Midi-Triggering in general

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Hi I'm from Germany, I hope my english is good enought that you'll understand what i would like to know.

I'm searching for a tool that can play Comercial- and Goal-Jingles during an Footballmatch (.wav;.mp3) by pressing a Key on my MIDI-Keyboard. I allready have an Keyboard and MIDI interface which works on my Computer.

Midi triggering in general is Possible with this program,right?
But is it possible with every kind of (of cours MIDI-Keyboard) Keyboard and an MIDI Interface?

Thanks for help CU
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I downloaded the Demoversion of SCS but I havn't found an option in the Edit-Window to set a key on my MIDI-Keyboard for a Cue, only a Key from the PC Keyboard can be set as Trigger. Or am I blind?
Or does this only work in the professional Version?

[Mike Daniell]

Your English is fine. I wish I could speak other languages!

Yes, you should have no problems activating SCS cues from your MIDI keyboard and you can try this out in the demo program. What you need to do is

1. Click on the menu item View / Options and then select the tab MIDI Devices and Control
2. Select the MIDI In device that you will connect your keyboard to
3. Tick the checkbox labelled Control cues by MIDI input messages
4. Select the Note On radio button
5. Select the MIDI Channel that your keyboard is set to send on

These settings will cause SCS to respond to MIDI Notes 1-127 (C#0 - G10, although some keyboards may have a different octave range).

For what you want to do, I suggest you set up your wav and mp3 files as Hot Key cues in SCS, and give them cue labels like Q1, Q2, etc. The number component will be mapped to the MIDI Note number. Numbers do not have to be sequential, eg you can pick numbers that map to the black keys and skip the numbers that map to the white keys.

See the SCS Help for more details on MIDI Cue Numbering, etc, or feel free to ask if anything is not clear.

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Thanks alot, now it works perfectly.
But is it also possible to toggle the Cues? What I mean is that pressing the Key once lets the cue start and pressing the same Key again lets the Cue stop.
And is it possible that the cue only plays while keeping the key pressed and stops automaticly when I stop pressing the key.
And which Version do I need to use these features, Lite, Standart or Professionell?

[Mike Daniell]

Currently the only way to stop a cue early is to set up a Stop cue for that cue, or a Stop cue to 'Stop all earlier cues'.

If you only want to play one cue at a time then you could set up all your audio files as hot key cues, and following these (at the end) have a single Stop cue set to 'Stop all earlier cues'. Give this a cue label that will map to a convenient MIDI Note Number (ie a convenient keyboard key). Then play any hot key cue you like, and you can stop it by pressing this 'Stop cue' key.

I do have outstanding requests for the features you are looking for, so I will be enhancing the hot key functionality later.

You need the Professional license to enable MIDI control.