melody. Triggered in left hand or right hand depending on patch. “Chord Trigger” plug-in assigns specific notes to each trigger. Designed by Fuller using MainStage Native Synth “Sculpture”.

FADER 6 – 8 : UN-ASSIGNED – By default these patches are unassigned. This song does not really need additional sound layers in our opinion. The previous  three sound layers should cover the track well and help to keep computer CPU usage to an optimal level. But by all means, feel free to add instruments if you are feeling lucky!

THIS PATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING EFFECTS:

Reverb: A basic (and great sounding) plate reverb

Shimmer: Ethereal shimmer reverb created using stock plug-ins.

Delay 1: 8th note delay (controlled by the ‘tap tempo’ button or the patch tempo)

Delay 2: Dotted 8th note delay (controlled by the ‘tap tempo’ button or the patch tempo)

TEMPO: 68 BPM, 4/4

USAGE

TRANSPARENCY

The ‘Transparency’ knob will cut low end from the Pads drones. This only affects the Worship Tutorials Pads (triggered by the keys buttons). You can basically turn them into a shimmer type of pad sound.

MASTER EQ

This will affect lows/highs of all the included instruments/effects.

TAP TEMPO

This button will control the tempo of all the time based effects (delays, arp, etc).

EMERGENCY

This button stops everything!

TRANPOSE

If you transpose a patch in MainStage, the Ambient Pads Player 11 does NOT transpose audio. Simply select the Pads key you want to trigger, regardless of transposed patch.

WORSHIP TUTORIALS PADS 11 SAMPLES BUILT IN

We’ve included a sample of Worship Tutorials Pads 11 in this patch as well. These are base pads that play underneath everything – they’re the same as our award-winning Pads products, just built into MainStage. Just press the button and the Pads play – you can then play anything you want on top of them. They work for both Major and Minor Keys.

CONCERT AND PATCH INCLUDED

We’ve included both a concert, a set list and several individual patches.

The patch itself is called ‘Song Title – Comb X’. You can use the concert to get started right away, or import the ‘Song Title – Comb X’ patch into any existing concert.

And finally – thank you so much for downloading this patch!