Triggering Midi Player

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I haven’t been working with Gig Performer very long but I’m getting further and further down the rabbit hole. At this point I am setting up a rig for “Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding” and I want to be able to kick off different midi files at different times. I’ve figured out how to use the Midi Player and that triggers a synth for certain parts. The thing I am trying to figure out is if there is a way to use the same controller to kick off the midi files in sequence… so basically there is a short midi part for the arpeggio synth that I trigger with a foot controller. I have that working, but now I want to effectively use the same pedal to kick off lane 2 in the player once I hit the next part, then lane 3 when that part comes. The reason I don’t want to use one long midi file is because I will often improvise some sections and run longer or shorter so I want to bring things in when it makes sense for that part to hit, rather than a rigid timeline. Is there a way to do this? Effectively, the first time I hit the pedal, lane 1 plays, the second time, Lane 2 and so on… Thanks in advance.

Dan

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Are you needing these changes to be quantised to the beat, or are you happy for it to be based on when you switch?

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I don’t need it quantized

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The MIDI File Player includes parameters for Next/Previous Song, so you can add a pad widget mapped to the next parameter (and learn that to your controller).

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However, when you change songs, the player will automatically stop, so you’d then need to trigger the play again.

The attached gig file works around that by using a small script to trigger the play button automatically whenever you press the Next/Previous widgets.

MFP Song Increment.gig (62.0 KB)

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cool, thanks. I’ll give it a try