What's the MOST midi automation possible for Almost hands free performance?

[tweedle]

I am considering adding a computer for a band that use a sequencer. I would be doing other stuff as well and I thought hey, I could run midi tracks and do most of the performance at home and still be able to mess around a bit with the band when it's all running live.

So: I'd write midi tracks for Resolume into the band sequencer, use a seperate midi out and be able to know what it will look like live while still being able to as i said, mess with it a bit.

NOW, as an intelekual exercise:
Just HOW automated can Resolume get WITHOUT just playing a song-long mixed/recorded video.

I don't see that there's any way to change which clip goes into one of the three windows... And how about loading effects automatically via midi..

I am hoping I get laughed at and get the answer I'd love to hear..
That being there IS a way to automate almost everything...clips into the 3 windows etc. AND still NOT have to commit anything to a sorta long rendered video.

-gulp- cringe

what say yee gurus?

big tanks!

[Edited on 6-9-2005 by tweedle]

[Edited on 6-9-2005 by tweedle]

[levon]

you can use midi to do just about everything that you can do with mouse and keyboard, except stuff like changing the audio analisis stuff. what you have to do is map all of the possible midi controller, buttons etc... then in a midi sequencer you will have to map out each song as midi data corasponding to what is mapped in resolume. its actualy quite easy, but you will require alot of planing for it to work right... particualy if you havent used resolume very much.

[gpvillamil]

Yep, you can assign MIDI notes to stuff like selecting the active layer slot.

Note that Resolume records the active channel number as well, so if your bandmates aren't using the channels you can multiply the number of available notes/controllers by 16.

This means that you could potentially dedicate 127 notes on a channel purely to activating effects.