MIDI Macros

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

This allows 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 gesture control

• As an action in functional buttons

• As an action within a MIDI macro (nested macros)

• As an action in the songs during actions for opening/starting/stopping/closing

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

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

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

You can create or modify MIDI macros here in the settings:

• MIDI -> MIDI-Makros

Tip:

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

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

Tip:

If you export a song that contains MIDI macros (in actions when opening or in functional buttons) as a .sbk file, the MIDI macros used within it are also exported into this .sbk file, so that the macros are also present on the other device after importing this .sbk file.

In this way, you can also consciously transfer MIDI macros from one device to another by creating a song, then inserting the macros in, for example, "actions when starting" or in a functional button, and then exporting this song.

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