As I’ve said before, we use iTunes for all our pre- and post-service music needs and have on occasion used it for cues within a service. While I am looking at alternatives, iTunes has been a great fit 90% of the time. However, one thing I’ve always wanted to do was control it from the Venue via snapshots. Very often at the end of the service, our producers would like a specific song to begin playing immediately for the walk-out to complement a certain mood or message from the service. The song then needs to flow seamlessly into a regular walk-in/out playlist. This is easily accomplished in iTunes by adding the song to a playlist, un-checking it, and then playing the song.
Midistroke click mac#īy simply highlighting the desired song, pressing the “return” key on a mac will begin playback of the selected song.
Our problem is that iTunes is out of reach from where the FOH engineer spends most of his time so pulling down the speaker, starting iTunes, and pushing iTunes up is tough to do in the time our producers want it to happen. Having a snapshot handle the crossfade between speaker and iTunes doesn’t work, either, because our producers don’t like the amount of “dead air” between bringing the speaker down and starting iTunes they want iTunes to start right away. When we have an audio assistant at FOH, the transition is easily accomplished because he can start playback while the FOH engineer handles the mix side. However, it is rare we have an assistant hese days so the burden is on the FOH engineer. So the best solution I could think of would be to use MIDI to start and stop playback.
#USING MIDISTROKE HOW TO#
I actually figured out how to do this while looking into an iTunes alternative.
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