How do I use triggers

[Allen]

I’m currently in rehearsals, music directing, for a production of Green Day’s American Idiot. The orchestration calls for, in addition to 2 guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, three string players - violin, viola and cello. Due to size constraints we’re not able to have the live string players.

There are some places in the score where the piano/keyboard is tacit and I can easily switch over to covering string parts however there are also a number of incidences where the strings play at the same time as the piano/keys and it would not be possible to play both. Some of them I can easily leave out but there are several where the string parts are crucial or would significantly add to the sound.

So what I’m wanting to know:

A) Is it possible that I could sequence/record the string parts using my DAW and use triggers with, say, a foot switch or one of the transport buttons on my MIDI controller keyboard to cause the recorded.sequenced parts to play.

B) If so, can anyone give me, or point me towards, a rough rundown of how to make this happen? I’ve read through the User Guide and it doesn’t seem to quite give me the info I’m looking for.

Regards,
Allen Lindsey

[dave_dore]

Hi Allen,

Yes, you can do this with Cantabile 3 Performer and you don’t really need a trigger if it is a manual switching event so you could use a binding. There are 2 parts to it. One is loading the media player or players, this is explained here : Media Players and there is a video here : Cantabile Videos. Once you have loaded the media you need to create a binding between the keyboard controller and the program. This is described in the guide here : Bindings. A typical binding would look like this:

and your routing page would look like this, except you would have loaded your file into the media player.

Hope this helps you along