Assign Action for ‘Start/Play’ Only

theVAMband

Use case: I’m using my DAW Reaper (which is where I have my multitrack backing tracks) to send MIDI over Bluetooth to my Stage Traxx 3 phone app to pull up the correct song. Once the song is up, I then have my DAW send MIDI for the ‘Assigned Action’ ‘Start/Stop’. I would submit for you to please add a separate ‘Start/Play’ action, and a ‘Pause/Stop’ action. This way if ‘Start/Play’ is triggered twice it would have no effect as the song is already playing.

The issue I’m facing is that on rare occasions my band botches something and we get off the track, so I then bail out on the track by hitting spacebar on my laptop. This then re-triggers the MIDI command for ‘Start/Stop’, effectively stopping the song in the app, which cancels the timecode autoscroll of lyrics. I would like to be able to bail on the track without messing up the autoscroll behavior of the lyrics in the app. Hope I explained that all clearly, and thank you Peter for an amazing app overall.

-Adam, bandleader the VAM Band Funk Tribute in South Florida
http://VAMband.com

peter

Makes sense for your use case. I will add it to my todo list.

theVAMband

peter thanks for the response. was thinking about this more, and my other option is to just add a ‘useless’ MIDI command (Ex: PC0.0@1) after the ‘Start/Stop’ action command on each song, that way if I hit spacebar, it won’t retrigger the action

if you do add this feature in the future (if its not too much trouble) I can then adjust my MIDI sends as necessary and remove the workaround

I tried to test the scrolling lyrics feature at my band’s performance last night. I connected the Bluetooth about 30 mins before downbeat, but by the time the show started, the Bluetooth connection was lost. Any tips to keep Bluetooth connected reliably? I want to add another layer of complexity by ‘hosting’ to my other musicians iPads, but I need it to work 100% of the time ideally. Thanks again for an awesome app.

peter

You need to prevent all devices from going to sleep. Because once iOS engages sleep it will automatically terminate all network connections opened by Stage Traxx. There is an option in Stage Traxx to keep the screen from locking up. Also don't lock the screen manually.

And don't rely on Bluetooth and adhoc wifi. It will fail once there are a number of guests in the room! It is only good enough for rehearsals. Always bring your own strong wifi router and connect all devices to that network.

theVAMband

peter got it. yes it worked perfectly when tested in the home setting. I will avoid locking screen and bring my router next time, hopefully that does the trick!