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Hi, I'm totally new to Freestyler and wondering if someone can answer a few questions for me? Here's what I am trying to acheive... I play in a covers band and want to trigger cues using midi notes at certain points during each song. I am at this point just using RGB cans, so each cue would just be a still scene of certain colours to certain cans, then a midi note triggers the next scene of colours to cans. Firstly, is this all possible? Secondly, how do I go about building perhaps a heap of preset scenes, and then creating a cuelist of the presets ready to to be triggered?

Take Note wrote:Hi, I'm totally new to Freestyler and wondering if someone can answer a few questions for me? Here's what I am trying to acheive... I play in a covers band and want to trigger cues using midi notes at certain points during each song. I am at this point just using RGB cans, so each cue would just be a still scene of certain colours to certain cans, then a midi note triggers the next scene of colours to cans. Firstly, is this all possible? Secondly, how do I go about building perhaps a heap of preset scenes, and then creating a cuelist of the presets ready to to be triggered?

I think everything you ask here is simply possible by enabling the midi control in the FreeStyler setup, configure what notes control what an off you go.

Intresting,

Is it also possible to play a midi file on the same pc and use this one to command Freestler?

Dutch:
Intressant.

Ik het dan ook mogelijk om een midifile af te spelen die Freestyler aanstuurt?
Zodat ik een intro kan maken die synchroon loopt qua muziek en licht.

Laten we het maar in het Engels houden dan snappen andere knakkers het ook nog. Daar komt bij dat hier een Deen meeleest die erg veel ervaring op Midi gebied heeft

If you play a midi file, your soundcard or its driver plays the notes. So that won't work really well.
You need to find a way to get those midi played as, uhm, midi... How do you say that?
And then via a midi loopback (midi-out --> midi in) to get it to FreeStyler. I have no idea how to accomplish that, but I'd say it is not impossible.

remco_k wrote:If you play a midi file, your soundcard or its driver plays the notes. So that won't work really well.
You need to find a way to get those midi played as, uhm, midi... How do you say that?
And then via a midi loopback (midi-out --> midi in) to get it to FreeStyler. I have no idea how to accomplish that, but I'd say it is not impossible.

If you play the MIDI file through Windows Media Player (or music playback program of your choice) then yes, the MIDI data will be sent to the sound card. However, if you use a MIDI sequencer program to read the file, you will be able to have it output to any MIDI device your system sees. Example programs would be SONAR , ProTools or FruityLoops, but I'm sure there are others available.

You will also need a MIDI loopback device driver - I would recommend LoopBE for this. You set your sequencer to output MIDI data to the LoopBE interface, then set FreeStyler to listen to the same device. Now, when you play back the MIDI file in the sequencer, FreeStyler will be able to "hear" the MIDI data and act appropriately according to how you have it set up.

Hi, I'm playing in a coverband too an like to know, how the midi-remote (maybe per NOTE ON/OFF) can run on stage. "Take Note", do you built a solution?

I like to know wether "CUELIST BUTTONS" are midi remotable ????? I can't find it in the preferences...

Need an idea, my cues are ready so far (hard work for 1 week! because of 30 fixtures!!!)

How can I aktivate the cuelist-buttons on stage?

tdreesmann wrote: I like to know wether "CUELIST BUTTONS" are midi remotable ????? I can't find it in the preferences...

FreeStyler setup->External control->Midi control
Scroll down to 'Toggle cuelist XX' and make your desired settings.

Or have a look at submasters control. Might work better for you with more control.

Hambone wrote:

remco_k wrote:If you play a midi file, your soundcard or its driver plays the notes. So that won't work really well.
You need to find a way to get those midi played as, uhm, midi... How do you say that?
And then via a midi loopback (midi-out --> midi in) to get it to FreeStyler. I have no idea how to accomplish that, but I'd say it is not impossible.

If you play the MIDI file through Windows Media Player (or music playback program of your choice) then yes, the MIDI data will be sent to the sound card. However, if you use a MIDI sequencer program to read the file, you will be able to have it output to any MIDI device your system sees. Example programs would be SONAR , ProTools or FruityLoops, but I'm sure there are others available.

You will also need a MIDI loopback device driver - I would recommend LoopBE for this. You set your sequencer to output MIDI data to the LoopBE interface, then set FreeStyler to listen to the same device. Now, when you play back the MIDI file in the sequencer, FreeStyler will be able to "hear" the MIDI data and act appropriately according to how you have it set up.

Hello I do exactly you said, I download LoopBE, I used Guitar Pro just for test to send MIDI Signals, LoopBe Sended to FreeStyler in the Midi Control page, I assigned one note for Manual Trigger all done, but when I open the Cue windows and play the guitar pro, nothing happen, when I assign a note direct from my midi controller nothing happen too, how I made this work?

"manual trigger" triggers a sequence to go to next step.. the sequence(s) has to runn before this will work. also look at the light above the manual trigger button on the cue window... it should light up when pressing the button from the cue window itself or from the midi

everthing working! Now I am excited to try some automated things! thank you guys!

hello,

How can I insert midi notes at certain points during my audio file ?
What kind of software ?
And how can I play this file ? With a media player ?
Thank's

Virtual dj pro has a plugin to do exactly as you asked

bpierre35 wrote: ↑July 7th, 2016, 3:37 pm hello,

How can I insert midi notes at certain points during my audio file ?
What kind of software ?
And how can I play this file ? With a media player ?
Thank's

I use Reaper to play back my backing tracks on stage. So my backing audio is on Track 1, while Track 2 is a midi file that controls the light through loopbe and into Freestyler.

Check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMv4qtCXhhY