Midi
Prompt
- About the Settings Tab
The
Settings Tab
lets you configure
the following MIDI and display parameters:
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Midi Input Devices
- Select MIDI Channel to control MidiPrompt file and paging
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Midi Output Devices
- Select MIDI Devices to receive MidiPrompt's MIDI output
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Midi Thru
(on/off) - Check to enable (ON), uncheck to disable MIDI Thru (OFF)
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Midi Channel
- Assign the MIDI receive channel to control MidiPrompt. This also sets the channel of the output Midi message when using the ‘Output Midi on list click’. It doesn’t affect the Midi String List Output.
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Midi Message
- Assign control of
MidiPrompt using either PC or CC messages
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Midi Learn
- Just click and send a Midi message with your controller to get MidiPrompt to learn what channel
and type of Midi message you want to use.
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Controller
- This box only appears if you select ‘Controller (CC)’. It sets the Midi Continuous Controller
number that MidiPrompt will use.
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:
- Select the
Settings
tab and then click the
Midi Learn
button, then move the control knob, pedal or button on your controller to assign all the Midi
control parameters. Now it’s set up ready to go.
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:
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Page Up/Dn
- moves the page up or down in the display a displayed page at a time
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Line Up/Dn
- moves the page up
or down in the display a single line at a time
(Theses are deactivated, of course, in Text Line mode)
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Previous/Next
- moves to the previous
or next file or line depending on the mode
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.
Getting Started
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Display
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Lyric
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Text List Edit
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File List Edit
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Midi Strings
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Advanced