MIDI Macros

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.