Chapter 5
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Note Off
The MIDI Port Number (Port T is assumed if there is no entry here)
A 2 digit MIDI Channel number between 01 and 16
N- to indicate Note Off
A note number between 0 and 127
A velocity off value between 0 and 127
eg. A 01 N- 60 127
Program Change
The MIDI Port Number (Port T is assumed if there is no entry here)
A 2 digit MIDI Channel number between 01 and 16
P to indicate Program Change
A program number between 0 and 127
eg. A 01 P 127
Control Change
The MIDI Port Number (Port T is assumed if there is no entry here)
A 2 digit MIDI Channel number between 01 and 16
C to indicate Control Change
A controller number between 0 and 127
An equals sign (Optional)
A controller value between 0 and 127
eg. A 01 C 11 = 64
The words Program and Controller may be used or just their initial letters (case-insensitive). The equals sign is optional.
Comments are not stored although anything on a line after a semicolon is ignored. The first message in the editor is used as the patch
name on the button label but this may be edited.
When not capturing, editing, renaming or deleting, the patch buttons will output the stored MIDI data when pressed.
MIDI Sequence Files
MIDI sequence files can be played out of ports A and B. They must be .MID files in format 0 (one track only) and are quoted in the MIDI
Patches Editor as
<port> file <filename>
eg. A file test.mid
A path can precede the filename, otherwise the current session folder is assumed. Only short filenames with a maximum of 8 characters
and no punctuation are accepted.
This file is then downloaded to the card and starts playing when the MIDI Patch is fired. The Sequence File Start and Play buttons on the
MIDI Patch panel then become effective. Press Stop to pause, then Play to restart from the same place or re-fire the MIDI Patch to play
again from the beginning of the file. This remains possible until the file is played to the end or another Patch is fired with another se-
quence file for the same port. Other MIDI messages may be sent to the same port without affecting the sequence playback
MIDI Patches are stored in session files. The New Session panel has a Clear option for MIDI which deletes all MIDI Patches leaving an
empty list.
5.2 Live Update
When the Live Update button is pressed, changes to console settings may be rippled through to all cues. Such changes include
controllers and routing, but exclude editing the channel name since this is one method which is used to identify which cues to update.
Pressing any input module's ALL button will display the word OPTION on all of the input screens and according to specific rules this will
also affect the way that Live Update changes are implemented.
5.2.1 Live Update Rules ................................................................
Exactly which Cues are updated with Live Update switched on depends on a number of different variables.
These variables cannot be considered in isolation as they may all affect the functionality of Live Update.
The following list is a summary of these variables:
1) Alias matching
An input channel's settings in a given Cue will only be updated if the channel's name is the same as it is in the current cue.
If the channel's name is changed from one cue to another then Live Update will only make changes to channel settings in cues where the
channel has the same name.
NOTE: This rule also applies if the channel's name is blank in a number of different cues. A blank name in a channel is considered to be a
match for other instances of a blank name in the same channel.
Examples
If a channel has a microphone as an input source but this microphone is shared by different actors during the course of a show, it is likely
that this channels settings will be different from one cue to another.
Therefore, with Live Update on, an adjustment made to a channel in a cue where the channel name is "Harry" will also be made to all
other cues where the same channel is also called "Harry" but not in cues where the channel is called "Fred".
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