The Maddux MainStage
Concert Bank
Five players. The sound of a small orchestra.
A small ensemble can carry the weight of a full orchestra — when its instrumentation is chosen well.
- Piano
- Guitar
- Bass
- Drums
- MainStage
MainStage takes the orchestral role: brass, strings, woodwinds, and pads, called from the keyboard in real time.
The majority of works in the Maddux catalog are scored for this instrumentation.
A sample reel of MainStage and rhythm section in context.
MainStage is Apple's live-performance counterpart to Logic Pro — inexpensive, stable, easy to manage, and capable of sounding like a million bucks in the right hands. For a chorus on a budget that still wants the lift of a real orchestral palette behind it, nothing else comes close.
The Maddux Concert Bank is built specifically for that role. Patches change on the fly via keyswitches at the upper and lower ends of the keyboard — no mouse, no trackpad, no leaning over the laptop mid-cue. Everything is steered from the keys.
And because the catalog and the bank were designed together, score excerpts mark exactly which patch to call at each moment. The result is an unusually unified system: the patches and the scores already speak the same language.
Keyswitches sit at the very top and bottom of an 88-key controller — outside the playing range used by the music itself. Each keyswitch calls a specific patch. Trigger notes are printed directly into the score wherever a patch change is required.
A complete orchestral palette.
When you buy the Maddux Concert Bank, you're buying into its future. As patches are refined and new ones are added, expansions arrive in your inbox — free.
The bank is a living instrument. It grows alongside the catalog it was built to serve, and every buyer comes along for the ride.
To use the Maddux Concert Bank, you'll need:
- Apple MainStage running on a Mac laptop
- A full 88-key MIDI keyboard controller
- A sustain pedal
- An expression pedal linked to CC11 in MainStage