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11. Send MIDI Event
12. Send Light Scene
13. Send Hotkey Command
Suppose, for example, that you don’t have a fog
machine, you don’t need to display full screen lyrics, and
the two volume buttons are not used because you did a
good job in setting up the playback volumes of each
song in the playlist ahead of time.
That means that you have four buttons that you don’t
really use. You could re-map these buttons to perform
an alternate function, such as controlling another
program by sending a hotkey, or changing your vocal
reverb sound by sending a MIDI event to your e"ects
unit.
One example of an alternate use of the buttons is to
control a PowerPoint presentation that displays chord
diagrams by sending hotkeys to change slides.
Another possibility is to re-map all of the switches to
light scenes and just use the system to switch lights.
This is a great alternate use for the system on the days
when you have a full band and don’t need backing
accompaniment. In e"ect, you would be using the
system as a lighting controller with manually selected
scene changes.
The same concept as in the last example can also be
applied to hotkeys and MIDI events as well. All of the
buttons could be mapped to send hotkeys or MIDI events
and you’ve got yourself a foot controller that will control
external software programs or MIDI devices on the days
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