KeyStage 1.x Tutorial: Instruments Database, Setlists, and Virtual MIDI Ports — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello and welcome to another video of
2. 0:01key stage now the key stage recently got
3. 0:04an update to version 1.2 and in this
4. 0:07video I'm gonna demonstrate some of the
5. 0:08features of this new version of key
6. 0:11stage both the lite version and the full
7. 0:13version so I'm going to start with the
8. 0:15light version now the light version has
9. 0:17now two modes you can see the bottoms
10. 0:20here down here so mode one is the
11. 0:22standard mode of the light version but
12. 0:25if I switch to mode 2
13. 0:27now I don't have the limitations of the
14. 0:32mode one I just can you know create any
15. 0:34number of tracks access all the features
16. 0:36or the full version there are only two
17. 0:39limitations one is that I cannot access
18. 0:41to the file system so I cannot save
19. 0:43songs in this mode 2 and also I cannot
20. 0:47access to the Dropbox and now you can
21. 0:49see that there is a remaining time here
22. 0:51so when I switch to mode 2 I get a two
23. 0:54hour long session and during this
24. 0:57session I can just you know test all the
25. 0:59features of the full version and I can
26. 1:03actually go back to mode 1 at anytime I
27. 1:05want and when I activate more 2 again
28. 1:08I'll start another 2 hour session and at
29. 1:11the end of these two hours key stage
30. 1:13prompts me to switch back to mode 1 so
31. 1:16and by the way so I won't be able to
32. 1:18save songs but all the global properties
33. 1:20that I make that I change on mode to are
34. 1:23saved in key stage light so you don't
35. 1:25have to create instruments for it
36. 1:27process from scratch every time you
37. 1:28switch the mode to now the features I'm
38. 1:31gonna talk about from now on are both
39. 1:33available in both light version and the
40. 1:35full version now this new feature is
41. 1:38about instrument presets Cubase pad
42. 1:40scripts basically so I created a
43. 1:42database for key stage and key stage
44. 1:46direct the accesses to this database a
45. 1:48database of instrument presets so I have
46. 1:52my North keyboard here
47. 1:53I haven't connected to iPad yet this is
48. 1:56the chimera connection kit now if I
49. 1:58connect my North keyboard to this iPad
50. 2:02says nicob MIDI connections change and
51. 2:04now quise suggests me a pad scripts
52. 2:07actually an instrument preset for for
53. 2:10North electro 5 so it accesses this
54. 2:12database
55. 2:13this media output of North with the pet
56. 2:18script and recommends me with one old
57. 2:20one that matches with that so I download
58. 2:23this instrument preset and I assign and
59. 2:27when I say yes it's automatically
60. 2:29assigned to North Elektra so if I create
61. 2:32a track so choose my input and choose my
62. 2:36outputs now I have all the parameters
63. 2:43and all the instruments of Nord electro
64. 2:49so I don't need to search for Cubase pad
65. 2:52scripts to actually find it all I don't
66. 2:53need to create them manually so this is
67. 2:56a database of Cubase part scripts that
68. 2:59will keep evolving so let me show you
69. 3:03another example this is not only
70. 3:05restricted to hardware instruments so
71. 3:08here's st. one by audio kit so when I
72. 3:17open this now kisses kiss they suggest
73. 3:20me so this is one of the pad scripts
74. 3:21that I recently added to the database or
75. 3:24the kid sent one so i download it and
76. 3:27again i assign it to the outputs of
77. 3:32audio get sent one so I choose my inputs
78. 3:35so this is now channel two because all
79. 3:38obvious reasons and I choose audio kids
80. 3:41central one now I have all the patches
81. 3:46scripts here Sookie said automatically
82. 3:56recognizes these MIDI connections and
83. 3:58gives you suggestions but you can
84. 4:00directly access these patch scripts the
85. 4:03Stata base from here so here are all the
86. 4:09categories and all the patch scripts you
87. 4:11can just do searching here and even if
88. 4:16you don't get a suggestion from key
89. 4:18stage you can actually try to look it up
90. 4:20here and find the path script you want
91. 4:22and simply download it
92. 4:26so I created new instruments so this
93. 4:31database
94. 4:32I'll try to update it as as frequent as
95. 4:36possible but you know if I get paid
96. 4:40scripts from the community and if people
97. 4:42create pad scripts for different
98. 4:44hardware or software instruments and
99. 4:46sent them to me this database will
100. 4:48evolve much faster and will be
101. 4:50beneficial for for the whole community
102. 4:52okay now I'm gonna go to another new
103. 4:56feature but this time I need to access
104. 5:00the actual the full version of key stage
105. 5:03now I'm gonna talk about the setlist
106. 5:06feature so now you can see there is this
107. 5:08new setlist folder here and I can tap
108. 5:13create new set list so I can start
109. 5:18creating set this by actually taking
110. 5:21songs from here so I can double tap to
111. 5:25actually transfer songs into this
112. 5:28setlist
113. 5:28of the actual I can remove them here so
114. 5:33let's actually add some cover songs here
115. 5:37and I can actually tap and hold and
116. 5:43change the order of these songs and they
117. 5:46set this I tap here to name my setlist
118. 5:49so my first setlist and when I'm done I
119. 5:57just tap here and when I double tap the
120. 6:00setlist now I have a new bar here this
121. 6:05is the set this bar which contains all
122. 6:07the songs in the right order I can
123. 6:11access any of these songs by double
124. 6:13tapping and I totally loads the song
125. 6:17over there but that's not the only way
126. 6:19that you access songs on the setlist now
127. 6:22in the live performance these arrows
128. 6:26that switch sections actually switch
129. 6:28songs when when I'm on one end of either
130. 6:32on the first section or on the last
131. 6:34section when I'm on the first section
132. 6:35now the previous arrow now switches to
133. 6:38the previous song
134. 6:40and similarly when I go to the end of
135. 6:44the song
136. 6:46is quite a long song here
137. 6:52now I the next song just appears on when
138. 6:54I tap here it just moves to the next
139. 6:56song so this allows you to just create
140. 7:00your set lists for one gig and then
141. 7:02never leave the live control surface and
142. 7:05just go through the songs without really
143. 7:09you know leaving the live con live
144. 7:11control console and one other thing that
145. 7:14I want to mention here is this external
146. 7:19MIDI control now has a new part
147. 7:22another feature for changing songs so
148. 7:25now I can assign any controller to
149. 7:28change songs not only sections but also
150. 7:30songs so this is set lists and one last
151. 7:34feature that I want to show you is the
152. 7:38virtual midi ports so now key stage
153. 7:41supports mutual MIDI ports you can
154. 7:43create virtual midi ports input ports or
155. 7:45output ports and if actually you go to
156. 7:47MIDI connections tab there is this new
157. 7:50part here which you MIDI ports and if I
158. 7:52tap here you realize that key stage
159. 7:55there is a defaults and virtual midi
160. 7:57port is automatically created when you
161. 7:59download key stage or update key stage 2
162. 8:021 point 2 so I have 1 which will be the
163. 8:06output and 1 which will be the inputs so
164. 8:09why do I need virtual ports so let me
165. 8:13demonstrate so there are certain apps
166. 8:16here is one example universal piper and
167. 8:20there are actually a couple of other
168. 8:21apps like that which do not create their
169. 8:24own ports or MIDI ports this is actually
170. 8:27working in the background it's all in
171. 8:29background mode but when I open key
172. 8:31stage and create a track I won't have a
173. 8:35universal type or a MIDI connection here
174. 8:37because it doesn't create one so malikul
175. 8:41a virtual port allows you to actually
176. 8:43communicate such instruments so what I
177. 8:48do is I'm gonna create an output port
178. 8:52the name is Piper and as soon as I do
179. 8:57that I go to hardware and now you can
180. 9:02see the piper virtual here and also key
181. 9:04stage ritual these are the two
182. 9:05which reports that key stage created so
183. 9:08I'm going to disable the rest and only
184. 9:10allow Piper Piper virtual and here now
185. 9:16in the output connections I have Piper
186. 9:18ritual I also need to so now it's
187. 9:25connected even if Universal Piper
188. 9:28doesn't have a MIDI connection on its
189. 9:30own so another use which is actually
190. 9:32very similar is when you want to use
191. 9:36audio units in either audio bus or a um
192. 9:40so when you actually load an audio units
193. 9:44in a um so that's a lot sinister one
194. 9:48here you have the same problem audio
195. 9:53units do not create visual port you do
196. 9:55not create their dedicated MIDI ports so
197. 9:58you cannot see st. master one here so
198. 10:02you actually need a virtual port so
199. 10:04let's actually create another one here
200. 10:07now for synth master one so if I go to a
201. 10:20now I can see all the virtual ports here
202. 10:24well a um has its own which support I
203. 10:26can use that but if I want to use more
204. 10:28than one audio unit only I will need
205. 10:30more than one virtual port the key stage
206. 10:33will allow you to create those here's
207. 10:35synth master one I can flit to my
208. 10:38channels but it doesn't matter because
209. 10:40this audio it only listens to syntax the
210. 10:42one here I can just enable all the ports
211. 10:46so now in the output section
212. 10:49I choose sync master one and North
213. 10:52electro here okay what is the problem
214. 10:58huh
215. 11:00here is a typical issue with whenever I
216. 11:04create a new virtual port or whenever a
217. 11:06new MIDI connection is created certain
218. 11:10instruments like this or on almost all
219. 11:13synthesized instruments automatically
220. 11:14starts listening to that
221. 11:16so now Fievel also listens to since
222. 11:17around I don't want that I disabled this
223. 11:19so therefore now this this communicates
224. 11:24with Piper so you won't need a third
225. 11:27party app like MIDI flow to create
226. 11:30virtual ports and more key stage can
227. 11:32basically do that for you