Hello,

I'd like to use Stage Traxx as a reminder for my lyrics during a concert.
When I click on my midi controller, I'd like to go automatically to the next song, with an autoplay.
I can recognize my midi controller and assign it the “Next Song” action. But when I press it, the software displays: “Not Possible during Playback”.

I've already tried the solutions I found in the forum:

  • Enable fade in: it doesn't change my problem
  • In one of the forum topics, it says to use “move selection down” instead of “next song”, but I can't find this action in the list of actions to assign.

Can you help me ?
Thanks a lot

    • LLishy

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      Chamery that message appears as the current song is still playing. You need to stop it or allow it to finish first before you can go to the next song.

        Thanks for your answer!

        But I don't understand why it works this way!
        During a live concert, you want to act with as few buttons as possible! And when you really play a song live, the duration can fluctuate. So I'd just like to be able to move on to the next song, by manipulating a single midi control.

        Is that really impossible with stage traxx 3 ?

          • LLishy

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            Chamery it’s like that so that if you accidentally press it whilst the song is playing it doesn’t skip to the next song which would be a nightmare, especially if you’re playing with backing tracks.
            It might be possible to do it with just your midi footswitch. Which one do you have?

                • Damir

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                  Lishy it’s like that so that if you accidentally press it whilst the song is playing it doesn’t skip to the next song which would be a nightmare, especially if you’re playing with backing tracks.
                  It might be possible to do it with just your midi footswitch

                  I totally agree with you Lishy, BUT!, thats why we have LYRICS ONLY mode and this should be available to the user on foots witch if the song is a lyrics only song thats why we have the two modes , otherwise whats the point of lyrics only song.
                  Yes you should be able to skip to any song with the up down select foot switches and you should be able to skip through audio segments with another two foot switches so you can easily manoeuvre through the lyrics only to get to any part of the lyrics you choose , if you don't have audio loops than a scroll up down foot command with a speed adjustment per song so you have full manual control on the feet.
                  Not everyone needs backing tracks , but would like a very simple way of manoeuvring through a song text without involving a set duration or audio segments.
                  You should be able to easily select any song and scroll through its text by foot with ease and have simple scroll speed selection on screen.
                  If using the time selector then that automates the scroll if no time is set than the foot control does the job .
                  That capability should be there.
                  Perhaps it is , I've never tried to do this cause i use backing tracks.

                      • LLishy

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                        Damir not sure why you have mentioned loops and autoscrolling as they have no relevance to the original post. You can do all those things with a footswitch. You can also skip to the next song, just not whilst the current one is playing.
                        I only used the backing tracks as an example but I wouldn’t want to skip to the next song of a lyrics only song whilst it’s playing either.

                            Thanks again for your answers!
                            Indeed, my question is in the context of a “lyrics only” song. My goal is simply to have the lyrics scroll on a given timing, when i finish singing my song, via a midi action, I can go to the next song.

                            My use case is as follows: I use Apple Mainstage to manage my entire concert. For each song, I have a set of settings (which intrument, which reverb, which effects, etc.). And as soon as I've finished one song, I can move on to the next just by pressing a midi controller. That's why I would have liked the lyrics to change in Stage Traxx at the same time.

                            I think this should be an option for cases like mine. We could have a “stop current song and play next song” option.

                            Thanks,
                            Damien

                              Lishy not sure why you have mentioned loops and autoscrolling as they have no relevance to the original post. You can do all those things with a footswitch. You can also skip to the next song, just not whilst the current one is playing.
                              I only used the backing tracks as an example but I wouldn’t want to skip to the next song of a lyrics only song whilst it’s playing either.

                              Yes they do have relevance , because you can use a normal song with a backing track that has audio segments to easily manoeuvre through the lyrics by using you foot controller by NOT playing a song , simply select a song and manoeuvre through the loops to get to your verse, choruses, you don't need to play the audio because you are simply using the text only.
                              My point is , you also have lyrics only songs , so this is where the difference should be in the two song modes, you should be able to simply load your text in to the editor , choose any lyrics only song hit a button on your foot and have a smooth scroll through that song text without any other involvement , except the scroll speed adjustment on the screen to choose your speed .
                              At the moment i don't believe this can happen.
                              So why have the two SONG MODES?
                              There are midi foot controllers out there now that can program each audio segment to be instantly available on a switch, the foot switches are becoming very powerful but the software needs to be adjusted for all those features to work.

                                  Chamery My use case is as follows: I use Apple Mainstage to manage my entire concert. For each song, I have a set of settings (which intrument, which reverb, which effects, etc.). And as soon as I've finished one song, I can move on to the next just by pressing a midi controller. That's why I would have liked the lyrics to change in Stage Traxx at the same time.

                                  Hi , I'm in the process of upgrading my foot pedal and have done some research on whats out there, are you using a pedal that can record your foot switch commands per song on the pedal itself?
                                  So when you choose a song on the pedal it automatically sets everything up for you.
                                  So what you need is for ST3 to simply jump to the appropriate song and text with one button push then you simply scroll through the text?
                                  Perhaps tell us in more detail how you use your foot pedal and which pedal it is so we can help.

                                    • LLishy

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                                      Damir the OP hasn’t mentioned any of the things you just have and think you are over complicating things here. Unless I’m misunderstanding he simply wants to go to the next song whilst the current one is playing with one footswitch. It isn’t possible via stage Traxx at the moment but depending on what footswitch he has he might be able to do so on that with one press instead.

                                          Damir you should be able to simply load your text in to the editor , choose any lyrics only song hit a button on your foot and have a smooth scroll through that song text without any other involvement , except the scroll speed adjustment on the screen to choose your speed .

                                          That's what I'd like. I don't use any other features, because I actually play the music live.
                                          I don't use a pedal, but I have assigned a button on my keyboard to trigger a midi action.

                                          I'd like to start the concert with song 1 (Lyrics only) so that the text scrolls slowly for, say, 3:30, and then by pressing my dedicated button, I can go on to song 2 and so on.

                                          Thanks

                                              • Damir

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                                                Lishy yes i understand , but what he is asking for already exists if he does not use lyrics only.
                                                In lyrics only you are limited once you hit play, you are stuck.
                                                With normal song mode you don't need to hit play, you simply jump to a song and move through the text by selecting your appropriate audio segment, you can move to any song at any time and chose any part of the text you want all by foot.
                                                In lyrics only you don't get that luxury.

                                                I also get the feeling he simply wants to use one foot switch on the pedal to select a specific song just like his reverb settings , to do that ST3 needs to be able to receive this midi message and understand which song he wants , this is not available on ST3 at the moment.

                                                    Chamery thats what i thought, the only way to do this would be to have your setlist in order with your keyboard so when you hit play on your keyboard you trigger start ST3 , it plays through and stops then you hit play again and the next ST3 song plays , this is very limiting because you cant jump around your song set list and you have everything perfectly timed so you are very much fixed to the programming.
                                                    St3 cant recognise specific midi command to choose a particular song perhaps ST4 might, Peter might be able to help

                                                      • LLishy

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                                                        Damir even in the other song modes you can’t hit next song whilst the current one is playing, which is what he is wanting to do.
                                                        ST does have a midi song select command, but that won’t help in his situation.

                                                            Lishy yes i know , we would not want that as it would kill our backing, thats why it should be capable of doing that in lyrics only because it has no audio, so if the user wants to interupt the play mode and move to another text he should be able to do that in lyrics only mode.
                                                            This is something Peter needs to think about.

                                                                Lishy ST does have a midi song select command, but that won’t help in his situation.

                                                                That’s interesting, how does that work ?
                                                                So you can send a midi message from a foot pedal to select a specific song?

                                                                    Damir exactly that or from a DAW perhaps.

                                                                        Damir perhaps an option for either but not sure how that would work in V4 where he is proposing having one song mode.

                                                                          Lishy exactly that or from a DAW perhaps.

                                                                          I don’t think that’s possible right now as that would involve each song having a specific midi program number in ST3 , I know you can select numbering to the song order but that would change when reordering songs,
                                                                          Perhaps what we should have in Playlists only is a system when you create a playlist the first 127 songs in that playlist can be recalled by a foot's witch via a midi command , the only thing with that is if you re order your playlist the foot switch commands become wrong.
                                                                          So I don’t know how Peter is going to implement this you almost want an ability to enter the midi command in every song so it stays with it no matter what position and can be recalled by the same command on the foot switch.

                                                                              Damir I don’t think that’s possible right now as that would involve each song having a specific midi program number in ST3

                                                                              It is already possible. Scroll down to the bottom of song details.