How does azMidi work?
Suppose you have two or more keyboards, five midi modules and midi
controlled audio effects which you want to control in real time. And you
want easy access to your sheet music during your performance. You like
to control everything with one floorboard instead of several remote
controls or diving into those nasty menu’s while on stage.
Suppose the memory of your current floorboard is not enough or it can’t
do complex tasks. You need a complete solution that helps you
manage your customized and perfectly smooth running performance.
azMidi does all these things for
you.
Then you need a software program which will make things easy for you.
azMidi can control complicated routines but will still be simple enough
to help you through any live gig. Because azMidi will work for you.
Azmidi will allow you to focus on your music instead of on your gear.
Steps
azMidi can program all your songs and program them into ‘steps’. All
these special moments you need to push a button, pedal or
parameter change.
But, how can I program my songs?
Songs
azMidi
will save each song into text
(ascii)
format which will contain all those steps. (your setup changes and
statements are stored in this .txt format). This script will tell azMidi
what to do.
In
the Song file, you can store all your parameter changes and allow
yourself integrated control. Now every "step" can change patches on your
synths, send a program-change to a reverb and even select a 'wah' from
the guitarist's foot-pedals. All your complicated setup changes of
multiple midi-devices, midi controlled audio and light devices are now
changed with the press of either a button, a note on a midi instrument,
a midi footswitch, or even the touch of azMidi's Next or Previous step
on-screen buttons using either a mouse or touch-screen. How you control
your show using azMidi is completely up to you and your available
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Advanced
statements
Everything that has midi in it can now be controlled from one spot. You
can imagine the power this will give your show. Sound, light and effects
all changed with the next press of your ‘pedal’. Your show will gain
enormously in quality without the need to expand your staff beyond the
reach of your budget
Embedded Midi Router Patch Bay
The embedded router is really a Midi
Patch Bay that can handle up to 16 ports.
His job is to route every event received at the input ports toward the
right output ports; everything is done through the azMidi grammar you
already use for making songs.
It is possibile to generate split zones, request an automatic transpose,
re-channel the input message to other output channels (more than one
also) and re-control a received controller.
Here a sample of the related commands:
ROUTE ADD PRESET 100 NOTES=40,70 TRANSPOSE=+2
ROUTE ADD MANUAL KEYBOARD1,PIANO
ROUTE DELETE PRESET 100
ROUTE DELETE MANUAL KEYBOARD1,PIANO
ROUTE DELETE ALL
Using these commands inside your azMidi songs you will no longer need to
spend lot of money to buy expensive Patch Bay (>$400 to buy a Patch Bay
with re-channelisation system) and you will start to recall your
preferred routes by preset number (100 in the sample, like a Program
Change) or by input and output predefined names (KEYBOARD1 and PIANO in
the sample).
There is a further feature that you cannot find in hardware routers: the
Automatic Panic for Inactive Routes. Let's imagine...
Evolution
azMidi will let you grow with every piece of midi-controlled equipment
you add to the equation. And in the end you will still be in control of
the show. And remember. If your final rehearsal now is right, you will
be ‘right’ again show after show.
Thank you for choosing azMidi.
[thank you Frans van den Berge for translation] |
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