Unique Shortcuts per composition

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Gigasaurus
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Unique Shortcuts per composition

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I hit a problem and need help. I am setting up 2 resolume compositions (1 per set) for 2 sets of live performance. Each composition has about 23 videos (for 23 songs). 46 songs total in 2 sets that play out in a specific order as a show.

I am a musician in the band that is performing, and my goal is to have one key (like "Q", "W", "E") assigned per column in resolume. I don't want to use "alt-Q" or "shift-Q" because I have found from experience it is easy to screw that up in live performance and trigger the wrong video (easier to press a letter or number).

I just discovered that the keyboard shortcuts I assign per column seem to be GLOBAL, and I can't have unique shortcuts per composition. Is this a true limitation? or is there anyway to have unique shortcuts that I use per composition?

I have 46 songs, so I run out of letters on the keyboard. Am I chained to one set of keyboard shortcuts when I use resolume?

I am also assigning the shortcuts logically, so number shortcuts (1,2,3) correspond to album (like "Dark Side of the Moon") and the letters below the number (like Q,A,Z) to the three songs from that album. So my logic and ability to organize are impaired if I have to resort to using more than 10 digits and 26 letters.

Any help figuring this out would be appreciated.

Gigasaurus
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Re: Unique Shortcuts per composition

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ChatGPT says to use "pages"

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Re: Unique Shortcuts per composition

Post by Gigasaurus »

I worked on it and I think I answered my own question.

The solution was to start fresh by making a composition with all shortcuts (1QAZ,2WSX etc) and use that as a template for all my pages within the composition. I just have to get used to the fact that there will be blank columns in my pages (based on the sets contents).

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Re: Unique Shortcuts per composition

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Save the shortcut preset under a different name, then save your composition under a new name too.
https://resolume.com/support/en/midi-sh ... ut-presets
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Gigasaurus
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Re: Unique Shortcuts per composition

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Thank you. When I save a composition, I don't see a path to a file I can backup. Where do I find the composition file itself?

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Re: Unique Shortcuts per composition

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Do a save as in the composition menu, there you can give a new file name.
Composition files are stored in the Documents/Resolume Arena/Compositions folder
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