Worship leaders you're probably familiar with planning center. One of my
favorite features of planning centers Planning Center live which allows
you to track exactly how long different elements of your service are.
Hey this is dog Doggett today I want to show you how to use Ableton Live to
control planning center live so that you don't have to have someone sit
behind a computer and press spacebar. So let's get started. OK. Let's talk
about how to make this happen so you could technically do this on the same
computer but most likely I'm assuming you probably are doing this on separate
machines so to show you how to do that and this machine I've got Ableton
Live and on this machine I've got Planning Center live opened up and I'm
using a really cool app called bone MIDI translator pro to convert a mini
note from Ableton Live to spacebar to basically press spacebar and change
elements and Planning Center live.
Now to make this easy for you I have a free template that you can download
both with a mini Q and able to live in the bone MIDI translator preset
you're gonna have to purchase boom in order to make that happen but you
can download the preset for Ableton and for both many turns later pro and
open it up and get going right away. Okay before I show you how I did that
and bone mini translator pro first I want to talk about connecting the
machine so I'm doing this with two different machines. I can make this
a wired connection or wireless connection for the sake of this video.
I'm doing this wirelessly now typically I don't suggest using or controlling
things wirelessly in a live performance but because this is a pretty kind
of low stress thing if this goes down it's probably not the end of the world.
I think wireless would likely be fine. But even what I'm showing you now
could be applied to a wired network and I've linked to the video below
in the description that shows you how to do this wirelessly as well.
So the way I'm going to do this is using the built in RTP mini network that's
included in every Mac for free. So I'm going to hit spotlight here and
search for audio mini setup makes you go up to window and do show MIDI
studio if you're on Madhavi you will not see the network icon show up here
that you're used to seeing so you can hit the globe icon to show network mini.
What I want to do is make sure I have at least one session created on my
computer make sure that who may connect to me and said to anyone and make
sure I have a bunch your name in this area so my directory I see from Studio
Stage 2 which is this machine. So what I'm going to do is click on that
machine and hit connect. Now again both these are the same wireless network
which is how I saw them for some reason you don't see your machine one
make sure who may connect to me is that anyone to make sure there's a bond
your name listed three. It's possible you might have a firewall setup between
those in that case.
Talk to someone your local I.T. professional at the gig at the venue at
your church to help you figure that out. You could also do an ad hoc network
if you know what that means and know how to set that up. So in this case
I've got my session created here. I'm connected to the same session on
this computer. Once I connect here it's showing up automatically someone
we're going to open that let's go into Ableton and talk about the couple
settings we need there in ableton. So I'm using this template again that
I created that you can get for free. I'll share the link with how to get
that I hear in a moment.
You can get that for free. Basically all it is is a mini clip that has
a mini note in it. It's set to use network session one you could change
it to have your connected and it's set to channel 16. The other thing I
did here because I'm using the network connection I hit command comma which
is going to take me into preferences I'm going to click link midi and on
the output side of this I want to go to network session one I want to make
sure that track is enabled. That's going to allow me to send MIDI from
Ableton lives tracks to the network RTP MIDI network session down to this machine.
So with this template open with that connection made with both of these
computers connected let's go over to our planning center life computer.
So on this machine I've got plenty centralized open make sure that you
click take control to take control of the service so that you can control
it and essentially the way the control of planning centralized works is
you hit spacebar and you go to the next element in your set. So super easy
super straightforward. So let's go back to our previous element to the start.
So we even started our servers yet. Now I've got both many trains that
are pro again installed on this computer.
I've loaded the free template again stick around to hear the U.R.L.
to download this for free. So all I was doing is just taking this Menino enabled
to live that it receives and it's converting that Menino you can see here
to spacebar. So that essentially all is doing is just pressing spacebar
when I'm over and playing center. And in bomb MIDI translator pro what
I did is I went to my project default many ports and I just selected as
my input network session one you can see that port is open and it's ready
to go. So let's try this out and see what happens.
So I'm gonna go into safari with plenty Center live open. Then when I go
back over to Ableton I'm just going to trigger my medical kit. So it's
what happens is it's going to send a mini note to network session one to
bone meditations that are pro just going to convert it to spacebar and
then I'm virtually pressing spacebar. So you could see it switched.
Let's hit spacebar again and start it. You see it goes to the next one spacebar again.
He goes to the next one. So how do we practically use this. So what I'm
gonna do is I'm just going to open a new live set here and we're going
to pretend that this is a set full of a couple of different songs.
Something to add just a couple different locators just like I would if
I was running tracks or an actual service. I've got four songs set up and
then using my browser I'm going to go and navigate to where I have that
template stored on my computer. Okay. So I'm going to click the arrow to
the left of the live project. The error to the left of the live set.
And then finally the arrow to the left of the live track. What that gives me
is just that go clip. So what I'm going to do is just drop this in and
we'll have it drop in at the beginning of my song the beginning of my next song.
Next song. And then finally my fourth song here. Okay. Clean the setup.
I'm going to go through and delete my extra midi and audio tracks.
And the final thing I need to do to make sure my routing is correct here is
I'm going to change this in network session 1. Again this is program to
use Channel 16. So with this plugged in I'm pretty much ready to go.
So now Hansberry I can press spacebar to start Ableton play by and you'll
see as I hit that clip at specific times in my set it's gonna press spacebar
and essentially toggle to the next song a couple of things about this one.
I can't assign a specific cue here to a specific song and planning center live.
So if you've heard me talk about this before there's two types of programming
absolute and relative. This is an example of relative programming.
We're not saying this Q goes to glorious day or this Q goes to song 3 we just
say this Q goes to spacebar which triggers our next song. It's not the
greatest thing in the world but that's how planning center live works and
it works just fine for what we are doing. So couple of things to be aware of.
There's a little bit of delay when you press spacebar until it goes through
the next song.
So what you might want to do is move your queue over here a little early
so that you can compensate for that especially if you're trying to time
it perfectly. But this is a great way to start a song have it go the entire
length of your song and start your next element. So that year countdowns
and your cues line up and you start at the exact right time. If you're
a worship leader tech director music director at a church I want to make
it easier to help you make this happen.
So head to from Studio Stage scum slash P. C. live to download one my free
Ableton template. With that that small little Q and then my free bone MIDI
translator pro template you can load on your other computer to make this
happen super easily. So again head to studios says Dot com slash P.C.
live completely free and I'll send you my Ableton template as well as my bone
medi translated pro template. You're going to have to purchase bones to
make this happen. You can at least get the template for free so that you
in no time can be tracking your service elements and service time really quickly.
Automatically with April. Thanks so much for watching this See you guys
next week. Take care. Bye bye.