How to add MIDI buttons In Set List Maker to songlyric screens?

[Lange]

How do I add a MIDI button to the layout of a songlyric screen?

Since I prefer to have my lyrics and chords displayed large and clearly on my iPad screen, I typically use the 'Full-Screen Lyrics' view.

As I understand it, Set List Maker allows the placement of one or more buttons at the top of the lyrics screen. I would like to be able to add button(s) so I can tap one of these to send a MIDI signal to my Wolfmix W1 MK3, which would toggle a physical 'Flash button' on the Wolfmix. In this way you can for instance temporarily activate or deactivate a Strobe-, Blinder-, Smoke machine- or Blackout function. Tapping the button again in SLM should then turn that 'Flash button' off on the Wolfmix.

I have already created the necessary MIDI presets in SLM to toggle the six Wolfmix 'Flash buttons.' I've tested these by selecting them from the MIDI preset list, and they work as expected: the first tap activates the 'Flash button,' and a second tap deactivates it.

Now I'd like to add one or more of the MIDI buttons to the top of the lyrics screen for specific songs in Set List Maker, so that I can toggle a 'Flash button' on my Wolfmix during a live performance. How can I do that?

Looking forward to your response, Arlo. Thanks in advance for your help!

Roel

[arlo]

If you are showing lyrics full-screen, you cannot add other buttons to that. The solution is to use a layout that's almost full-screen, like the Overlapping Buttons layout.

[Lange]

I have to change the layout to 'Overlapping buttons' layout.

I'll dive further in the Set List Maker tutorials, I hope I succeed.

[Lange]

I think that the option 'changing the layout to 'Overlapping buttons' isn't the right option for me.

As a result of this change, the text size has become slightly smaller, which means that for many of my song lyrics the bottom part (the last line) no longer fits on the same screenpage. I now have to manually swipe up to bring that part into view.

By the way, I have successfully added MIDI buttons to the songs.
In this context, I wonder:  is it possible to add the option 'MIDI button' to certain songs, and add the option 'Multiple MIDI buttons' to a number of other songs in the same show? Currently, if I select one of these options, it gets applied to all songs in the show.

One other issue I haven't been able to resolve is making the MIDI-icon and text within the 'Multiple MIDI buttons' area clearly legible; as it stands, the text is virtually unreadable.

[arlo]

"the text size has become slightly smaller"

Switching from the Full-Screen Lyrics to the Overlapping Buttons layout wouldn't change the text size, but would make the document viewer about 5% shorter. If you have sized your lyrics to exactly fit the previous height, you would need to resize them about 5% smaller to fit.

"is it possible to add the option 'MIDI button' to certain songs, and add the option 'Multiple MIDI buttons' to a number of other songs in the same show"

No, the layout is used for all songs until you change to a different layout. You cannot assign layouts to songs.

"as it stands, the text is virtually unreadable"

If you are placing the MIDI buttons over the document viewer and the document viewer is always full of text, it will be difficult to read. This works best when there is typically empty space where the lyrics are not filling the width and height of the document viewer.

If you want to have your screen completely full of lyrics (width and height) but also access multiple MIDI presets directly, you might need to access them with a screen gesture or foot switch instead of buttons on the screen:

http://www.setlistmaker.com/tutorials/app_control.html

Another option is to use the Expanded Buttons layout and edit the document viewer to appear full-screen over that layout. Then you can switch between the full-screen lyrics and the MIDI buttons with a double-tap.

And in case you didn't know, you can access all of a song's MIDI presets from the single MIDI button by long-pressing it.