Hi, I am wanting to use midi triggering the "go" button for a short theatre show.
I'm using a 12 channel dimmer for birdies, soon to be using a velleman usb-dmx, which i have not yet finished putting together......
i usually use a leapfrog desk, and program the shows as scenes, use a midi controlled relay switch to operate the go button remotely, which takes midi "beeps" from Cubase which also plays the sound and video, all in beautiful synchronised harmony. simple.
BUT i want to make a smaller compact travelling show without the need for desks and huge dimmer packs.
just a computer/sound equipt./ dimmer and lights.
I need to have around 60-70 scenes each triggered by a midi beep.
I kind of hit upon something possible.
open new sequence, record scences as steps 1-#?, save and add to cue list.
when you click the blue play button on the cue list it will cycle through the recorded steps, use the manual trigger to stop it playing automaticaly, then click for each new step/scene in the sequence.
the manual trigger can be operated by a midi signal. thus kind of fixing my problem, i think, not that i have tried it yet......no dmx interface yet.....
This might be a really long winded random way around it but thats all i could come up with so far.
You can increse the number of steps in a sequence to whatever by going to the folder where you installed the program, open the freestyler.ini (config settings) and changing "[number of scenes]" from 15 to whatever you want, i changed mine to 100.
(i haven't seen if it will cause my computer to have a nervous breakdown yet, but 100 sounds better than 15!)
If you or anyone else comes up with a better solution please let me know, as my method might be shit!!
best of luck!
