Hello,
I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I have the app on my android connected to WIDI Master and receiving [F8] clock instructions as expected (as viewed from the Activity log).
I can go into the app's MIDI Preset area and click on the preset and it sends the data, changes the bank on the device, and logs the event. So, connection to the device and the preset configured to work correctly is all good.
My problem is when i try to use if from the app while switching songs. I have the preset added to a song and I thought that by swiping to that song OR clicking on the title of the song from within a Set List would cause the MIDI data to be sent. Is that not the case? What step have I missed?
-th
See "To trigger functions automatically when starting or finishing a song" on this page:
http://www.setlistmaker.com/tutorials/app_control.html
Sorry, just realized I was in the wrong app section. I should be in Bandhelper thread.
Hi, apologies. I am super confused. Is there no Bandhelper forum, or are these apps essentially the same?
Anyway, I tired the following:
"To select specific songs with a MIDI device
Most app control actions aren't tied to specific songs, but you can map MIDI messages to specific songs. Then if you have a MIDI device that makes it easy to send arbitrary messages, you can use these messages to navigate directly to the desired songs.
Find out whether your MIDI device can send Song Select messages or Program Change messages. Song Select messages were designed for exactly this purpose, but are limited to 128 songs, and are less commonly used.
Navigate to Settings > App Control, scroll down in the Actions list and click Song Number.
Click either MIDI System Messages or MIDI Program Messages, then select Song Select or Program Change. (These are the only options for each message type.)
Navigate to Settings > Audio & MIDI and turn on Assign Song Select Numbers or Assign Incoming Programs. You will need this to enter song values in the next step.
Navigate to Songs and click a song title to edit it. You'll see either a MIDI Song Number field or a MIDI Program Change field, with accompanying Bank MSB and LSB fields. Enter unique values between 0 and 127 into these fields.
Program your MIDI device to send the values you entered for each song.
Navigate to a show or smart list that contains the songs you want to select. Then send the messages you programmed from your MIDI device."
But still nothing gets sent, or logged in the activity log. I am still missing something.
You posted in the Set List Maker area of the forum. Here are the instructions for BandHelper:
https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/app_control.html#selection_completion
Thanks Arlo. My apologies for being in the wrong board. So many similar questions it had me fooled.
The new instructions were the mostly the same as the other one. But I went back through them again and tried different variations to no avail.
Should I put a ticket in or send more documentation (to the correct board of course)?
-th
Please send a help ticket and then send the troubleshooting info from the app so I can see your settings.