MIDI Control of Cuelists
Posted: January 14th, 2018, 5:54 pm
All,
I hope someone can help me with this. I have been trying to get a stable/repeatable setup for my band so we can control all of our AV from a single laptop. To that end, I am attempting to drive Freestyler from a MIDI channel with Note ON events to trigger sequences in cues.
As there is very little on the web about this, I have decided to go with my gut instinct to try setting up the system using a cue of sequences for each song. So far so good (once I got my head around how to actually build a cue using single step sequences) and I can fire each sequence in a cue from MIDI notes, but.... when I try to select a different cuelist by the "Toggle Cuelist x" MIDI command (EDIT: Or as I have just noticed, by clicking on the Cuelist buttons to the RHS of the Cue dialog), FS activates one or more of the sequences in the cue randomly by itself, which is not good for my purposes.... In fact, it has brought my development of our automated live show lighting to a grinding halt as this is quite literally a "showstopper" for me. I have been trying to overcome this for a week now, but I'm getting nowhere fast.
Please can anyone offer assistance? - We have an album launch in March and I've not even started programming for the first song of the set yet!!!
Much thanks in advance
Graham
www.elysiumsky.org
I hope someone can help me with this. I have been trying to get a stable/repeatable setup for my band so we can control all of our AV from a single laptop. To that end, I am attempting to drive Freestyler from a MIDI channel with Note ON events to trigger sequences in cues.
As there is very little on the web about this, I have decided to go with my gut instinct to try setting up the system using a cue of sequences for each song. So far so good (once I got my head around how to actually build a cue using single step sequences) and I can fire each sequence in a cue from MIDI notes, but.... when I try to select a different cuelist by the "Toggle Cuelist x" MIDI command (EDIT: Or as I have just noticed, by clicking on the Cuelist buttons to the RHS of the Cue dialog), FS activates one or more of the sequences in the cue randomly by itself, which is not good for my purposes.... In fact, it has brought my development of our automated live show lighting to a grinding halt as this is quite literally a "showstopper" for me. I have been trying to overcome this for a week now, but I'm getting nowhere fast.
Please can anyone offer assistance? - We have an album launch in March and I've not even started programming for the first song of the set yet!!!
Much thanks in advance
Graham
www.elysiumsky.org