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MIDI timed text
Is there anything on iOS that can start displaying text at time zero, and then display other text at a certain time interval from zero, then display even other text at a certain time interval from zero (not the previous other texts, time, but from zero), then display even otherer text at a certain time interval from zero, and so on
Preferably nice big text
And preferably it starts when a sequencer also starts
And also preferably the time interval from zero can be given in beats and bars
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You could do something like that in audulus with a canvas node. It might be easiest to use a midi sequencer that sends midi events to audulus and have the midi events trigger the canvas that displays the text.
I was just about to suggest Audulus too.
This would be a very handy iOS app. It was what I wanted to do as my first AUv3 project. I gave up.
I envisioned something like Fruity Notepad, where you could enter text, markdown, or html into pages, and then switch the pages through midi events. I hadn't considered a built-in "sequencer" but that would be a nice feature.
I think there must be a sheet music app out there that could do this, but it seems like most of them are geared toward imported PDFs, which is overkill and more work than needed for just text.
Sorry - this post is no help toward answering the question.
@u0421793 - Surface Builder along with something to send it midi notes at the proper time could be used for this.
Loopy Pro could also do it and you could use "dummy" empty clips to trigger the changes along its timeline.
Neither is as convenient as a simple app just for this purpose, but both could work.
Possibly relevant: https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/31245/how-to-remotely-control-any-ios-app
Just in case you run into it in the other current thread on this topic, there's an app called Session Notes AU. It lets you take and display notes in an AU, but has no ability to trigger by Midi, and doesn't even save it's state in a host session, so you can't even have a selected note display on session load.
It's only $1.99 though. It might be of some use for other purposes.
May I ask why?
Streambyter can have any text for the 8 sliders Q1 to Q8. Not fancy but might do the job.
Could be that there are more graphical elements available (like that "RUN" button with text) but I'm too lazy now to read the docs.
I got too frustrated by the lack of Apple documentation surrounding making AUv3's. There are many more community contributed examples now, so I could probably take another stab at it, but tbh I've lost interest.
A quick attempt using Streambyter...
Code:
IF LOAD
SET Q0 ElectricPiano +BUTTON
SET Q1 RhodesSuitcase +BUTTON
SET Q2 _ +BUTTON
SET Q3 _ +BUTTON
SET Q4 _ +BUTTON
SET Q5 _ +BUTTON
SET Q6 _ +BUTTON
SET Q7 _ +BUTTON
SET Q8 _ +BUTTON
END
Capturing any MIDI message or using the host transport timer "PO" and renaming the buttons on the fly would do it.
I have a working Audulus patch that I need to refine before posting a video demo that lets you enter strings and displays them in response to midi notes.
you can use @SecretBaseDesign ’s visual synth if you first make a video containing the texts you want to use (made with LumaFusion for instance), then import that video in visual synth, choose cue points and trigger them by MIDI notes..
Audulus, eh? Thanks for the suggestions
I’ve been trying for ages to get Keynote to be useful in this respect, and the last weekend was yet another weekend which went by without me live-streaming some music because Keynote stopped my progress – yet another whole weekend trying to get the lyrics to display in time with the sequence
If I could give Keynote a bar:beat time to change slide instead of the useless ‘time from the last slide change’ paradigm, it’d be at least useful if I could start it at roughly the same time as the sequencing
I still haven’t decided what will actually do the sequencing, in fact haven’t progressed any of the live music organisation yet, I’m stuck at making Keynote display the lyrics as my first step, and have made no progress all year
One thing that Keynote does which other apps mostly don’t is display full 1080 on the HDMI dongle into the ATEM (well, into a quad multiview then into the ATEM) – most other iPad apps will display in a useless 4:3-ish aspect leaving bars down the sides, but if I display as white text on black in some other sequence-aware text-displaying app then I might be able to get away with luma-keying it onto something else
So this is no help? Turning Midi into keyboard and screen actions?
Not really, it doesn’t appear relevant, it’s all about Bluetooth or something
Check out TouchViz. It’ currently on sale down from $10.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/touchviz/id486139371
In combination with a midi controller or sequencer e.g. Atom 2 a lot is possible. But you have to create the content in advance, it will be loaded as pictures or videos into TouchViz and then controlled. Here is the Midi Reference:
https://hexler.net/touchviz/manual/midi-reference
@u0421793 I created a beta app that I never released 4y ago. it was only stand alone and displayed custom text set to a BPM, it was simple to use. I've thought of resurrecting it recently to include a 16 grid set to bpm that fills up, basically for live jams as que/ref for build up and drops, say every 8, 16 or 32 (or custom) bar. check it out an old vid here:
Let me know if it's of interest, I could share the code on git hub and you could build to you own device maybe as I've cancelled my Apple developer account.
That’d be ideal – especially without the white top bar, and with an ability to go full HD 16:9
Why can’t Keynote do exactly this? It’s exactly what I expect Keynote to be able to do
The example in the video above is a piece of cake with TouchViz. Just sayin'...
In that case – I shall invest in it
…just did
So far I can’t get it to accept a Keynote presentation at all
I can’t see any way of even typing text of any sort onto it to have it displayed
hmm, I can't actually find the code/project to share. sorry
That's okay, I don’t want it in code anyway, I’d never be able to decode it
I’m expecting this to be a thing which can be done from Keynote but it can’t and that’s not how I want things to be
Basically a teleprompter that can step forward every lyric line when that lyric line is happening in the verse chorus or middle eight, so it needs to be aware of the sequencer (and of course if I stop, it stops, if I carry on, it carries on, like a teleprompter)
Lyrics, or technical shit to remind me to do things like cut or wipe on the ATEM or change to wiggly sound on the synth or other such prompting
As I wrote in my first post:
“But you have to create the content in advance, it will be loaded as pictures or videos into TouchViz and then controlled.”
Should be pretty easy to generate your text with any suitable application and save it to several pics and/or videos.
Btw, as you probably already noticed, 1080p output is possible as video file or direct on an external screen. Plus Midi, OSC, Max4Live, PureData support. What more do you need to bang out a little text in sync with time?
@u0421793 Ah sorry...I misquoted, your reply was not directed at TouchViz.
exactly what pictures do you imagine Touchviz can take?
I confused TouchViz with GoVJ, one of my other visualizers. Therefore correction: TouchViz can only import videos while GoVJ imports videos as well as images and can also be controlled via midi.
Workaround for TouchViz: you can import already existing single images into a video editor like iMovie, Luma Fusion or Davinci Resolve, save them as mp4 with only one frame and then import them into TouchViz without any problems.
For all new images you want to create, you can use the text functions of the video editors and then proceed in exactly the same way, i.e. export only one frame as mp4 video.
For fucks sake, I was made redundant a couple of months ago, I can’t just afford to piss away a fiver like that – I don’t need what amounts to just a bloody video switcher in software, I’ve already got two ATEMs and a Roland V-02HDmkII, the iPad running Keynote goes into those via splitter and a 4x1 multiviewer
What I really need is Keynote to have better ways of going from screen to screen, it obviously has some ways of doing it outside of the settings in the document, because I can use my Apple Watch to step it forward whenever I want, so it must be possible for other apps to nudge it on
With a video that has the text needed -- you could import to Visual Synth, set some queue points, and then use MIDI notes to cue to the right spots. The app is free right now (it's been that way since release).
I've got an update planned, maybe by the end of the month if I drink enough coffee. A few new features, probably a demo video or two, and it'll likely stop being free.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smashcut-visual-synth/id1493237895