Mainstage questions

Hi!

I have a question regarding mainstage. My band is getting ready to do some shows and plan to use mainstage for the keyboard parts.

We are really beginners when it comes to this… So please explain like we’re 3 years old ;)

we started today to add patches for each song in the setlist. Now we wonder, for example if one song has organ and strings in the riff and we created layers with both organ and strings to play at the same time, but in the verse it should only be organ. Is it possible to assign let’s say a pad on the keyboard that will ”mute” the strings when pressing it to play the verse with just the organ sounding and then hit the pad again for unmute when the chorus come in? Or must we use 2 keyboards? We only planned on using a 37 keys keyboard so it’s not optimal to split it.

if you have any easy and cool ideas please let us know! We’re a duo so the keyboard will be played by a hired musician, But we want to get the setup ready to save him the time…

looking forward to hear from you…and remember we’re dummies

kind regards

jojje/Introspektivet.