Controlling Propresenter from within Cantabile

Cantabile
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I play in a worship band where the song lyrics are sent to a projector from a separate pc, but we have a staff shortage at the moment. Is there a way of controlling this second pc from within Cantabile, which is on my stage laptop? The slides actually advance forwards and backwards with left and right arrow keys, or with a presentation controller, in much the same way as Powerpoint does.

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Hi David,

If the program that does the slides has MIDI control you might be able to control it from yours using rtpMIDI via a LAN cable. If those items check off you should have the makings to create the Cantabile bindings to do it.

Dave

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Thanks Dave. I’ll look into it, but our Propresenter expert has just been rushed into hospital so I might have some techy detective work to do!

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You could use Bome Midi Translator to convert MIDI to keystrokes on the presenter PC, so

  • send MIDI from Cantabile to the presenter PC via rtpMIDI
  • convert to left / right keystrokes and send to the presentation software via Bome

All done - and no need to understand the presenter software :wink:

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Nice! Yes, indeed. I was going to suggest that, as well. I have used Bome to launch videos from VLC for performance.