For this tutorial, I am creating a new concert using the Keyboard template. Open MainStage 3 and create a new concert or open an existing one. Place the instrument folder like the one shown in step 1 into the “Sample Instruments” folder.

The “Audio Music Apps” and “Sampler Instruments” folders should have been created when MainStage 3 was installed, however they should be created if they do not exist. The full file path to the Sampler Instruments folder is /home/current_user/Music/Audio Music Apps/Sampler Instruments, where “current_user” is the name of the user’s profile. Within the “Music” folder, open the “Audio Music Apps” folder, and then the “Sampler Instruments” folder as shown in the following image. Go to your user home folder and open the “Music” folder. In this case, the instrument is the Sampletekk Black Grand Medium Ambience. The instrument folder that you need will contain files ending in “.exs” and another folder containing all of the individual audio samples. Installing EXS24 Instruments in MainStage 3.ĭownload your instrument and unzip all files. Used in this tutorial was MainStage 3.0.3 and Mac OSX 10.9.3 This tutorial is for installing and using EXS24 instruments in MainStage 3. Now, a thing that peopla are a bit unaware of, is the fact that you can load your EXS24 instruments into Mainstage! Here's a short tutorial written by John Maroli. It's packed with instruments, effects and other goodies. Mainstage is a great application, (only available for Mac), that turns your Mac into a workstation to use both live and in recording situations.

How to load samples into exs24