I actually figured out how to do this while looking into an iTunes alternative. So the best solution I could think of would be to use MIDI to start and stop playback. However, it is rare we have an assistant hese days so the burden is on the FOH engineer. When we have an audio assistant at FOH, the transition is easily accomplished because he can start playback while the FOH engineer handles the mix side. Having a snapshot handle the crossfade between speaker and iTunes doesn’t work, either, because our producers don’t like the amount of “dead air” between bringing the speaker down and starting iTunes they want iTunes to start right away. Our problem is that iTunes is out of reach from where the FOH engineer spends most of his time so pulling down the speaker, starting iTunes, and pushing iTunes up is tough to do in the time our producers want it to happen.
Midistroke click mac#
By simply highlighting the desired song, pressing the “return” key on a mac will begin playback of the selected song. This is easily accomplished in iTunes by adding the song to a playlist, un-checking it, and then playing the song. The song then needs to flow seamlessly into a regular walk-in/out playlist. Very often at the end of the service, our producers would like a specific song to begin playing immediately for the walk-out to complement a certain mood or message from the service. However, one thing I’ve always wanted to do was control it from the Venue via snapshots. While I am looking at alternatives, iTunes has been a great fit 90% of the time. As I’ve said before, we use iTunes for all our pre- and post-service music needs and have on occasion used it for cues within a service. So a second request.I figured out how to do something today that I’ve been trying to do for a long time now.
Midistroke click free#
This means that when using Free a clip might get triggered into that layer and I then have no way of turning it off remotely as it is unmapped. Any chance the global behaviour could be selected by a key stroke which I could then midi map with midi stroke? ( You might have gathered by now I really don't like to touch the laptop at all during performance.)įree is nice too but I have an unused layer in my layout for the sole reason that you can only get six layers on view with the GUI stretched out fully by adding a seventh unused and invisible layer. Actually this can be quite a nice auto-switching effect but I'd like to be able to switch it on and off remotely. It is for this reason that I like the idea of Active except for one reason: because I have my trigger clips looping in Live ,and their quantise is set to "none", if I trigger a second loop to the Active Layer on the offbeat the previous clip on that layer(which is looping in Live) jumps in again until the second clip loops and triggers again. All this works fine with Own Layer except that I have to keep an eye on how many layers I have running. I like to keep my clip launch on the Res triggers in Live to "none" so that if I feel like jamming away they take immediate effect.
That way I can always see which deck is selected without looking at the laptop. Then I have six deck select clips looping in Live that send feedback to the monome and light the appropriate button on the monome. Otherwise the video clip get's retriggered by the looping Live clip. 1 set sends out a layer kill note to Res and simultaneously to a stop slot which kills playback of the looping clip trigger in Ableton. I then have launch clips for each clip arranged in Layers within Live with two more sets of control clips.
I have set a 5 column by six layer deck in Resolume because it works nicely with how I have my monome configured. I voted for own layer although I actually really like Active and Free.but as I trigger stuff from Ableton I run into problems.