Roland RD-88 with Mainstage

[@benheveroh5275]

Finally someone who can explain Mainstage with some clarity, thank you..!!

[@richardpennington9224]

Thank you ! This is really helpful. You explain things in a really clear and concise way.

[@onenitestandwichita]

completely agree with everyone..clear, simple explanation. Finally got it to work because of your assistance. Thank you

[@wallace-glenncernak816]

Nicely done Thanks. In place of the Patch change pedal, I am using a Leslie Off/On. Slow/Fast Pedal for Leslie rotary sounds on the B3 ( Acoustic Samples ) .

[@jimfrazier8008]

Great tutorial! I do have one question if you're able to answer it. On my set up (RD88 and MainStage), the external control setting is adjusting the Roland internal sounds volume, as well as mainstages. I'd like to set it up so the Roland is an emergency back up sound source. Obviously, diving into the menus to turn local back on isn't ideal. You were able to separately control the Roland volume from Mainstages using that external vol knob. Is there a setting I'm missing that separates the two? Thank you

[@AlixStevens-fn3zh]

This is great! Thanks.... one question - can you see the mainstage patch on the RD88 screen?

[@nathanhill9006]

Yes

[@alexkorogodinmusic2594]

Thanks man 😀🤝

[@kpoche]

Very helpful!

[@algarvemike]

Does anyone know if the usb output has “class compliant” drivers? Ie. Can I Connect my iPad/iPhone into the USB (using Apple camera connection kit) and play iPad sounds out of the main outputs of the RD88? I use a lot of organ sounds live, and love the sound of GarageBand’s drawbars on iPad/iPhone. The Roland seem quite average in this department? Thanks for a great video it’s really helpful

[@seabass069]

In the video (5:27) you turn off the internal piano sound by turning the EXT CTRL Setting knob down, and only the Mainstage sound plays. When I do that I lose both internal and Mainstage sounds. How were you able to to turn off the internal sound by turning the EXT CTRL Setting knob down? Is there an internal setting for that feature? I can can turn off the internal sound by changing midi Local SW to 'off'. I like the idea of just turning a knob down to cut off the internal sound, vice making a system setting.

[@koticmorskoj6409]

Can RD-88 be used with MainStage only or any other DAW too?

[@angelmejia6012]

Can you explain how you connect you keyboard to Mainstage to use it as an external instrument? I like the sound of my Roland rd 88. I want to know how to setup to use it as an external instrument.

[@cabijista1]

The problem with the workaround is that if you do want to combine mainstage with internal sounds from keyboard, the internal sounds won’t now respond to the sustain pedal cause it’s in the wrong port. Surely there’s a way to fix the patch changing issue without changing up the ports?

[@nathanhill9006]

I use a NanoKontrol 2 to provide extra midi assignable controls. Works perfectly.

[@moofusa207]

Hi thanks for your tutorial. I have just bought the rd 88 and have followed all your instructions to get mainstage working with the keyboard. I have the internal and mainstage sounds playing and when I go to turn down the internal sounds it makes the volume on the mainstage sounds go down also, have I missed something, any help would be appreciated!

[@moofusa207]

The Upper 1 knob is controlling some of the volumes in mainstage and I haven't touched the daw control button. Even when I set local sw to off the upper 1 knob still controls some volumes in mainstage.

[@sandersson8074]

I think I've the same problem. Rerouted the knob in MainStage. MainStage - Edit - Assignments & Mapping - New Assignment. Device (All), Channel (1-16), Number (7 Volume). Then I left it unmapped. Seems to do the trick, but who knows...

[@vaughnvkeyshenry8638]

@@sandersson8074 Thank you so much. You're solution was the only thing that helped me.

[@Bethel_aog]

I've had problems with every time I hit a key, MainStage sees it as the same input and plays it at the same level of sound no matter what, there is no key velocity...HOW TO FIX, I AM DESPERATE!!

[@peprilen]

I’m having an issue after switching the pedals round and setting the “soft” pedal to a sustain function… lots of MainStage patches are randomly leaving me with hanging notes

[@bachcontra3606]

The PHA-4 (standard) action is tried and tested, even comes with the Roland FP-60 at substantially higher cost. Many even consider it better than the PHA-50 in the RD-2000. I consider the RD-88 a Best Buy stage keyboard with its SuperNatural acoustic and electric piano engines plus 3000 classic Roland Zen-Core sounds. It even has MainStage compatibility and speakers. Just wonderful.

[@johnnyparker2128]

I like my RD-88 but I wish it had a rotary knob because navigating the menu is painful.

[@jamessabini3541]

I recently bought the RD 88 and I am thrilled with it. It's a great great keyboard.

[@ianhellens]

Does the rd 88 have audio return if you connect it to an iPhone via USB

[@scottgraham2530]

i do not have the icon in system preferences for the rd-88 ... little help? I went to sit and installed driver

[@pcderic]

Same here. But RD-88 in Mainstage still works (the following mapping/perform steps work).

[@williamcongdon9173]

I am having issues using selected internal sounds from within Mainstage using an external channel strip and the MSB/LSB midi commands.

[@margaretannefineo4324]

can I use internal rd 88 sounds and MainStage at the same time?

[@RomeoMusic_net]

Yes! Notice at 4:55 in the video, the keyboard will default to playing both internal and external sounds simultaneously.

[@lukeyd7776]

I just click the daw control button on the front panel left of screen, then straight away you have the option to have internal, external or both internal and external sounds.

[@hansjorgromer2861]

Thank you very much for this video. Great. Both Volumes (of MainStage Sound AND Upper 1 Sound of RD-88) are on the knob 7. In the video there is only the sound of Upper 1 RD-88 on this knob. Any workaround about this matter? Would be great! Thanks.

[@ChrisBlohn]

Same here. This use to work for me on FW version 1.02 but I just updated to 1.13 and now upper 1 also turns down MainStage.

[@robertjoubert9136]

Can you plug multiple keyboards into Mainstage and have them each toggle through different patches on their own? For instance, can I have Keyboard 1, Keyboard 2, and Keyboard 3 routed to the same computer running Mainstage and each be able to play their own patches for a show?

[@christianlucas2864]

What happens if my computer is not immediately reading the RD-88?

[@mastermaury1971]

Thanks for the video. I cannot find a way to send program changes from mainstage to RD-88 for the internal sounds (not scenes) when the USB is setting to vendor mode. So i could use internal sound selected from mainstage patches. Do you know a way to do this?

[@dcool2u2]

So does Main Stage have many different sounds? I've never seen it except for this video. Judging by the menu on the left side of the laptop, all the sounds looked very basic. And judging by the two sounds he played it was just a basic organ and electric piano. There's 3000 sounds in the RD-88. Why go through all this trouble? What am I missing? Serious question. 😊

[@whoadog8725]

MainStage comes with a ton sounds, synths and the ability to use third-party plugins.

[@titoisquierdo3446]

Thank you so much for this video , it really helped me . One question , I also have a Steinberg UR22 , If I use it to connect Roland RD88 to mac book pro , would this reduce CPU usage ? Or is not necessary with this Roland ? Many thanks

[@lygitorlee9110]

The device could not be found. This settings will automatically become effective when the device is connected the next time.？？？？？

[@BenTBrown]

Do you get that every time you plug it in? Is the USB port on the computer good? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, as well as turning the computer and keyboard off and on?

[@lygitorlee9110]

@@BenTBrown now it's ok thanks

[@felixayala05]

Why do you like to turn off the sounds completely? If mainstage crashes you are doomed.

[@johnnyparker2128]

You can only use Mainstage with a Mac.....and not even an iPad.

[@johnmcshultz]

Fuck Control Port? wtf?