Midi Prompt - About the Settings Tab

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The Settings Tab lets you configure the following MIDI and display parameters: 
  • The Blue box with 'NextPrompt' etc in it is just to show you the Midi messages you need to put in your pedal for these actions.
  • Using Midi Learn

    You may already know them, but you don't need to know the midi parameter values your controller sends because MidiPrompt can learn them almost automatically. To use Midi Learn:

    Display Type

    MidiPrompt can display in either Text Line or File mode; which are mutually exclusive, meaning only one or the other can be displayed at any time.
    (But you can have more than one copy of the program running – see the Advanced section) 

    Text Line Mode

    Display a line of text in the Display tab window when a Midi Message is received. The list of text lines is entered and shown on the Text List Edit tab. Each line has a line number next to it that corresponding to the Midi PC or CC value MidiPrompt receives. In text mode, you can navigate to the Next and Previous text lines using midi control or the TouchPad window.
    Of course in this mode you can’t Page up or down but you can move forward and back through the lines with the TouchPad.
    Selecting Text Line mode removes the Lyric and File List Edit tabs from view.  

    File Mode

    This mode will display files in the Lyric Tab window when a Midi message is received.
    The list of files is similar to the Text List Edit tab, but the text entered here is the name of the file that MidiPrompt will try to display. Each line has a number corresponding to the Midi PC or CC value MidiPrompt needs to receive to display the file. See the File List Edit Tab description for more information on file formats and examples.
    Selecting File mode removes the Display and Text List Edit tabs from view. 

    Options

    Suppress Number in Display

    The line number is displayed in both the File Mode and the Line Display Mode. This can be helpful especially when setting things up and testing.  On the Display Tab, you can hide the Line Numbers by checking this box. 

    Output Midi on list click

    With this selected a Midi message (the same one that MidiPrompt needs to receive to display this file) is sent out of the PC every time you click on a line in the list editing page. You can use this to see what the Midi message should be to get to get this item or to trigger another PC or synth so everything keeps in step while you are setting things up. 

    Output Midi String List

    Want to change the one Midi message comming out of your controller into a whole lot of other midi messages?
    You can specify a list of midi messages(strings) to send to the Midi output device at the same time as MidiPrompt displaysd a line or file.
    For example, you can use this to control the setup of all your gear for the next song.
    To build a set of the midi strings, go to the list edit page (either Line or File), right click on the line you want to associate the extra Midi messages with and select  Midi String (Hex) to add/edit the midi string list. The numbers must be 2 characters and in hex eg B2 07 93
    Each line is treated as a separate message. You can have multiple Midi messages on one line, but why complicate things.
    Comments in the Midi list? Except for spaces, if there are any non-hex characters in the line, the line won't be sent, so for a comment you can write anything on the line with out stuffing things up .
    If you would prefer to edit the file in a text editor , you can work that way too. When you save the file it is just a text file and you will find the midi strings at the end of the file.
    The midi string file must reside in the same directory as MidiPrompt. 

    Touch Pad

    If you use a touchscreen computer, you can use the touchpad to navigate in MidiPrompt. Some users may prefer this to using a midi controller! Check the Touch Pad box to enable the touch pad control surface. The touch pad has the following buttons: 

    What Midi Values Control the MidiPrompt Display Navigation?

    Both Patch change and Continuous Controller (CC) can have 128 values (0 to 127 although the MidiPrompt lists start at line 1) so you would think that you can have 128 Files or Text lines, but the program uses Midi numbers 124 125 126 127 for  PageUp, PageDn, NextFile and PrevFile
    So you only get 124 files/lines before you need to load in a new list. 
     
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