There are also (as of version 2), two separate concerts - one which remembers global settings and another which doesn't. The patches are also available for use within Logic when you download WE.

This is with a MacBook Pro which is over 3 years old. I've never had an issue playing live either in terms of the Concert being sluggish or crashing. Responsiveness and speed have never been an issue playing live. Other slight tweaks I've made have been to the split keyboard, giving some patches the bass a bit higher up the scale etc but essentially very few changes have been made by myself - which is probably for the best!! Tap Tempo works very well and is incredibly useful especially if playing with a delay or arpeggiation. Some patches contain the 'bass' setting, another may contain and 'organ' setting but obviously not all patches are the same!! So when you read options for 'synth', these synths are not all the same. If these are switched on (as the Verbs and Shimmer are in the screenshot above) then you can control the amount of reverb on the pads and piano - plus the amount of shimmer on the pads. At the top left you'll see things like the Delays. To explain more, at the top of the screen, you'll see (top left) the Piano Verb, Pad Vern and Shimmer. Once you go up to the 'Concert' level there are also effects that can be applied globally - or more accurately to the patches that are set up to use these settings. What all this does mean is that unique sounds can be found and created even within each of the individual instruments within a Concert. The patch 'That Worship Sound' has an arpeggiation on the quarter note that reminds me of 'Chariots of Fire' - I can't help but play that every time I hear it! I did find that the transpose function in MainStage when assigned to buttons was occasionally a bit flakey - nothing to do with Worship Essentials - but a MainStage issue. This is not shown on the image below as I'd set this up in an older, now disused concert I'd developed. There is also a YouTube tutorial showing how to do this.

This is fairly easy to do within the Layout mode. Note that I have also added a transpose function before now to one of the concerts, with a +1, -1 and 0 function, so that I can easily transpose (and then restore the keys to the correct pitch, using the 0 function). As usual, you use the 'Layout' tab within MainStage to assign your MIDI keys to the concert in MainStage.

Within the patches are usually up to 7 different sounds which of course can be assigned to your MIDI keyboard faders. These all have a varied range of sounds from pads, different pianos, EP sound, synths, basses etc. Worship Essentials comes with a range of patches (see image, left column).

Free patches for mainstage 3 torrent