creating and changing scenes via midi messages

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creating and changing scenes via midi messages

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Hello to all.
I use my computer to play live. I do not play dance music with sequencer etc., but I play a lot of changing instruments like guitars, pianos, violins, synthesizers and effects in general.
What are the software in linux that can load instruments / effects, create scenes and change them via midi messages? Most windows are used in Cantabile Performer or Forte Brainspawn among many others, but Linux still could not find it. :(
Can someone help me? :)
There are tutorials about it?
thank you
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Re: creating and changing scenes via midi messages

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Pretty much any of them could do that I suppose. In Qtractor and Ardour you could have a different synth each midi track and assigned to a particular midi channel. Then you would just change the midi channel on your midi keyboard and it would play the corresponding synth in sequencer.

Maybe with some creative midi mapping you could assign fx to enable or disable or 100% wet/dry etc.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking.
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You can also using mididings which is a python script to changes scenes, triggered for example by program change messages. You could use this in conjunction with either standalone virtual instruments or plugin instruments hosted in, say, carla, ardour, or qtractor.
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Re: creating and changing scenes via midi messages

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varpa wrote:You can also using mididings which is a python script to changes scenes, triggered for example by program change messages. You could use this in conjunction with either standalone virtual instruments or plugin instruments hosted in, say, carla, ardour, or qtractor.

Thanks for responding. I see I'll need to understand a little programming. Does mididings can make various changes to a single midi command? I need to study more about it. I've been looking for a software called LUPPP. http://openavproductions.com/luppp/ Although it does not support VST, using the jack can route the signal to other software that supports VST. It will be great if he can create more than one output of each track to the jack. Despite being a software to dance, synchronized to music, I think he can help me. If you think about it the ability jack in making many connections, need only one software that creates numerous entrances and exits, and that could give mute or bypass for each of them, and recording everything on a record that could be changed through commands midi.
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Re: creating and changing scenes via midi messages

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sysrqer wrote:Pretty much any of them could do that I suppose. In Qtractor and Ardour you could have a different synth each midi track and assigned to a particular midi channel. Then you would just change the midi channel on your midi keyboard and it would play the corresponding synth in sequencer.

Maybe with some creative midi mapping you could assign fx to enable or disable or 100% wet/dry etc.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking.
Really if I used only one instrument / effect until a time would, however are complex with overlapping music instruments and more effects.
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Re: creating and changing scenes via midi messages

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If you use mididings with output to say, Ardour or Carla you can make arbitrarily complicated scenes triggered by program change messages. For examples of this see the mididings documentation (http://das.nasophon.de/mididings) or my post to the AVLinux forum about using Ardour as a virtual instrument host (http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index ... pic=3300.0). To control parameters you could map midi controller to Ardour or Carla controls which I have not done myself but which can be done.
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