Midi Control Message To Fire Sound Cue?

[Conner Purzycki]

So here is the setup,

I would like to fire a rimshot sound cue from one of my user defined keys on the ls9. What I hoped on doing was using one of my unused channels, link the on and off to a user defined key and put the corresponding control change in Qlab for that cue. Unfortunately the ls9 does not allow you to do this (to my knowledge). The only control change I could find that could be toggled from a user defined key is an effect bypass which by chance I had one effect I was not using. It works intermittently. The key deactivates the bypass, so a control change of zero is sent to Qlab, fires the sound cue, then on a half second delay it sends same control change back to reactive the bypass to arm its self again. 

Does anyone know of a better method of doing this? It happens I do need to use the effect in the show now. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!!!!!

- Conner

[ra byn (robin) taylor]

Im not sure I understand exactly what you're trying to do but in my experience you need to setup a trigger for the rimshot and another to stop it. I would not try to use the same UDK. I would either use (2) different ones or just let the rimshot play out. Note that Qlab won't let you retrigger an active cue so if you need rimshots that overlap, you might want to setup a trigger for a group of rimshot cues that loops so that the same button triggers the same sound but you're using more than one cue (targeting the same audio file). I'm doing this with the cannon in a Tosca opera right now. C3 from keyboard in pit triggers a cuelist that loops back to the top after 3 triggers. But if you want to be able to start and stop something, I'd use (2) UDK and set them up NOT to toggle.

ra byn (robin)

[Andy Lang]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 10:16 PM Conner Purzycki cjp...@gmail.com wrote:

The only control change I could find that could be toggled from a user defined key is an effect bypass which by chance I had one effect I was not using. It works intermittently. The key deactivates the bypass, so a control change of zero is sent to Qlab, fires the sound cue, then on a half second delay it sends same control change back to reactive the bypass to arm its self again. 

Does anyone know of a better method of doing this?

Hi Conner,

First, the trick to avoiding that on/off dance…after you capture the button in QLab as your hotkey, change the value to “any”. That will allow either an on or an off to trigger the hotkey, so you don’t have to “reset” it.

Another popular option on the M7 and LS series is to use a spare mute group, that will also send a MIDI message like the effect on/off.

-Andy

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