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  • SongBook+ User Guide
    • What is SongBook+
    • Getting Started
    • Settings
    • Inserting Files into SongBook+
      • SongBook+ on iPad and iPhone
      • SongBook+ on the Mac
    • Insert Unused Files into the Song List
    • Using the Song List
    • Editing Song Details
    • Display and Scroll PDF Documents
    • Select Next Song Without Leaving the Current Song
    • Using Colored Tags
    • Using the Metronome
    • Use Night Colors
    • Record Automatic Page Turning
    • Record Finger Pointer in "Karaoke Style"
    • Annotation Function
      • Insert Annotations
      • Deleting Annotations
      • Change Annotations
      • Copy Annotations
      • Frequently Save Used Annotations
      • Reusing Saved Annotations
      • Functional Button Annotations
      • Function Annotations for MIDI Controllers
    • Playlists
      • Select Existing Playlist
      • Insert New Playlist
      • Rename or Delete Playlists
      • Edit Playlist Content
      • Live Playlists
      • Sharing Playlists (Exporting)
    • Share (Export) Songs or Files
    • Importing Lyrics and Chords
      • From MP3 Files
      • From MIDI Files
      • From LRC Files
      • From ChordPro Files
    • Transposing Chords
    • Scanning Song Lyrics on Paper with Built-in Camera
    • Using MIDI Features
      • Connect iPad with MIDI
      • Playing MIDI Files
      • Open Song Remotely via MIDI
      • Responding to Other MIDI Commands
      • MIDI Commands When Opening Songs
      • MIDI Commands When Starting Songs
      • MIDI Commands When Stopping Songs
      • MIDI Commands When Closing Songs
      • MIDI Commands When Playing Songs
      • Send MIDI Commands at the Push of a Button
      • MIDI Controller with Slider
      • MIDI Macros
      • Simple Keyboard Control
      • Controlling Other Keyboards
    • Remotely Controlling SongBook+ (Foot Pedals, Gestures, Face, MIDI)
      • Foot pedals that simulate an external keyboard
      • MIDI Foot Pedals
      • Control with Gestures
      • Control with Face
    • Connecting Multiple iPads with SongBook+
    • Separate Books
    • Backing Up and Restoring Your Data
      • Backing up data
      • Restore Data
    • Completely Close SongBook+ or Other Apps
    • Separate Audio Outputs with External Hardware
    • Multi-tenancy with Subdirectories
    • Playing "Jingles"
    • Position Marker and Loop Function
    • Ableton Link Support
    • Full Version and In-App Purchases
    • Supported File Formats
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  1. SongBook+ User Guide
  2. Using MIDI Features

MIDI Macros

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Last updated 1 month ago

MIDI macros are a very powerful MIDI feature of SongBook+.

They allow you to define a sequence of MIDI commands, which can then be used in many different places in SongBook+:

  • As an action in foot pedal settings

  • As an action in control by gestures

  • As an action in function buttons

  • As an action in a MIDI macro (nesting macros)

  • As an action in songs when opening/starting/stopping/closing actions

  • As a global action when opening/starting/stopping/closing songs

  • Macros marked as favorites appear on the MIDI button in the toolbar

This way, you can define frequently used MIDI sequences, for example to turn certain effects on or off once, and then use them in many songs instead of entering the same sequence everywhere. This also has the advantage that you can later adjust this sequence centrally at one place.

Tip:

With a MIDI macro as an action in the settings of the MIDI foot pedal, it is even possible for SongBook+ to respond to a configurable MIDI command and then send out other MIDI commands.

For example, it could react to a MIDI command from the keyboard and then trigger something in another MIDI-enabled device.

Tip:

If you export a song that contains MIDI macros (in actions when opening or in function buttons) as a .sbk file, the MIDI macros used in it will also be exported to this .sbk file, so that the macros are also available after importing this .sbk file on the other device.

In this way, you can also deliberately transfer MIDI macros from one device to another by creating a song, then inserting the macros, for example, in "actions on start" or in a function button, and exporting this song afterwards.

If there are already macros with the same name but different content on the device where the .sbk file is imported, you will be asked whether the existing macros should be replaced or not.