Hi again,
I am trying to get midi triggering of SFX loops to work consistently.
First time I tried it worked without a problem, but when I am trying to set it up in a different project nothing is triggered, so I am trying to figure out what I am doing differently.
First, I am using another software as midi controller via loopMIDI which creates virtual MIDI ports. LSX recognizes the incoming MIDI without any issues.
I create some SFX loops and save them.
I send midi notes from my software and the edit MIDI key number window comes up.
I click load SFX cue, select my cue and click ok.
I start the show, pause it where there is nothing going on in the timeline (I guess there is a more elegant way of doing this?), then trigger the sfx cues with midi.
This works fine in the first project both with external midi and the built in midi keyboard.
In the other project nothing happens when I try to trigger the SFX cues, although I have checked many times that the mappings are correct (and they show up on the midikeyboard when I click on the corresponding note).
Any clue why this works in one project and not in the other?
Related questions:
Is the only way of knowing which midi key is mapped to which SFX loop to send the midinote so the MIDI key number window opens? Actually you donīt really see anything then either, you either need to edit the SFX cue (to see the name) or create a screenshot (which might not be so helpful if you have several SFX loops which are just small variations of each other).
According to the living manual you can create a screenshot while creating midi mappings by clicking on edit sfx cue and then click on screenshot, but that doesnīt work for me:
The only way I have figured out how to get the MIDI key number window to open is while the show is not running, and to get a screenshot the show needs to be running/paused to have an image in the preview window.
So the way I have done it is to start the timeline then pause it, move the timeline cursor to the sfxloop, open the sfxloop, click screenshot and then save it.
It would be really useful to have a list of the mapping of the MIDI keys to SFX cues, so hopefully this exists already?
thanks,
hc