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Can someone please help me with the MIDI triggers in Freestyler? I can get Freestyler to listen for, detect and store MIDI notes sent from another program but I can't get them to trigger my LED lights.

and how are you trying to trigger your led pars with Midi?

/spirit

I am running a MIDI file from Ableton Live that sends MIDI notes to Freestyler via LoopBe1.

Yes Oke but which command are you using to trigger the led pars.
And how would you like to have it ?
/spirit

I need different light to fire on different notes. I've set up Cues for different colors/light combinations and recorded a note to trigger the "Toggle Cuelist 1,2,3, etc." but that yielded nothing. I also set them up with the Overide buttons and tried to trigger the "Overide Button 1,2,3, etc. but still nothing. I'm very frustrated at this point.

oke what type of Midi note's do you send?

9: Note on (90 to 9F)
A: Poly aftertouch ( A0 to AF)
B: Controller ( B0 to BF)
C: Program change ( C0 to CF)
D: Channel aftertouch ( D0 to DF)
E: Pitch bender ( E0 to EF)

/spirit

It's just notes from Ableton. For instance, it will appear as 86,50,1 in the boxes at the bottom of the setup screen. I believe that 86 is the note, 50 is the velocity and 1 is the page number. I'll try to attach a screen shot. I just patched in one LED light until I get this working.

Velocity is the problem. By default, FreeStyler expects a velocity of 127 for all note events. You need to either edit your MIDI sequence so that it's sending full velocity notes, or you can also edit the freestyler.ini to change the velocity trigger value to a lower than what you are sending it.

first box is Note
second Box is Velocity
third box is Channel

and as hambone says FS works with velocity 0 (00) = OFF 127 (7F) = ON

so thats your problem..

/spirit

Thanks guys. When I didn't hear anything for a couple of days, I just assumed that nobody was going to respond. I'll try setting the notes all at 127 velocity.