And an even easier answer, frankly, would be to create a Show in Beat Link Trigger, import the track(s) that you want to have events happen at the memory points, and then just find those memory points in the track waveform, and add a Beat Link Trigger cue which sends the MIDI event you want at the same point in the track.
Hello, @eric. I don’t know if there is currently a practical way to do that. I’ll have to look at the source to see what the UI does, and whether that’s something that would be concise and reliable to put in your Came Online Expression. What’s the use case where you need this to happen automatically? You could try poking around in the source code yourself if you’re game, and if you see an easy way to do it, a pull request to the source or the user guide would be welcome. Otherwise I’ll try to remember to look when I have some time, but the next few weeks are going to be busy, as we are in the process of buying a new home, then moving, then listing our current one.
I took a quick look, and there is no clean way for you to do this as things stand. It would not require too much new code in the
overlay namespace to enable it though. I can take a crack at that. It sounds like you are doing lots of interesting things with BLT now, could you share a link to one of your streams or a description of what you’ve accomplished? Also, would you mind joining us over on the Deep Symmetry Zulip instance? That is where the community discussions have moved, it is a much better platform.
right now I'm actually just trying to use the OBS overlay to create a private page I can go to to see what the DJ is playing
not actually trying to use it as an OBS overlay
oh, and regarding controlling Hue bulbs that I talked about months ago, I found this really great project that acts as a DMX to Hue Entertainment bridge: https://github.com/daniel1111/HueLibEnt
I'll try my luck here: I am running Beat Link Trigger and I am trying to control master tempo in Ableton with Carabiner and passive sync. Everything looks great in the app - I can even see my CDJs getting picked up and everything. However, Ableton doesn't do anything when I activate Link. Does Ableton have to run on the same computer as Beat Link Trigger/Carabiner?
(but hello!)
Ableton definitely does not have to run on the same computer, Ableton Link works across the network. You should be able to do what you are trying.
There may be firewalls or other network issues getting in the way. Can you share a screen shot of how you have the Carabiner Connection window configured when you are trying this?
(But please try again to move to Zulip so that the rest of the community can help, and benefit from the discussion.)
And here is the raw Zulip link copied from the user guide: https://deep-symmetry.zulipchat.com/join/lp5i6yolkay7erzjzodx365q/
Link is a network technology, Ableton does not need to be on the same machine as BLT, it just needs to be on the same local network. https://www.ableton.com/en/link/
Hi, I want to activate the Start / Stop function in Carabiner connection in passive or full sync mode.
I read in the manual of Beat Link trigger this:
"If you are using Passive or Full Sync Mode, and would still like a trigger to control the Ableton Link transport (playing / stopped) state, you can do it by calling functions in your trigger expressions. carabiner / start-transport) to start it playing, and (beat-link-trigger.carabiner / stop-transport) to stop it.
You do need to make sure Carabiner is connected before calling either of these functions, though. This will do the trick:
(when (beat-link-trigger.carabiner / active?)
;; Your code here
)
If you want to only start or stop the transport when the Sync checkbox in the Ableton Link section is checked, substitute sync-enabled? for active? in the when clause above. "
It doesn't work ... He tells me the syntax is wrong.
What exactly should I write down in Came Online expression?
What is the right structure?
Is this good in Came Online expression?
Regards,
Pascal.
Hello, Pascal! Sorry about the delay in responding; Gitter is not used any more. You can find the Beat Link Trigger Zulip link above, could you ask your questions there? At a quick glance, though, it looks like you have spaces inside your function names, and that can’t work. (It would also help if you format code snippets as code when you post them on Zulip so they get formatted correctly). But what I am trying to say is that
(beat-link-trigger.carabiner / start-transport) is completely different from (beat-link-trigger/start-transport).
The Beat Link Trigger community has moved to: https://deep-symmetry.zulipchat.com/join/lp5i6yolkay7erzjzodx365q/
As noted above, the Beat Link Trigger community has moved to: https://deep-symmetry.zulipchat.com/join/lp5i6yolkay7erzjzodx365q/ so that is where you will most people who can answer questions. But yes, as is explained in the compatibility section on the project home page, pre-nexus players do not send the information needed to enable most of the features of Beat Link Trigger, so it can offer very little information or synchronization.
"Whoops. The confirmation link has expired or been deactivated."
"Please contact your organisation administrator for a new link."
However, that was when i used the "sign in with GitHub" option. If i just register with my email address, it works. so @djkad perhaps that is the answer for you too.
I can’t quite yet activate it, it is still in beta: https://deep-symmetry.zulipchat.com/help/web-public-streams
Also strange, I don’t see anything about the invitation being expired. I think I will just leave it alone until I can turn on public streams, and then post a link to one of those instead of an invitation as soon as it comes out of beta.
The big advantage will be the ability to share links to discussions answering specific questions in the help, like I used to.
Hi guys...I'm playing around with the software...would it be possible to do the following: Beatlink trigger detects a song an wether it is on deck 1 or 2....and depending on deck 1 or 2 sends the SAME note message, but on different MIDI channels. For example Micheal Jackson - Thriller, start of the verse would trigger VERSE trigger, play midi note C1 on channel 1 when loaded on deck 1 BUT play midi note c1 on channel 2 when loaded on deck 2
The Beat Link Trigger community has moved to: https://deep-symmetry.zulipchat.com/join/lp5i6yolkay7erzjzodx365q/
So please direct any follow-up questions there. That said, I do believe that you will be able to achieve that by writing a little Clojure code in your verse trigger. Check the documentation to be sure, but I think the player number is one of the values that is available to that code, so you could use that to construct the proper MIDI message (there are plenty of integration examples in the user guide showing how to send MIDI messages from code).
Hmm, @Itchy-Fingaz, can you try this link instead? Please let me know if it works and I will update the links in the documentation and applications. https://deep-symmetry.zulipchat.com/
Hello @alstergee! The BLT community has moved to https://deep-symmetry.zulipchat.com/register/ so you are more likely to find an answer there. For my part, I don’t have any CDJ 3000s to test with, so I have no idea, but I don’t have any reason to believe that firmware changes would cause issues. It will take someone trying it to know for sure, and hopefully if there are problems they will be able to capture network traffic and help fix them.
I’ve finally been able to enable web-public streams on Zulip, so now people can see the conversation there before signing up for an account to chat themselves. The URL for the Beat Link Trigger stream is https://deep-symmetry.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/275322-beat-link-trigger