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Set List Maker => MIDI Help => Topic started by: arlo on March 16, 2015, 04:50:50 PM

Title: Playing Standard MIDI Files with Sweet MIDI Player
Post by: arlo on March 16, 2015, 04:50:50 PM
UPDATE JUNE 10, 2018: In the new app versions released today, you can attach an SMF file (.mid) to a song and play it back just as you would with a "real" audio recording. This should eliminate the need for another app like Sweet MIDI Player. Details are in "To play music from a Standard MIDI File" on the Sending MIDI page:

http://www.arlomedia.com/apps/setlistmaker/tutorials/sending_MIDI.html
http://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/sending_MIDI.html

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Many people have asked about playing Standard MIDI Files from Set List Maker on iOS. Since Set List Maker uses standard iOS audio frameworks, it can only play audio formats that iTunes can play. But if you have a MIDI player app that can run in the background and can be controlled with MIDI messages, you can combine that app's MIDI playback functionality with the rest of Set List Maker's functionality.

Here's a tutorial for using Sweet MIDI Player (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sweet-midi-player/id477678002?mt=8) as a background MIDI player for Set List Maker:


Note: Next time you use this setup, you might have to relaunch Sweet MIDI Player, tap Playlists in the bottom toolbar, tap the Set List Maker playlist, tap the first item in the playlist, and tap the pause button. Then you can switch back to Set List Maker and start selecting songs.

Note: If you want to add MIDI sequences to your playlist in Sweet MIDI Player, you should always add them to the end. If you rearrange the playlist, you will break the links between your Set List Maker songs and your Sweet MIDI Player playlist items.
Title: Re: Playing Standard MIDI Files with Sweet MIDI Player
Post by: Rmftc on August 12, 2017, 06:03:42 AM
Arlo, thanks for this detailed description! As SetList Maker is going to loose it's db sync capability I'm trying to setup BandHelper now on the go ...

That's why I tried to translate your description for the BandHelper setup. Unfortunetaly I failed already at point 5, as I could not find "Song Selection Actions" in "Settings > Automation > Song Selection Actions" (in German: "Einstellungen > Fernsteuerung > Song Auswahl Aktionen")

Would it be too much for you to help with a description for BandHelper Midi Playback enablement also?

I (and a bunch of other guys, I'm sure) would appreciate that greatly!! :-)

Ah, another one: do you know of alternatives for The Sweet Midi Player? (Speed is wobbling and download from DropBox is killing the midi files, and, in fact, it sounds terrible ...)
Title: Re: Playing Standard MIDI Files with Sweet MIDI Player
Post by: arlo on August 12, 2017, 10:01:53 AM
The setup is the same in BandHelper and Set List Maker, but these instructions were a couple years old and the song selection action settings have moved. I just updated step 5.

I don't know of alternatives, sorry. I assume there are some, I just don't personally know what they are.
Title: Re: Playing Standard MIDI Files with Sweet MIDI Player
Post by: davidgolden99 on August 08, 2018, 07:17:00 AM
Hey, it worked! It's amazing what happens when one reads the instructions.  :)