Echo or stop effect triggered with a special stop button.

SmoothMoodProject

Is it possible to implement a special stop button that can stop the playback with an effect such as echo, reverb or something else. There are some times that I would like to hit stop somewhere in the middle of a song.
That could offer a great deal of flexibility for interactive performances and party repertoire when a song is not "working" and has to be stopped. Some times the crossfade could work for the change but some times a full stop is needed.

peter

Why not just setup a fade out time. A fade out is in my opinion the best option to stop in the middle of a song.

SmoothMoodProject

peter thank you Peter for your answer.
A fade will not "pass" when you are playing in a high energy party with people dancing. With a short reverb you could hit stop at a downbeat and end the song gloriously then proceed to play the next one, or make an announcement, comment etc and continue. DJs use it alot also.

Damir

SmoothMoodProject I totally agree with your need, but technically it might not be possible with todays technology, that’s the beauty of midi compared to audio files , if someone could figure out how to preserve or add a natural decay in a sudden audio file stop it would be fantastic.
Perhaps in a few more years

peter

Actually it is possible but one would need to feed a (muted) reverb effect the whole time during playback and unmute it only when the user presses stop at the same time when the playback is stopped. That would create the desired effect.

But (and that is a big but) that only works for a single stereo output and not for multiple output busses. That's why DJ apps have this feature and Stage Traxx does not. I would need to create a reverb effect for each output bus which in my opinion is using up unnecessary system resources just for the purpose of having this effect available once in a while when you want to stop playback.

Damir

peter I would be quite happy with stereo tracks only having this capability just like pitch and speed , as this would greatly improve the playback capability when manipulating the audience

SmoothMoodProject

Damir As Damir said I too would be really happy to have it as I mostly use stereo files.
I just need this feature just yesterday. I think it will see a lot of use from several users playing stereo files in a real time party setting.

Damir

Hi Peter , is there a way to introduce a few second reverb at PAUSE points? , this would really make sudden stops more natural , when interacting with audience.This would have a lot more value to end listeners than any midi commands or slight tempo changes.

peter

Not sure if this is possible. Certainly not in version 3.

Damir

peter thanks , the reason I ask is it’s great how we can pause anywhere in the song and now that we have looping and visual metronome which by the way is great, once you pause, it allows us to go crazy while choosing a new in point and because we are in almost perfect time it seamlessly joins us back to the backing track, the only thing is the exit point is not natural sounding due to sudden cut off of sound having a bit of reverb put on the end of last notes would make it more natural, but how to do it is the question.

Suggestion on visual metronome , a play button would be great in the tap area , numerous times I select a song and go to tap in the tempo which is great but I forgot to hit play so I have to exit to then hit play then back again to start tapping, this wouldn’t be an issue if there was a little play button there to start the song.
Just for safety I would only make it a play button and not a stop, just in case you enter that page so you can’t accidentally stop the show it would only allow you to start play nothing else once you exit you can stop on normal stop button.