Use case question

[sekim]

After a months long hiatus due to things beyond my control I’m hopefully back to music for a while.

As such, I have a question for which version of Cantabile is required to support the following use case.

I need to have Cantabile play back a midi file that contains midi control signals at certain points in a song and sends those midi signals outbound into the midi hardware world. The goal is to automate complex foot switching for guitar. The targets of automation are a mix of external hardware devices and software running inside of Cantabile.

I assume this is possible? And I’m guessing I need Performer to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[Corky]

Good to see you back!
This may not answer your question, but I thought it might give you some ideas:

Trigger status change with Transport

OK, one step at a time: create song states in Cantabile for the different configurations you need over the course of the song (you need Cantabile Performer for this!). The first state may be configured to play a piano, the next to play a Hammond, etc. I am assuming you know how to use song states - if not, see @brad’s excellent tutorial videos create a MIDI track in Reaper or any other DAW that has nothing in it but a specific MIDI command at the times in the track when you want to change…

Trigger status change with Transport

See here: Sneak Peak - Transport Triggers