Loading audio + video files using MIDI notes
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:27 pm
Inside the little file/folder selection boxes (in the middle of Maxi-Patch main window), press the little "MIDI" button. A new view will appear. This is for mapping MIDI note values to file/folder selections. To enable MIDI, press "MIDI enable". Now when you press any note on your MIDI devices, you should see the note number and the channel appear in the little boxes labeled "note" and "channel".
The way the video clips are assigned to the notes on your MIDI keyboard is by the order in which they appear in the folder where they are stored on your hard drive. This order is according to the alphanumeric value of the name of the file. You can know the order in which they will be mapped by going to the Finder (OSX) or Explorer (WinXP) and looking
at the folder where they are stored using the "List" view. Also, you can drag the folder to the file/folder selection box (main view) and it will appear in the menus.
You can select a note on your MIDI keyboard that selects the first file in any folder. This is done by entering values for "first file select (note):" in the order NOTE, CHANNEL.
You can also select the number of files in the folder which will be assigned to MIDI notes by entering a number in the "number of notes in span" box. If you have 20 keys on your MIDI keyboard which are not mapped to other functions, then enter the value "20" into this box. Enter the Note and Channel number of the first of these 20 keys into the "first file select (note):" boxes. But if your keyboard has 64 keys, put in "64" to this box. That way you could conceivably map 64 different video clips to 64 different keys on your keyboard.
Now, when you select a certain folder in this file/folder selection box, you will see that the contents of the folder appear in the menu below the folder menu. If there are N movie files in the folder, then you can map each of these N files to a MIDI key, starting with the MIDI note number you selected in "first file select (note):", and going sequentially in note number up to (starting_note + N-1).
You can select two other notes on your MIDI keyboard to change the movie file selection from the left movie player to the right movie player, etc...
It's really very easy once you get used to it. And keep in mind the same applies to both audio and video files.
Another little feature of this MIDI mapping is that if you hit a certain note and it loads a certain file, when you repeatedly hit that same note, the file is rewound to the beginning (so you don't have to press that little "|<" button....).
The way the video clips are assigned to the notes on your MIDI keyboard is by the order in which they appear in the folder where they are stored on your hard drive. This order is according to the alphanumeric value of the name of the file. You can know the order in which they will be mapped by going to the Finder (OSX) or Explorer (WinXP) and looking
at the folder where they are stored using the "List" view. Also, you can drag the folder to the file/folder selection box (main view) and it will appear in the menus.
You can select a note on your MIDI keyboard that selects the first file in any folder. This is done by entering values for "first file select (note):" in the order NOTE, CHANNEL.
You can also select the number of files in the folder which will be assigned to MIDI notes by entering a number in the "number of notes in span" box. If you have 20 keys on your MIDI keyboard which are not mapped to other functions, then enter the value "20" into this box. Enter the Note and Channel number of the first of these 20 keys into the "first file select (note):" boxes. But if your keyboard has 64 keys, put in "64" to this box. That way you could conceivably map 64 different video clips to 64 different keys on your keyboard.
Now, when you select a certain folder in this file/folder selection box, you will see that the contents of the folder appear in the menu below the folder menu. If there are N movie files in the folder, then you can map each of these N files to a MIDI key, starting with the MIDI note number you selected in "first file select (note):", and going sequentially in note number up to (starting_note + N-1).
You can select two other notes on your MIDI keyboard to change the movie file selection from the left movie player to the right movie player, etc...
It's really very easy once you get used to it. And keep in mind the same applies to both audio and video files.
Another little feature of this MIDI mapping is that if you hit a certain note and it loads a certain file, when you repeatedly hit that same note, the file is rewound to the beginning (so you don't have to press that little "|<" button....).