A workaround for lack of MIDI file support

bens

I'm controlling some lights and wanted to program this all in w/ ST3, however it was very tedious and I basically had to have a perfect "performance". Adjusting after the fact was infeasible, as is copy/paste for sections.

So I decided to write all these midi commands in Logic. I then play Logic & ST3 (in Lyrics Editor) simultaneously, followed by the MIDI listen mode.

This let me utilize Logic to arrange the lights, fix small timing mistakes, copy/paste, etc and then when it was all correct, "print" this timed midi to ST3.

Here's a little video of it in action...
https://cln.sh/b7YCJQH5

CaelumWraith

bens Once again - brilliant. I'm using LightKey as my DMX Lighting control and it's being sent external midi control commands using Logic Pro. This is great, but I'd like to consolidate things so that the lyrics contain the lyrical timing and the midi lighting cues, which it sounds like you're doing here. Once question I have is, if I have the lyrics listen for midi input and play the lighting sequence via Logic, I notice the data appears at the bottom of the lyrics. Does this have any impact on the timing of the lyrics? I'm assuming not because it looks like the midi commands are bracketing in the proper timing for the song position, just making sure it's okay to have lyric timings at the top and midi timings at the bottom?

Hookey

That's cool thanks for this - I'll give it a go

Ray9s

That's brilliant.. Thanks for sharing!

bens

So after doing this for a few songs I got annoyed trying to perfectly tap Play at the same time in Logic and ST3, so I wrote a utility that takes a midi file and spits out the format to paste into Stage Traxx:

https://github.com/subdigital/midi2stagetraxx

jaytrax

Hiya @bens
Sounds like a great utility
Any chance you could do a video demo/ tutorial on how it works and any set up needed ?

bens

@jaytrax I do plan on recording a video, as the process is rather specific. But it has already saved me loads of time!