Stop turning pages. If you're a worship leader and you use able to live
on stage and use music stand by planning center for charts there's no reason
for you to have to reach over and swipe your chart. Hey this is Will diet
today I want to show you how to use Ableton Live to control music stand
from planning center. It's super easy to do. I'm gonna show you a couple
ways to make that happen so let's get started. Now to start with.
Let's talk about how to connect to the iPod. Again I'm gonna show you a more
advanced way in just a second.
That gives you a lot more stability but lets just out the fastest easiest
way to try this out. So I'm going to use what's called RTP MIDI to create
a network MIDI session between my Mac and my iPad. Now I've created a couple
of different videos showing me how to do this a few different ways and
I link to those below. But I want to show you how to do this really quickly
so I'm going to go into audio MIDI setup. I want to double click on network
first station and I have both of these connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
So as soon as I go into MIDI network setup here and have my session enabled
I've got a name in the bon jour section here.
It's enabled who may connect to me is set to anyone. And you've seen the
directory as soon as I connect. You see Will's iPod show up so I'm going
to click on my iPod and hit connect. Now over the participants section
you see my iPod shop in that list. Now what that means is my computer is
now connected via Wi-Fi to my iPod so I can send Mitty between Ableton
Live and my iPod super straightforward and easy to do something to close.
Audio mini setup I'm going to go into Ableton and what I need to do is
tell Ableton Hey route your your MIDI out of Ableton into network session
something to do command comma which takes me into my preferences I'm going
to go to link MIDI now I'm dealing with the output here some scroll down
to output until I see network session one I'm going to go ahead and enable track.
Now what that means is I can send me out of my tracks down network session
one to the iPod and that's what we want. Now in order to make this easy
I've already created and I have a set of cues particularly for music stand
if you want to get these cues you can hide it from CSA dot com slash music stand.
Get these completely free. So these cues are already assigned to functions
and planning. So if you download accused file you're gonna have to assign
these to music stand the first time so let me show you how to do that I'm
gonna get out of my chart I'm going to go back and I'm gonna go over here
to settings and I'm gonna to scroll down to where I see midi input.
Now you see four options here. Next page previous page toggle metronome
and toggle audio player. Let's talk about how to assign these clips to
those functions and again you can see on my iPod I've already done that.
So what I'm to do is go up to this clip. OK. Next page I've got my No I've
got it loaded and ready to go. So what I want to do is go down to MIDI
to here and you can see it's set to route to network session 1 which means
everything from this track is gonna go to network MIDI into the iPod.
So I'm going to select next page. So that's highlighted.
It's expecting and looking for many note. Now I'm just gonna click next
page and then hit spacebar and what that's gonna do is it's gonna find
the mini note I sent which is midi note 0 and you see this going up 0 1
2 3 4. So for the next one I would hit previous page and I'd hit that note
and then press spacebar and you'll see it assigns one go through and do
this one time and then you're good to go. And we've got our Qs file so
we're good to make this happen. So now what I'm going to do is go back
into my plan here and I'm going to open my chart and let me show you how
you can use these cues to program exactly when your pages will turn.
So I'm to open a new able to live session And I'm just going to lay these
out against life's timeline. I'm going to open the browser over here to
the left and I'm going to pull from my QS file to lay them into my session.
Now to learn how to add files Silva's browser check out the video I linked
below on understanding lives browser. So what I would do is expand my live
set here and then my track and I'm just going to load and the next page.
Q Now the one thing I don't like about this is you don't get absolute command
so I can't say go to song one song two song three using MIDI but I can
do next page in previous page.
So I'm really only going to just use the next page command to make this happen.
So I would just lay these out and whenever I need to change pages in my
song I would make sure I drop that Q and someone had leaked this audio
file up here and it's just a couple of Q's laid into my set. I'm going
to go to the middle to section and I'm going to make sure this is routed
to network session 1. So now I'm going to go ahead and press play.
Let's take a look at Ableton and as soon as we see this Q hit we're going to
see music stand. Switch to the next page so there we go.
Now we're gonna see our next Hugh hit. Here again in a second. And after
that hits we're going to see it changed to the next page.
So again the great thing about this is what you want to do is go through
your individual songs pull up your chart on music stand and try to figure
out exactly where those cues should be placed. So again this is a fantastic
way to control music stand. But the one thing I don't like about this as
simple as this says it doesn't require any extra gear any extra pieces
of gear to make it happen. It's over wireless so it's not incredibly stable.
It's going to work perfect until it doesn't work at all. So what I like
doing is you doing this hardwired and the way I'm doing this is using a
play audio 12 and a mini four plus from eye connectivity.
Now both of these interfaces are connected using a ethernet cable.
And I've created a RTP network session between them to learn how to do that
check out the previous video where I talked about creating a RTP MIDI session
directly between devices. Now the thing I want to point out about this
is yes right now they're sitting two feet away from each other but there's
even at cable could be as long as you want it to be it could also go over
a switch so that you could have your play audio twelve on stage with able
to live. And have your many four plus in a booth and have the iPod attached
to it.
But the way I like to thing about this is I would have an iPod for every
position where I need it to be there and then a mini four plus with it.
So that one it's wired and then it's just an even a cable from my play
audio 12 into that box. So again I can have three maybe four pluses all
connected and the way they're connected to the iPod is through I connectivity
special cable. So I've got the USP side of this plugged into input one
on the midi for plus my lightning connector plugged into the iPod and again
the thing I love about this is the fact that this powers my device and
it's a hard wired connection and it's super super simple to make happen.
So now in ableton I'm going to change my routing for network session to
play audio twelve and what's happening is I'm going to send my mini out
of the play audio 12. It's going to go through ethernet into my mini four
plus which is then connected to my iPod which again is charging it and
gives it a hard wired connection. All right. So with my play audio twelve
connected and again to walk through our signal path play out it's also
connected to able to live. We've got an ethernet cable going into our mini
four plus which could be where we want to on stage and then we're connected
from our many four plus into the iPod.
So now I'm going to press play just jump a little bit for my cue and as
soon as my cue hits you see it changes the page again wired connection
and then it hits again and it's going to change the page again. So this
is my preferred way to do this because it gives me many redundancy.
This computer goes down I can have it on my other computer and it gives me a
wired connection to my ipod and my iPad stays charged.
So if you want to learn more about using able to live to control an iPod
to control a lighting console maybe to control proper center then had different
screens stage dot com slash control you'll see all the courses I've put
together that talk about controlling any type of device you can think out
can give you the foundational fundamental knowledge that you need to know
to make that happen. So we'd love to see there again from center stage
dot com slash control. Thanks so much for watching this story. We'll see
you next week. By