MIDI commands vs recipient devices: Channel number, my friend.Comfortably Numb) and I find it very useful for my one-man band show (early stages) Looper: I am only recently getting around to using a looper (Voicelive 3’s looper), mostly when I need to do a guitar solo (e.g.I like the idea of improvising now and then on a song, depending how I feel and how the audience responds.

Hi Tom! Please accept my sincere apologies for not responding earlier but I don’t come this way that often. Ideally I would like to use the BB with a bass guitar backing track running on the iPad (so I can ditch the laptop) that keeps in sync with the BB.Ī few questions: do you use backing tracks in your config at all? In your config how do you distinguish the midi commands that are destined for the V元 from those destined for the GR-55? And do you use a looper at all? But I cannot decide whether it is better to use the BB or to use backing tracks (also in MainStage). Hi Luis - I have used a similar setup - I have an iPad connected to the V元 and instead of the GR-55 I used a Fishman Tripleplay midi pickup with MainStage running various midi instruments on a laptop.I also have the BB and have tested connecting it via midi in a similar setup. Feel free to ask me questions and or make corrections if need be. I use Onsong primarily but I’m sure Set List Maker could also do the same (I have both but Onsong seems more user friendly to me)Īny MIDI instructions could be used, limited and/or in accordance with each device’s specific MIDI mapping. The BeatBuddy was instrumental in this case, due to its MIDI THRU (and/or MIDI MERGE) capabilities! I incorporated a Midi Solutions Quadra Thru box due to the fact that neither the V元 nor the GR-55 have MIDI THRU capabilities. I use wireless (bluetooth) MIDI via the Yamaha MD-BT01 interface (there are others, this is the only one I could get through Amazon.ca) because this way I can charge the iPad with its cable/adapter during performances while sending MIDI wirelessly. I have attached (or will attach, hoping it works…) two PDF files containing what I described. I thought it might be useful to some of you to share the particular MIDI configuration I ended up with and some additional information regarding MIDI Program Change commands in relation to the three devices I currently use, namely: BeatBuddy, Voicelive 3 and Roland GR-55 guitar synthesizer.

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