Automatic MIDI send to fire redundant laptop?

[kevinmcdonough]

hey

This may (hopefully) be something simple that I've missed in the software options and in my search through the forum, but I'm looking to set up a redundant computer playing the same playlist as the primary one, so that as many people do in the even of a crash I can switch over.

With two cheap USB MIDI adapters I'd like to just link them together so that when I hit go on the first one the second one receives a MIDI command and fires too. I realise that this wont work properly if I jump cues or use the mouse/cursor keys to a different place on the cue list, but this is rare enough and the playlists are set in stone enough that the very rare time it does happen I can just manually move both.

I do realise that, if it comes to it, I could go through and copy a midi send cue to auto trigger with every manual cue, but it seems a bit of a faff. Is there a way to just globally turn on an auto send for every press of Go?

There seems to be a way to switch this on for the receiving system, and in the Cue Control Devices panel of the show properties you can fairly easily set a midi in and have it respond to note 0 for GO, or a numbered note to trigger a specific numbered cue, and this looks like it'll work globally through the playlist. But I cant seem to find a matching global setting for the sending one so that it just sends a Note 0 on every press of GO.

Does that feature exist? Or is it something that could be easily added?


k

[Mike Daniell]

I cant seem to find a matching global setting for the sending one so that it just sends a Note 0 on every press of GO.

I've had a number of requests for the ability to support a slave computer but there are complications in doing this. However, your suggestion (above) is a good idea that should not be too difficult to implement. This would go part-way to supporting a slave computer, and the concept could be extended to include other functions, such as 'stop all', 'go to top', etc.