KeyStage Introductory Tutorial — Transcript
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- 0:06hello and welcome to the first
- 0:07introductory tutorial video of key stage
- 0:10in this video I'm going to talk about
- 0:12the core structure of Key Stage as well
- 0:15as some Advanced features without going
- 0:17too much into the details there will be
- 0:19other tutorial videos for the advanced
- 0:22features
- 0:23now I strongly suggest you to watch this
- 0:25video from another device either from
- 0:27your phone or from your computer while
- 0:30you have Key Stage open in front of you
- 0:33now
- 0:34um the first thing I want to talk about
- 0:35is the user's manual so keystage has a
- 0:38user's manual now which can be accessed
- 0:40directly from the app itself it's still
- 0:43working progress though most of the
- 0:45essential parts are complete as you can
- 0:47see there are certain sections are still
- 0:49work in progress
- 0:51but I'll be working on this user's
- 0:54manual and every time I complete a new
- 0:56section I will upload it to the database
- 0:58and it will automatically update it in
- 1:01your key stage
- 1:04you can also share the user's manual to
- 1:07other devices so you can actually read
- 1:09it from your phone or your computer
- 1:13one other thing that I want to talk
- 1:15about is these info buttons so
- 1:17throughout Key Stage you will see these
- 1:20info buttons and when you tap on them
- 1:23the corresponding section in the user's
- 1:26menu will automatically open so here's
- 1:28another example if I type preferences
- 1:31there are different preferences options
- 1:33and if I tap the info button the
- 1:36corresponding section in the user's
- 1:37manual automatically opens okay let's
- 1:40start with our connections our Hardware
- 1:41connections in this tutorial I'm going
- 1:44to be using my Nord Electro 5 HP
- 1:46keyboards this is a midi keyboard but it
- 1:50also has a sound engine which I want to
- 1:52use in Key Stage
- 1:54now it's not connected to my iPads but
- 1:57when I play it
- 2:00I can hear the sound from my mixer now
- 2:03as a master controller app keystage is
- 2:06responsible for all the midi routings
- 2:09from midi keyboards into sound engines
- 2:12or plugins
- 2:13and right now I have a direct connection
- 2:15between the MIDI controller part of my
- 2:18keyboard to the sound engine part of my
- 2:21keyboard that's why when I play it
- 2:23I can hear the sound even if it's not
- 2:25connected to my iPad
- 2:27I need to cut this direct connection so
- 2:29that key stage will have full control
- 2:31over over this keyboard so you can do
- 2:34this by turning the local control off of
- 2:37your keyboard so different keyboards
- 2:40have different settings so you have to
- 2:42look at the manual of your keyboard to
- 2:43do that so right now the local control
- 2:45is off and it's good to go I can control
- 2:48I can connect my keyboards to my iPad
- 2:51using a midi hop
- 2:54so as soon as I connect my keyboard this
- 2:56message pops up now depending on your
- 2:59keyboard you may or may not see this
- 3:01message but what key stage does here is
- 3:05it accesses a database of instrument
- 3:07presets and finds a match for my Nord
- 3:10Electro 5 keyboards
- 3:12I'm not going to go talk about E7
- 3:14process right now
- 3:16I'll briefly talk about them in this
- 3:19tutorial video when when the time comes
- 3:21but I suggest you to download this
- 3:24instrument presets
- 3:26and in the next message it says whether
- 3:29I want to connect it to the inputs of my
- 3:32note Electro and also say yes
- 3:35so our keyboard is connected
- 3:37uh let me briefly talk about this main
- 3:40view here on top we have these menu
- 3:43buttons which accesses different parts
- 3:45of key stage
- 3:46here on the bottom we have some
- 3:48additional information and some
- 3:50additional controls
- 3:51but the main three regions of Key Stage
- 3:54are the tracks region which is on the
- 3:56left part here
- 3:58the path region which is the central
- 4:00region and the sections here
- 4:04we're going to be starting with tracks
- 4:07so here if I double tap anywhere on this
- 4:10region I create a track
- 4:12s in Key Stage are connection hubs they
- 4:15have inputs here and an outputs
- 4:19so if I click inputs here you'll see the
- 4:23list of inputs midi inputs that is
- 4:25connected to my iPads these are the MIDI
- 4:27inputs of my sound cards and down here
- 4:30is the midi input from my Nord Electro
- 4:325. and if I play the keyboard you can
- 4:34see the blinking light next to it so I
- 4:36select this as my inputs
- 4:39now if I click outputs
- 4:41I have these midi connections and now
- 4:44these are the mini connections again for
- 4:46my sound card and here is North Elektra
- 4:50and my midi connection is done now I can
- 4:52play not keyboard through key stage
- 4:56now I'm gonna create another track again
- 4:59by double tapping on an empty region
- 5:01here
- 5:02and this time I want to control an app
- 5:05that is working in the backgrounds
- 5:07so I'm going to be using this app called
- 5:10synth1
- 5:12by Audio kits
- 5:14now if I play my keyboard here
- 5:19it's directly connected to this app
- 5:21audio kit sent one but I haven't chosen
- 5:24the inputs and outputs of the new track
- 5:26that I created in Key Stage so this is a
- 5:29direct connection which needs to be cut
- 5:30there are different ways to do it I'll
- 5:33show you the simplest way
- 5:35so if I go to settings here I can see
- 5:38that the midi Channel input is Omni
- 5:41which means all channels now my node
- 5:44electric keyboard sends midi signals
- 5:46from Channel 1. but if I change this
- 5:49channel to something else other than
- 5:51Channel One my midi signals from my
- 5:54keyboards will not play The Sounds in
- 5:56audio kit sync one because of because of
- 5:58this channel mismatch
- 6:00so right now the direct connections if
- 6:02is off so I'm good to go but before I go
- 6:05back to Key Stage I need to turn this
- 6:08background audio on because this app is
- 6:11going to be working in the background
- 6:14now I'm going to choose my North Electro
- 6:16again from the inputs
- 6:18and on the outputs I have this audio kit
- 6:21synth one up here
- 6:24now I'm playing my keyboards but I don't
- 6:27hear any sound here
- 6:29so I want to show you something to test
- 6:32why this isn't happening and this is a
- 6:35new debug feature in Key Stage there is
- 6:37this button called midi monitor if I tap
- 6:40this button the midi monitor appears
- 6:43with this track added to the monitoring
- 6:46so
- 6:48when I play my keyboard you can see the
- 6:50incoming meeting signals and the
- 6:52outgoing mini signals here I'm not going
- 6:54to go into the details of midi monitor
- 6:57but let me clear these logs here
- 7:00now the signals are coming and going out
- 7:03in to the outputs of the track but you
- 7:06can see that the channel number is one
- 7:09and I just changed the input channel of
- 7:11audio units audio kit sent one to
- 7:14channel 2. so let me close the midi
- 7:17monitor
- 7:18and here in the output channels I'm
- 7:21gonna choose 2 and deactivate one
- 7:26and now I can control audio kitsync one
- 7:28from Key Stage
- 7:30now I'm going to create another track
- 7:33I'm going to choose node Electro again
- 7:35for this track
- 7:37and when I click the output now you can
- 7:40see it is locked menu items here
- 7:42instrument units effect units midi
- 7:44processor units and other units
- 7:46so these are in-app purchases for
- 7:49keystage so each in-app purchase unlocks
- 7:52a different type of units
- 7:54so I'm gonna click on this unlock button
- 7:56to access the in-app purchases menu you
- 8:00can find the description of each of
- 8:01these in-app purchases
- 8:04and before you decide to purchase you
- 8:06can actually try all these units by
- 8:08clicking here try all units
- 8:11this will open a new session in Key
- 8:13Stage a two hour long session
- 8:16which will be able to use all the in-app
- 8:18purchases of key stage but you won't be
- 8:21able to save your songs or you won't be
- 8:23able to access your files mainly so this
- 8:26is like a trial modes so if I activate
- 8:28the trial modes it's going to be a brand
- 8:32new song
- 8:33where now if I click outputs you can see
- 8:36that all these units are active so this
- 8:39is a two hour long session after these
- 8:41two are you will be prompted back to go
- 8:43to the normal modes or you can manually
- 8:46go to normal mode here by tapping here
- 8:49this will completely open a new song so
- 8:52I I lost all the things that I did so
- 8:54far so I'm going to quickly create them
- 8:58so back to the normal note I want to
- 9:01unlock these uh in-app purchases I
- 9:04already purchased them so I'm going to
- 9:05hit ReStore in our purchases here
- 9:09which will restore all these uh units
- 9:14so I'm going to explain these categories
- 9:16one by one starting with instrument
- 9:18units so these are the standard
- 9:21instrument plugins
- 9:23and these are the ones that I installed
- 9:25into my iPads now a quick note about uh
- 9:28audio unit plugins
- 9:29in in iOS you install apps you cannot
- 9:34install a plugin directly into your iPad
- 9:37and certain plugins certain apps so if I
- 9:41go here to to my list of synth apps
- 9:45most of these scenes have support audio
- 9:48units which means that they can be
- 9:51opened as an audio unit plugin inside
- 9:53the host app like key stage
- 9:55but for example the saint one app
- 9:58doesn't support a audio unit plugin so
- 10:01that's why
- 10:03I cannot find it here I cannot find
- 10:05audio kit sent one here the ones that
- 10:07are supported that the ones that support
- 10:09audio units will show up here in the in
- 10:12the lists
- 10:14so I'm going to open module Pro here
- 10:18as soon as I load the plugin with
- 10:21automatic the place you don't need to
- 10:23worry about these direct connection
- 10:24issues with plug-in units
- 10:27and if I double tap on this track
- 10:30the audio unit view directly opens
- 10:32inside Key Stage so this is one of the
- 10:34big advantages of audio units compared
- 10:37to apps working in the background
- 10:39now I can move this view around I can
- 10:42change the scale
- 10:44or I can even choose frames from a set
- 10:47of
- 10:48predefined frames here
- 10:51so I can change the sound directly from
- 10:54from the plugin itself
- 10:56foreign
- 11:01here
- 11:03[Music]
- 11:07okay I'm going to close this audio units
- 11:09here from this x here so we have created
- 11:12three tracks now let's talk about parts
- 11:14and sections and the interactions
- 11:16between them now if I double tap on any
- 11:20of the region here
- 11:22I create a part and a section is
- 11:24automatically created here
- 11:26now if I play my keyboards
- 11:30I can hear I can only hear the sound of
- 11:34North
- 11:35this is because on this section which is
- 11:38the active section right now and it's
- 11:40denoted by this White Strip here
- 11:43there is a there is a part corresponding
- 11:46to North Electro 5 but there are no
- 11:48parts corresponding to audio kit sent
- 11:50one or the module Pro and because of
- 11:52that I can only hear the sound for Nord
- 11:55Electra
- 11:56now if I tap and hold this part move it
- 11:59down here
- 12:01this time I can only hear audio kit sent
- 12:04one and likewise if I moved here
- 12:07I can hear module Pro
- 12:10and if I create another part here by
- 12:12double tapping here now I have Parts
- 12:15corresponding to module Pro and node
- 12:17Electro
- 12:19I can hear these two sounds layers
- 12:22or I can hear
- 12:25all of these sounds layers
- 12:30so this is section one the first section
- 12:33if I move this part
- 12:35over here
- 12:37another section is created and on this
- 12:39section only a part corresponding to
- 12:42audio kits sent one available
- 12:45so I can hear audio kit here
- 12:49and I can hear the layered sound of node
- 12:52and module Pro here
- 12:53so sections in Key Stage are like
- 12:56presets or scenes where you can have
- 12:59layers or songs or even splits or songs
- 13:01that I'm going to talk about later and
- 13:04depending on how you use it you you may
- 13:07use sections as songs itself or you may
- 13:11use sections as sections of a song where
- 13:14like it's intro chorus or verse
- 13:17so while we're edits uh I'm gonna talk
- 13:20about some of the actions that you can
- 13:22do all on on these blogs so you can
- 13:25double tap to create a partner or a
- 13:28track you can move them around by
- 13:29dragging
- 13:30to holding and dragging you can do the
- 13:33same things with tracks
- 13:35so you can change the order of these we
- 13:37can you can tap and hold and move it in
- 13:40between two tracks and if you hold the
- 13:44track or a part with two fingers
- 13:47you create a copy of it so I create a
- 13:50copy of module Pro so I have now two
- 13:52copies of the of the same audio units
- 13:55you can do the same thing with parts you
- 13:57can create a copy hold and create a copy
- 14:00of them
- 14:00you can also squeeze Parts between two
- 14:04parts so you can see this vertical red
- 14:07strip which indicates that I'm going to
- 14:09squeeze this part Within These two parts
- 14:11when you do that a section is created as
- 14:13well
- 14:15and when you tap on these you can also
- 14:17do this all these things with sections
- 14:19you can put sections between two you can
- 14:22copy sections
- 14:23by holding and dragging with two fingers
- 14:27and whenever you select a part a track
- 14:30or a section you can see these trash can
- 14:32icons when you tap them it transforms
- 14:35into delete and when you tap on delete
- 14:37again it deletes
- 14:39so I'm going to delete these extra
- 14:40sections now
- 14:46and by the way you can select sections
- 14:49by tapping on these vertical strips in
- 14:52the parts you don't need to directly tap
- 14:54on the sections itself
- 14:55you can easily select sections by just
- 14:58tapping on the corresponding vertical
- 15:00strip here
- 15:01okay now let's go into the parts
- 15:04now in the part editor here there are
- 15:06two sections the parameters and
- 15:09translators so we're going to start with
- 15:11translators here
- 15:12there are lots of things to cover with
- 15:15translator I'll just go through the most
- 15:16essential ones uh start with range
- 15:19limiter so the range limiter as the name
- 15:23suggests limits the range of your
- 15:25keyboard for that specific part
- 15:27now each of these translators can be
- 15:30activated by tapping on these buttons or
- 15:33can be deactivated
- 15:35so I'm going to activate this translator
- 15:37and I'm gonna tap it's currently in full
- 15:39range
- 15:42if I tap on this full range this view
- 15:45shows up this is where you set up the
- 15:48new range
- 15:49now there are two ways to do that
- 15:52you can manually drag your finger across
- 15:55this virtual keyboard to assign to add
- 15:58ranges to add notes to your range
- 16:01we can tap mute to clear the range you
- 16:05can set the full range again or you can
- 16:08tap remove notes to
- 16:10remove notes from from the edit range
- 16:13so let's mute it first
- 16:16switch to add nodes
- 16:18the easier method is direct by directly
- 16:21using your keyboards so
- 16:24as you keep playing your no keyboards
- 16:26those notes are added to the range
- 16:29or you can add intervals like pipe
- 16:33simultaneously pressing two notes
- 16:38we can add ranges like that
- 16:40[Music]
- 16:41and then if you click outside this range
- 16:44is assigned to this part
- 16:47so anything about B4 or below C1 or
- 16:51muted here
- 16:52so using this let's create a splits with
- 16:57these three instruments
- 16:58uh let's
- 17:00create Parts here as well
- 17:03now when I play I can hear all the
- 17:07sounds both not Electro module or synth
- 17:11one but suppose I just want to hear the
- 17:14instruments that I'm working on that I'm
- 17:17editing for example here or not I just
- 17:20want to hear
- 17:21uh North electrode while this part is
- 17:24selected now there is a option in Key
- 17:27Stage for that here
- 17:30always solo selected parts
- 17:33when you activate this
- 17:36if a part is selected
- 17:39the corresponding track will only play
- 17:42and all the others are automatically
- 17:44muted
- 17:45but if a section is selected this this
- 17:48will have no no effects
- 17:51so this is really good for editing and
- 17:54as I usually keep this on while I'm
- 17:56editing my song so here I'm on Nord
- 17:59Electro I want to assign uh this piano
- 18:03instrument on the top range of my
- 18:05keyboard so I'm going to tap range
- 18:08limiter and on my keyboard I'm gonna
- 18:11press
- 18:13this range from uh D4 up to the top
- 18:19range of my node keyboards
- 18:21so it's D3 not D4
- 18:23and the other two instruments I want to
- 18:26assign the rest of the range so
- 18:30I'm gonna press press the range limiter
- 18:32well there's already a range assigned so
- 18:35I'm gonna mute it first and then assign
- 18:37the same range
- 18:39so now I have created a split
- 18:42so when I play the uh upper regions I
- 18:46don't hear anything right now because
- 18:48this part is selected and always solo
- 18:52selected part is on that's why node
- 18:54Electro cannot be played right now but
- 18:56if I select the section
- 18:58[Music]
- 19:07I created a splits with the audio kit
- 19:11synth phone and module Pro on my left
- 19:13hand and the piano on the right hands
- 19:15now I'm not going to go through all
- 19:17these translators here in detail but I
- 19:19just want to talk about this Auto
- 19:21sustain feature which is kind of a
- 19:22unique feature of Key Stage so I'm going
- 19:25to create another part here
- 19:27this is the choir
- 19:30now if I toggle Auto state
- 19:33[Music]
- 19:40I'm not using my pedal right now all the
- 19:43chords are automatically sustained and
- 19:45as soon as I change the chords the pedal
- 19:48on off signal is automatically triggered
- 19:51on that part on that specific part
- 19:54and if I want to stop the auto sustain I
- 19:57just press my sustain pedal to stop it
- 19:59okay so much for the translators now I
- 20:02want to talk about these parameters here
- 20:04but I'm going to start from scratch I'm
- 20:06going to delete these sections
- 20:10and create a single part on this module
- 20:13Pro now this parameter section controls
- 20:16the sound of the connected Plugin or
- 20:20Hardware instruments whatever it is
- 20:22including the unit volume here so I'm
- 20:25going to start with this unit volume
- 20:27[Music]
- 20:29so I can change the volume here
- 20:33for this specific parts
- 20:36so if I create another part here
- 20:38and increase the volume here
- 20:43I can have two different volume values
- 20:45for these two different parts
- 20:48now
- 20:49you can see that
- 20:51on these parts the volume is active this
- 20:54is an active parameter so you will
- 20:56encounter this active parameters a lot
- 20:58in in key stage in general
- 21:01when a parameter is active the value is
- 21:04assigned the value is sent to the output
- 21:06of the track as soon as the section the
- 21:09correspondence section becomes active
- 21:12so right now the section 2 is active
- 21:15because of this white uh vertical strip
- 21:18as soon as I activate section one
- 21:22the volume value here is sent to the
- 21:25audio units module Pro
- 21:27but here
- 21:29the volume is not active and because of
- 21:31that as soon as I activate this section
- 21:33or this part it doesn't matter
- 21:36no volume value will be sent to the to
- 21:38the module Pro so the volume will not
- 21:40change so to demonstrate that let's say
- 21:43I'm on this part 2 with full volume
- 21:48if I move to part three the volume will
- 21:51stay at full volume it won't change
- 21:53because the volume parameter is not
- 21:55active
- 21:56if I'm on part one with volume minus 5.7
- 22:00decibels
- 22:02again if I move to a volume of a part
- 22:05three the volume will stay at that minus
- 22:085.7 decibel because there is no active
- 22:11unit volume perimeter here and the same
- 22:13is true for audio Unit 10 here
- 22:16now let's talk about uh Parts on middle
- 22:19tracks the parameters on on Parts with
- 22:22which are connected to music tracks now
- 22:25when I select this part I can see these
- 22:28midi parameters here
- 22:30these parameters came with the
- 22:33instrument preset that we downloaded at
- 22:35the beginning of the tutorial video so
- 22:37these parameters control the uh certain
- 22:40parameters on my Note Electro 5.
- 22:44and there is also this volume this
- 22:46volume is the default parameter it
- 22:48always comes even if I don't download an
- 22:51instrument presets
- 22:52and the standard CC number for the
- 22:55volume is seven it's the standard means
- 22:57volume midi signal and this slider just
- 23:01works the same way as on audio units so
- 23:05it can be active or inactive
- 23:06[Music]
- 23:09so if I
- 23:11activate the volume here
- 23:13the volume changes from here to here but
- 23:16here the volume is inactive
- 23:19it doesn't change when I move to part
- 23:21three
- 23:22and the same is true for all the
- 23:24parameters that you can see here you can
- 23:26change the different aspects of note
- 23:28Electro from these parameters
- 23:30okay
- 23:32what about the sound itself how can I
- 23:34change the sounds well the instrument
- 23:36preset also provides the list of songs
- 23:40insights inside the connected
- 23:42instruments see inside node Electro in
- 23:45this case so when I tap here I can
- 23:47access all the sounds
- 23:49the preset sounds that are stored in
- 23:52Northern Electra and directly choose a
- 23:54sound here
- 24:01so this way
- 24:03I can change instruments from part to
- 24:05parts
- 24:07so let's say I choose
- 24:09a piano sound here
- 24:13and an EP and a sound here
- 24:17so sounds can be dynamic to change from
- 24:20section to section for Midi parts
- 24:23okay what about
- 24:25uh Parts which are connected to audio
- 24:27units
- 24:29so let me delete these parts again
- 24:32now
- 24:33for audio unit plugins things work a
- 24:36little bit different
- 24:39so this is let's Center this pan here
- 24:44so when I select these parts
- 24:48it says no instrument preset here well
- 24:50Eastern preset can also be attached to
- 24:53audio instead I'm not going to go into
- 24:54that in this tutorial video it's a bit
- 24:56Advanced but uh you have much more
- 25:00control of audio units when it comes to
- 25:03changing sounds so
- 25:05as you remember when I select a track
- 25:08and double tap on it
- 25:10this view comes in the the user
- 25:14interface of the audio unit just appears
- 25:17and it also appears when I double tap on
- 25:20on the parts the same user interface
- 25:23so right now if I change the sound here
- 25:28okay
- 25:29a new parameter edits just click don't
- 25:32show this message again this is a bit
- 25:34Advanced uh I'm gonna explain it in
- 25:37another tutorial video or you can look
- 25:38it up in the manual again so just don't
- 25:41just press don't show that message again
- 25:44now if I select a part and change the
- 25:47instrument here
- 25:49by default
- 25:51it's just changed on the track it's not
- 25:53changed on the parts
- 25:55so there is only one instrument right
- 25:56now assigned so these parts doesn't
- 25:58contain any instrument information
- 26:00however you can change this Behavior
- 26:04if we select the parts
- 26:06there is this switch here which says
- 26:09parts store and store and callback full
- 26:12states of audio units okay a full state
- 26:16of an audio units technically means the
- 26:20whole information of a sound including
- 26:23all the parameters all the presets
- 26:26everything
- 26:28basically what you see here
- 26:30all these parameters whatever you choose
- 26:33here
- 26:34and by default this switch is off means
- 26:38parts do not store or callback full
- 26:40states of audio units
- 26:43but if I change this switch on
- 26:46let me zoom in well yeah you can
- 26:48actually change the scale by
- 26:50dragging your finger over over this
- 26:53region
- 26:56whenever I activate this switch you can
- 26:59see this FS f symbols on parts and also
- 27:03on the track this means that full States
- 27:05is enabled for this track
- 27:07and this means now Parts can store and
- 27:11call back full States
- 27:13and you can see now this changes to a
- 27:16completely different view it says module
- 27:19Pro here now I'm directly accessing to
- 27:21the module Pro Sounds
- 27:24rather than sending some program change
- 27:26and Bank select messages
- 27:28and this says full state is active for
- 27:30this part now if I double tap on this
- 27:33Parts change the sound here
- 27:37this setting with this Choice with
- 27:41everything that I every adjustment that
- 27:43I do here including like all these
- 27:45parameters here
- 27:47[Music]
- 27:49are stored on these parts as soon as I
- 27:52leave this part move to another parts
- 27:54these choices are stored on this part
- 27:57now on part two I have a different
- 27:59instruments
- 28:00let's choose another one here let's say
- 28:08so
- 28:15foreign
- 28:19so now all these three parts have three
- 28:21different sounds
- 28:22assigned to them
- 28:24so you can change the
- 28:26parameters here
- 28:29or you can see that as you change the
- 28:32parameter this slide removed so this
- 28:34slider controls that parameter so they
- 28:36are these are incomplete sync with these
- 28:39parameters
- 28:40so let's say increase the release Here
- 28:43[Music]
- 28:48now
- 28:49the way full States act on Parts is very
- 28:53similar to the volume the active volume
- 28:57parameter here
- 28:59so
- 29:01If I deactivate full State on this part
- 29:03so you can do this either by tapping on
- 29:07this
- 29:08button here or if you double tap on the
- 29:11part to bring up the user interface you
- 29:14can also change the
- 29:16full States I mean whether you full set
- 29:18is active on this part or not
- 29:21from this bottom here
- 29:23so when full state is inactive on the
- 29:26parts
- 29:27it doesn't store the full state or call
- 29:30back to full state so just like the
- 29:32unit's volume
- 29:33whatever the last full state is whatever
- 29:35the last sound is on this audio units as
- 29:39I move to this part though a new sound
- 29:42will not be loaded so here we are on
- 29:44people
- 29:48and if I move to this part I'm still on
- 29:50the same piano sounds and you can see
- 29:53the f is gone on this part
- 29:55but if I move from
- 29:57these parts to part three
- 30:00again now the whatever the last sound is
- 30:04the sound stays the same a new sound is
- 30:07not loaded if the full state is off okay
- 30:10so much for full States and parameters
- 30:11uh let's talk about effect units uh
- 30:15before I do that I want to create
- 30:17another instrument unit here
- 30:20as you see when I copy the track the
- 30:22part is automatically copied as well all
- 30:24the parts actually are automatically
- 30:26copied let's delete this I'm going to
- 30:28choose another instrument for a unit
- 30:31here let's choose
- 30:34Hammond's b3x to organ simulator
- 30:38and let's create a part here for that
- 30:43okay now I'm going to create an effect
- 30:46units
- 30:47from the
- 30:49effect in its category let's create this
- 30:53overdrive effect
- 30:55so this is an audio units plugin so I
- 30:58can double tap on the track to open its
- 31:00user interface
- 31:02but it's not connected to any instrument
- 31:04instrument unit yet
- 31:07I'm going to create another effect unit
- 31:08before I show you how to connect them
- 31:12I'm going to create this Reverb effects
- 31:14so I have these two effect units two
- 31:17audio units
- 31:19to be able to connect them to audio
- 31:22units to audio instrument units I'll go
- 31:25to song mixer here
- 31:26now the song mixer has three parts
- 31:30uh on the right side we have the volume
- 31:32this master volume here we have the
- 31:35channel strips for which corresponds to
- 31:37tracks midi tracks and instruments units
- 31:40here
- 31:41and on the left we have these effect
- 31:43units which are not connected to
- 31:45anything yet so let's go to section two
- 31:49uh this is the section with parts on
- 31:52module Pro
- 31:54and
- 31:56I'm gonna connect this effect by holding
- 31:59and dragging it into the channel strip
- 32:03and I think this is automatically
- 32:05applying
- 32:08I can change the parameters and by the
- 32:10way as you can see I can tap on these
- 32:13you don't I don't need to double tap I
- 32:15by just simply tapping on these icons of
- 32:17audio units I can open their user
- 32:19interface directly from the song mixer
- 32:23so this effect is connected to module
- 32:25Pro
- 32:27and on Section 3 I have Hammonds and
- 32:30let's connect this effect to Hammonds
- 32:33the Reverb effects
- 32:35or
- 32:36I can connect these effects
- 32:39both of the effects into Hammond by
- 32:41again simply dragging
- 32:43or I can change the order by holding
- 32:47this Reverb and reconnecting it into
- 32:49Hammond so it's always connected at the
- 32:51end of this effect chain here
- 32:54[Music]
- 32:57you probably have realized that when I
- 32:59change from section to section
- 33:02the channel strips highlights changes
- 33:05the colors the brightness are changing
- 33:07so on section 2 there is a part
- 33:10connected to module Pro but there isn't
- 33:12a part connected to Hammonds and vice
- 33:15versa on section three so these are
- 33:17indicated by highlighted strips or
- 33:20non-highlighted strips like that on
- 33:22section one I have not Electro
- 33:25as you can see a part connected to node
- 33:28Electro and all the other channel strips
- 33:30are dark so there are no parts connected
- 33:32to it so you can easily keep track of
- 33:35which tracks are active and which tracks
- 33:37are not on each section
- 33:39from directly from the song mixer
- 33:41one other quick note you can change the
- 33:44volumes of the tracks or the parts here
- 33:49and there's this active button which is
- 33:51added actually with version 2.1 this
- 33:54active button is nothing but
- 33:57this active button here is the same so
- 34:00if the unit volume is active on this
- 34:04part
- 34:05it just also indicated here with active
- 34:08button and I can deactivate it here
- 34:11and by the way if I double tap on the
- 34:13volume it just becomes uh zero decibel
- 34:17the default volume
- 34:18now back to effects
- 34:20there is another way to connect effects
- 34:25and this is through mixer units
- 34:28so I'll create another track now and
- 34:31from the outputs
- 34:33I type other units and there are three
- 34:36different types of units here these are
- 34:39units specific to Key Stage these are
- 34:41not audio unit plugins
- 34:44um I'm just going to talk about mixer
- 34:46units now mixed units are submixers in
- 34:50Key Stage
- 34:51so there are two ways to use them I'll
- 34:54first show you the simple one the simple
- 34:58use
- 34:59now if you look at the channel strips at
- 35:02the bottom of each Channel strip there
- 35:04is the outputs of that channel strip so
- 35:06these are the outputs of my audio
- 35:09interface my audio interface is output
- 35:13but if I tap on this I can choose
- 35:16different outputs of my audio interface
- 35:18or I can connect it to a mixer
- 35:23let me do the same thing with the
- 35:24Hammonds
- 35:27so now
- 35:33both of these audio units are connected
- 35:35to to this mixer here
- 35:37so if I turn the volume down of this
- 35:40mixer both audio units volume are just
- 35:43completely muted
- 35:45and if I connect effects to this mixer
- 35:50let's take this out
- 35:52they are basically applied to all the
- 35:55audio units that are connected to this
- 35:56mixer
- 35:58so this is the simple way but there
- 36:00isn't better way to use these effect
- 36:03units
- 36:04which are through these sense here so to
- 36:08demonstrate that let me connect these to
- 36:10the outputs on my Hardware again
- 36:13disconnected from the mixer
- 36:16if I tap sense here
- 36:19non-mixier audio units instrument units
- 36:22will have these new icons called sense
- 36:26and it's basically a sense like a
- 36:30percentage of the output or the volume
- 36:32will be sent to this mixer
- 36:34here
- 36:39and it actually demonstrates better with
- 36:41Reverb effects so I'm just going to
- 36:43connect the Reverb here
- 36:48so I'm sending 47 of the outputs to this
- 36:53mixer
- 36:54[Music]
- 36:57but the helmets has zero so let me also
- 37:00increase this
- 37:01[Music]
- 37:06and for any number of mixer units that
- 37:09will be sent automatically created on
- 37:11these Channel strips here
- 37:13and you can see also there is this
- 37:15active button on this sense as well well
- 37:18that's because
- 37:19these sense the amount of distance also
- 37:22appears here as as parameters track
- 37:25parameters so they behave the same way
- 37:27as unit volume they can be activated
- 37:29deactivated and the amount of sense can
- 37:33be changed from part to parts
- 37:35so you can see I'm having different
- 37:38sound values let's move this here
- 37:44so I can have zero sound here
- 37:47I can't have
- 37:49like 93 Cent here
- 37:52or if I create another part here let me
- 37:55delete this part here
- 37:59the sound is inactive here so whatever
- 38:01the Lost value is
- 38:03it stays that way so
- 38:05here it's 93 here it's zero
- 38:09here it's inactive so it stays zero but
- 38:12if I move from section 3 to section one
- 38:15section one it stays 93 because it's
- 38:19inactive here
- 38:22so Sans is a new way of rooting uh
- 38:26signals through effects in 2.1
- 38:30before I move on I'll briefly talk about
- 38:32player units without going too much into
- 38:35details so I'm going to create another
- 38:37track here
- 38:39and create a player unit here these are
- 38:42basically units that can play audio
- 38:43files so in order to be able to do that
- 38:46we first need to transfer some audio
- 38:48files into Key Stage I'll just transfer
- 38:50one audio file
- 38:52I prepared a file here
- 38:57let's transfer this file
- 39:00using the share feature of iOS
- 39:04so I'm going to choose
- 39:07Key Stage from the list
- 39:10so if I double tap on this audio player
- 39:14I can see the list of all imported files
- 39:18or recordings so keystage can actually
- 39:20record audio I'm not going to go through
- 39:23this in this tutorial video because it's
- 39:25kind of an advanced function but here is
- 39:28the video that I imported
- 39:31from
- 39:32from the file section let me reduce the
- 39:35volume a bit
- 39:36[Music]
- 39:39so
- 39:40uh it just plays audio and there are
- 39:44certain functions that you can do you
- 39:46can change the starting points
- 39:49so you can go cycle through these
- 39:54so you can use your gesture to
- 39:56zoom into the waveform
- 39:58then tap here to follow the line
- 40:02you can move on different parts
- 40:06stop and you can actually automate all
- 40:08these using some Advanced
- 40:10functionalities like cousin translators
- 40:12which I'm not going to show right now
- 40:14actually I made sure in the later
- 40:17and so these are these are just audio
- 40:19players so there are lots of features
- 40:21about them but I'm not gonna go through
- 40:22them go through all of them
- 40:26okay now let me show you how you can
- 40:28control uh different parameters like
- 40:30volume or pen or different features of
- 40:32Key Stage using your external MIDI
- 40:34controller using sliders and knobs on
- 40:37your uh controller or MIDI controller
- 40:39now we need to go back to this
- 40:42parameters here again
- 40:44now on these parameters let me activate
- 40:46the volume and pan here you can see on
- 40:50the unit volume there is this cc7 and on
- 40:53unit pan this is cc10 but here on the
- 40:56other parameters I don't see anything
- 40:58now this means the unit volume
- 41:01actually can be controlled using uh
- 41:04control chain seven signals from from
- 41:07the MIDI controller so this is what I'm
- 41:10doing right now I'm moving the volume
- 41:12knob on my midi keyboard and the One
- 41:14automatically changes here and if I
- 41:16deactivate it and change the volume it
- 41:19automatically becomes activated
- 41:20so I can control the volume right now
- 41:24right from the beginning because these
- 41:26are automatically assigned to unit
- 41:27volume and audio units pan these two
- 41:30numbers
- 41:31and so you can also there see that
- 41:33they're all reflected well since all my
- 41:35tracks have uh cc7
- 41:39let's see this part cc7 is assigned to
- 41:43all of these tracks
- 41:44they are controlled and on both tracks
- 41:48and in fact if I
- 41:50tap on this mixer and
- 41:53activate this inputs nodes input on this
- 41:57mixer as well it will also control that
- 41:59so
- 42:00okay but now suppose I want to control
- 42:04these volumes
- 42:05with different knobs on my controller
- 42:08not I don't want to control them
- 42:10simultaneously with a single knob so
- 42:13what I'm going to do is I I'll tap here
- 42:16let's say I want to control the volume
- 42:18or module probe with seven
- 42:21but I want to control the volume of
- 42:24Hammonds with something else
- 42:26now there is this midi button midi learn
- 42:29button if I tap this
- 42:32this small view pops up and it says
- 42:35middle there move your slider or Knob or
- 42:37your MIDI controller to assign
- 42:41any a different CC number so I'm moving
- 42:43another Knob here
- 42:45so it's actually it's a control change
- 42:47113
- 42:49so now this mob controls the volume of
- 42:52of this track
- 42:54and for Midi track let's create a part
- 42:57on this mixer so that I can assign
- 42:58another uh knob here
- 43:02I can move this knob here or I can
- 43:04manually choose whatever number I have
- 43:07but I'm just going to choose the knob
- 43:09here
- 43:10so now I have three knobs assigned to
- 43:12different uh three volumes on different
- 43:14tracks
- 43:16and I can control them independently as
- 43:19you can see
- 43:20and not only volume all the parameters
- 43:23can be assigned CC numbers here
- 43:26so I can actually even assign a cc
- 43:29number to a cents
- 43:31so let's say I assign this
- 43:34on the send of module Pro sent to this
- 43:38mixer
- 43:40as you can see I by changing the knob I
- 43:43can change the value on of the sense
- 43:46and also the same works with all these
- 43:49audio unit parameters and here actually
- 43:51I'm going to show you something cool uh
- 43:54let's do this on hemins I'm going to
- 43:56double tap on hemons
- 43:58I can assign this CC assignments on
- 44:02these parameters by again tapping on
- 44:04these bottoms here
- 44:06but there is a better rate there is an
- 44:08easier way
- 44:09now why not Electro has this drawback
- 44:12controls and I want to assign these
- 44:14drawbar controls to these drawbars here
- 44:17so there is this midi learn button here
- 44:21when I tap this
- 44:23audio units turns into a midi learn mode
- 44:27why so it's indicated by this blue
- 44:30rectangle
- 44:32and while we're in this mode
- 44:34if I tweak a parameter here
- 44:36it says upper row bar one key stage is
- 44:40waiting for Midi signal to assign to
- 44:42Upward drawbar one this one so I don't
- 44:44need to find output row bar one from
- 44:47this list here
- 44:49I can directly choose it tweak it here
- 44:52and then assign it here
- 44:56so I'm able to assign all these drawbars
- 44:59from from my Nord keyboard using this
- 45:01middle learn function so you can control
- 45:04these parameters uh using your sliders
- 45:06and knobs on these if I actually go
- 45:09through this list here
- 45:12you can see that these assignments are
- 45:13made here you can you can you can also
- 45:15unassign them if you want now there are
- 45:18several ways to control different parts
- 45:20of Key Stage using external midi control
- 45:22but I'm going to show one more essential
- 45:25parts
- 45:26in order to do that I need to go to
- 45:28preferences here
- 45:29in preferences there is this external
- 45:31midi control parts
- 45:34Now using your external foot pedal you
- 45:37can actually change sections
- 45:39and this is the part where you do that
- 45:43so from the midi inputs
- 45:46I'm going to choose my North Electro
- 45:49and in this first section here
- 45:52is for changing sections
- 45:55now make sure that this switch is off
- 45:58you assign a control change number to
- 46:01next section and you assign another
- 46:02control change number to previous
- 46:04section if you want so we are also
- 46:06having the midi learn buttons here so I
- 46:08tap on this and press my pad off so it's
- 46:11CC number 82 and I assign it so now
- 46:16I can move to next section by just
- 46:19tapping on my pedal
- 46:21okay now I'm gonna talk about custom
- 46:24translators so custom translators are
- 46:27the foundational blocks of advanced midi
- 46:30features or Advanced automation features
- 46:32of Key Stage so I'll just cover a couple
- 46:35of examples here there will be other
- 46:37tutorial videos related to custom
- 46:40translators but so uh what are custom
- 46:43translators
- 46:44as you can see these are standard
- 46:47translators midi translators
- 46:49where on Parts if you tap here on custom
- 46:54translators there is this translators
- 46:56with a plus sign here
- 46:58if you tap on a track you have also have
- 47:00the translators with plus sign here if
- 47:04you tap on song properties here
- 47:06are some other additional customizations
- 47:08here that I'm going to talk about later
- 47:10but you can also add translators here so
- 47:12these are Trump's atriums that you
- 47:14customize yourself for different
- 47:16behaviors and there are some other parts
- 47:18where you can add custom translators I'm
- 47:20also going to talk about them later but
- 47:23uh for now let me start with a custom
- 47:26translator on this organ parts
- 47:29now if I tap on this plus sign there is
- 47:33this new menu popping up and in the
- 47:37category section there's this custom
- 47:39translators that you create yourself
- 47:40here but the cool thing is now there is
- 47:45a database of custom translators in the
- 47:47database of key stage and I'll keep
- 47:50improving this list this set of presets
- 47:53preset custom translators that that will
- 47:56be available to you and every time I
- 47:57upload a new one it will automatically
- 48:00upload it here so let's start by using
- 48:03one of these ones and I'm gonna go ahead
- 48:06and use one of these node translators
- 48:09you can see these info buttons here
- 48:11similar to these ones
- 48:13these basically give you the description
- 48:15of what this translator or translator
- 48:18chain does so these are actual chains of
- 48:21translators they they are actually
- 48:22multiple translators working together
- 48:24but let's choose this decimal one
- 48:27staccato
- 48:31so it's a simple translator it just
- 48:34turns your controller into a staccato
- 48:36and you can actually adjust the duration
- 48:38here duration here
- 48:40in milliseconds
- 48:44and actually what happens here is
- 48:47there's a script working behind this so
- 48:49scripts is a new feature in key stage
- 48:52and it's the most advanced feature
- 48:55basically in Key Stage which allows you
- 48:56to basically do anything with custom
- 48:59translators
- 49:00okay let's skip this so I can delete
- 49:03custom translators here let's try
- 49:06another one
- 49:07again from node translator highest notes
- 49:10okay this is a full set of translators
- 49:14working together which is quite a
- 49:16complicated one but what it does is
- 49:20when I press a chord
- 49:23it only plays the highest notes
- 49:26so this actually works well with in
- 49:29conjunction with other audio units
- 49:30layered together
- 49:34let's actually adjust the volumes of it
- 49:37so if you can hear
- 49:43when I play a chords only the highest
- 49:46note of the chord is sent to the
- 49:48Hammonds where the whole code is played
- 49:51on auditor
- 49:54foreign
- 50:01so these are some examples of custom
- 50:03translated presets let me create one for
- 50:09a specific function here
- 50:11for this audio player actually so let me
- 50:14show you what you can do with custom
- 50:15translators
- 50:17the pose on this let me actually do this
- 50:20on this track instead of the parts so I
- 50:22tap on this track and I create a custom
- 50:25translator instead of choosing one of
- 50:27these preset ones I'm going to create
- 50:28add a new custom translator now the
- 50:31defaults a user interface of custom
- 50:34translator looks like this which
- 50:36actually changes when I make the changes
- 50:38here so custom translators has inputs
- 50:41and outputs so they trigger when the
- 50:44input condition is met and the output is
- 50:47whatever the output is it can be a midi
- 50:49signal it can be a trigger so I want to
- 50:52start this player by pressing a note on
- 50:55my keyboards
- 50:56I'm going to choose node here first
- 50:59and as the outputs
- 51:01when I tap output I have a bunch of
- 51:04options here I can control the unit
- 51:06volume by sending node signals a script
- 51:10is like the the most advanced one but
- 51:12there are these player events
- 51:14and I place look at the player events
- 51:17and it says start playing from left
- 51:21locator now some additional options
- 51:24shows up here I should options change
- 51:26here and so I don't want to start
- 51:30playing with with any notes that I play
- 51:32I just want to assign a specific note
- 51:34for that function so the node trigger
- 51:38range
- 51:39I'm going to choose assign this Note 3
- 51:42range to a single note so I pressed on
- 51:44this
- 51:45press and auto assign the lower range
- 51:47I'm just gonna press the lowest note on
- 51:49my keyboard and do the same thing with
- 51:51this
- 51:53okay now the problem is it doesn't work
- 51:57the reason is okay let's try to find
- 51:59what the reason is if I open the midi
- 52:02monitor so the player unit track doesn't
- 52:04receive animated signals because its
- 52:06input is not connected so you need to
- 52:08connect my keyboards to this track first
- 52:12but now
- 52:15every time I press the notes it starts
- 52:18from the left locator let's go ahead and
- 52:21create another one I'm gonna assign the
- 52:24next node
- 52:25uh to stop playing again
- 52:30assign its
- 52:34range here
- 52:38so F0 stops playing
- 52:41and e0 starts playing
- 52:48so using this custom translator I can
- 52:50automate the transport controls of this
- 52:53audio player
- 52:55okay I'm gonna show one more example
- 52:57actually two more examples
- 53:00let me delete these translators
- 53:02and in order to show these examples I
- 53:05need to go to another place
- 53:07I need to go to the midi connections you
- 53:10can actually add translators directly to
- 53:13input connections or input aliases in
- 53:17key stages terminology so media aliases
- 53:20not eliasis aliases
- 53:23are placeholders for your midi
- 53:26connections
- 53:27which which contains some additional
- 53:29information so there is a whole section
- 53:32about media aliases where we can do lots
- 53:34of customizations about media aliases
- 53:36but I'm just going to show a basic
- 53:38example here
- 53:39so when I tap select me to put LSU to
- 53:43edits you can see that I I have all
- 53:45these midi connections so keystage
- 53:48basically sees all the limited
- 53:50connections as midi aliases
- 53:52so these have additional information so
- 53:55I choose my North Electro and I tap edit
- 53:58input alias
- 54:00I'm not going to go all the details
- 54:02about this but an input address can have
- 54:05multiple inputs actually I have only
- 54:07Singleton inputs the important part for
- 54:10me here is I can add translators here as
- 54:12well so what I want to do here is I want
- 54:16to for my node keyboards
- 54:19assign a button here
- 54:21let's midi learn the button
- 54:24I want to assign this button a special
- 54:26events
- 54:28panic button
- 54:29so panic button basically mutes all the
- 54:31sounds and everything
- 54:33so if something happens with the with
- 54:37the connections and you you got stuck
- 54:39notes you might want to have a panic
- 54:41button in your hand so
- 54:45as soon as I press that button all the
- 54:48sound just goes away
- 54:50so you can customize your keyboards your
- 54:53your inputs
- 54:54the way you want and this applies
- 54:57everywhere it just applies to this node
- 55:00keyboard it applies in all songs
- 55:02everywhere this translator universally
- 55:04works on on this node keyboard now and
- 55:08one more place that I want to assign is
- 55:11so I'm I'm kind of jumping from place to
- 55:14place but these are all explained in
- 55:16detail in the menu I'm just giving some
- 55:18examples here so in the audio settings
- 55:20we have lots of settings here
- 55:22but you can actually
- 55:24choose audio units and assign add
- 55:27translators to these audio units here so
- 55:30specifically to Hammond's app there is
- 55:33actually an translator that I want to
- 55:35add
- 55:36and let me show you why I want to do
- 55:38that first
- 55:39I deleted those translators okay so in
- 55:42in the Hammonds app and actually in many
- 55:45organ simulator simulator apps the
- 55:48lowest the lower registers in your
- 55:50keyboard
- 55:51changes your drawbar settings
- 55:55completely
- 55:57so this can be a useful feature but it
- 56:00can also be a problematic feature you
- 56:03don't want to accidentally change the
- 56:05whole robot setting by pressing on the
- 56:07note by mistake so I want to disable
- 56:10this I want to disable this feature of
- 56:12hemins from Key Stage
- 56:15so I choose the Hammonds app as you can
- 56:18see you can control which parameters are
- 56:20available and things like that there are
- 56:22some other additional customizations
- 56:24here I'm skipping them but
- 56:26here are translators and here I can add
- 56:29translators
- 56:31I'm again going to choose notes and I'm
- 56:35gonna choose nothing for the output I'm
- 56:37just going to mute certain notes I know
- 56:40that all the notes below b0 controls
- 56:45those drawbar cases so
- 56:48so right now let me show you this way
- 56:51the translator is active I'm pressing
- 56:54those notes that I was controlling the
- 56:56drawbar presets and it's not working but
- 57:00if I disable this custom translator
- 57:02those buttons now control the driver
- 57:05settings I don't want that I just want
- 57:07to disable them so I activate this and
- 57:09now those keys will not trigger drawbar
- 57:12settings and the cool thing is that it
- 57:14works for all Hammond instances so if I
- 57:17even if I multiple heml instances
- 57:21those keys will not trigger the helmets
- 57:24presets so there's a couple of examples
- 57:27to use custom translators there are lots
- 57:29and lots of users but uh this is just a
- 57:33simple summary of that
- 57:35okay the last part that I want to talk
- 57:36about is this live console
- 57:39now live console has different parts
- 57:42different units actually different
- 57:43active units
- 57:45which can be selected here
- 57:47the standard active unit is this unit
- 57:49which simply shows
- 57:52the overall overall structure of your
- 57:55parts tracks
- 57:56the song volume is here there is this
- 57:58transport transpose control a global
- 58:01transpose control that transpose control
- 58:03is actually this transverse control here
- 58:06but let's say we had some splits and
- 58:11layerings here
- 58:12let me quickly
- 58:14create one
- 58:17suppose we have a
- 58:21a bunch of
- 58:22ranges here
- 58:26and if I go to the live console you can
- 58:29see all the layerings and how they are
- 58:32actually lined up with each other on
- 58:36this uh info units so the active unit
- 58:39here is info units and when you play
- 58:41your keyboards
- 58:42you can see
- 58:45uh the notes here so you can actually
- 58:47track whether you're in in a region or
- 58:51not
- 58:52so this is info units uh you can add
- 58:55some notes Here for yourself
- 58:58well the thing is each section
- 59:02for each section you can choose one of
- 59:05the five units so for example for
- 59:07Section 3 I can choose an XY control
- 59:09units
- 59:11and for section one I can choose name uh
- 59:14media units which I'm going to talk
- 59:16about soon
- 59:17so as I move through sections those
- 59:20those units becomes activated
- 59:23and for the last section I can for
- 59:25example choose lyrics so yeah you can
- 59:27actually write lyrics here
- 59:29and I'm not going to go into the details
- 59:32of all these active units there's a
- 59:34specific one that I want to talk about
- 59:35which is the media units
- 59:38the media units has the feature to show
- 59:42PDF and GPX files as well as
- 59:45the user interfaces of your audio units
- 59:48either effects instruments so let's say
- 59:51on section two I want to just show the
- 59:54user interface of my module Pro
- 59:56or on section one
- 59:59I moved to Media units activate media
- 1:00:02units suppose I want to show helmets and
- 1:00:04one of the helmets so you can see there
- 1:00:06are two helmets here
- 1:00:08and you can see you can I can either
- 1:00:10choose the elements on uh track four or
- 1:00:13track nine
- 1:00:15but let's talk about this PDF and GPA
- 1:00:18files this is probably the most common
- 1:00:19use for the media files for the media
- 1:00:22units so in order to do that I need to
- 1:00:25import a PDF file
- 1:00:27and I have this available in my Dropbox
- 1:00:31account
- 1:00:32so if I go to accounts
- 1:00:37I actually put it into the offline files
- 1:00:41I'm gonna share this
- 1:00:44send a copy of the file
- 1:00:47to
- 1:00:49key stage
- 1:00:52so it's uploaded again into the media
- 1:00:56folder so back to the live console
- 1:01:01now if I go here
- 1:01:03I can choose the PDF file
- 1:01:06I can reposition it the way I want
- 1:01:11and the cool thing is
- 1:01:13the position uh the scroll amount the
- 1:01:16zoom amount all of them are stored on
- 1:01:19this section
- 1:01:20so suppose on another section
- 1:01:22I again choose the media units
- 1:01:25I choose the same PDF file I can have
- 1:01:28multiple PDF files by the way and
- 1:01:30suppose I choose this part of
- 1:01:33the PDF file on here on section two we
- 1:01:36are on a different part so these are
- 1:01:38stored on on sections
- 1:01:41uh
- 1:01:43well there is a files menu which I
- 1:01:45haven't talked about yet
- 1:01:47well this is the place where you
- 1:01:49you know manage your files create your
- 1:01:52songs so we are still on a new song so I
- 1:01:55want to save this as in as a song
- 1:02:03so this is now saved as a demo song
- 1:02:07here so you can create folders here
- 1:02:10let's say covers
- 1:02:13and you can select the song Move oh
- 1:02:17sorry active song Can't Be Moved so I
- 1:02:19first need to
- 1:02:21create a new song
- 1:02:23shouldn't be the active song so I choose
- 1:02:25the more song Move
- 1:02:28select cover open move here
- 1:02:31or you can move copy multiple items yeah
- 1:02:34so these parts are kind of
- 1:02:37self-explanatory one thing that I want
- 1:02:40to talk about here so there's a media
- 1:02:42folder here
- 1:02:44uh in this menu when you double tap
- 1:02:48on any item
- 1:02:50either a folder or a song Whatever
- 1:02:53this function here on the top right
- 1:02:57corner is automatically applied so for
- 1:03:00songs it loads the song when I double
- 1:03:01tap on it
- 1:03:04so this song is now loaded from the
- 1:03:06beginning
- 1:03:08or if I selected this set list for
- 1:03:11example it turns into open when I double
- 1:03:14tap it it just opens this uh the set
- 1:03:17list so in the media folder I have audio
- 1:03:19files PDF GPX files so these are the
- 1:03:22original positions of these files so if
- 1:03:24I double tap on this I can just read the
- 1:03:27PDF file here or if I go to audio files
- 1:03:31recordings not recording sorry imported
- 1:03:34files
- 1:03:35this is the song
- 1:03:37[Music]
- 1:03:39so you can preview all your media files
- 1:03:41here
- 1:03:42uh what else
- 1:03:45you can
- 1:03:47share your files
- 1:03:49all your files including your media
- 1:03:52files
- 1:03:53your recordings everything can be
- 1:03:55shareable using these share buttons
- 1:03:58uh there is this Global purposes this is
- 1:04:01a special file in Key Stage this
- 1:04:04contains all your global settings
- 1:04:07basically all the settings that you do
- 1:04:09here in preferences all your settings
- 1:04:11that all your settings that you do in
- 1:04:14your audio units your media aliases
- 1:04:16everything
- 1:04:18so this is your Global properties you
- 1:04:20you can also share this you can save
- 1:04:22this remotely in a server or or in your
- 1:04:25computer
- 1:04:26and there is this
- 1:04:28new feature before I talk about new
- 1:04:31feature the delete function has changed
- 1:04:34from the previous version now that there
- 1:04:37won't be a delete button here you won't
- 1:04:39see a deletes button here instead you
- 1:04:42swipe left
- 1:04:43and tap deletes
- 1:04:45and this swipe gesture actually works in
- 1:04:47many places in Key Stage so it also
- 1:04:52works on custom translators it also
- 1:04:55works on this midi monitor you swipe to
- 1:04:57remove things so this is a general
- 1:04:59gesture that you use in Key Stage
- 1:05:01okay what other thing create full backup
- 1:05:04file so this is also a new feature in
- 1:05:062.1
- 1:05:10once you create a full backup file it
- 1:05:13contains everything all your media files
- 1:05:16all your song files all your set list
- 1:05:18files there so you can actually create
- 1:05:20set lists in key stage but I I I'm just
- 1:05:23going to skip that in this tutorial
- 1:05:24video
- 1:05:25so this is a convenient new feature to
- 1:05:28save your stuff save your song save your
- 1:05:31settings
- 1:05:33the last thing that I'm going to talk
- 1:05:35about is this Dynamic properties this is
- 1:05:39one of the last features that I added in
- 1:05:412.1
- 1:05:42now Dynamic properties means properties
- 1:05:45that change from section to section
- 1:05:48so Dynamic volumes Dynamic fan Dynamics
- 1:05:50sense these are active by default as you
- 1:05:53know
- 1:05:54for example if I disable Dynamic volume
- 1:05:57and these are stored in songs because
- 1:05:59it's in song properties so you can have
- 1:06:01different Dynamic properties option in
- 1:06:03different songs
- 1:06:04so for this song I disable Dynamic
- 1:06:06volume and now
- 1:06:08if I go to parameters
- 1:06:10the volume slider just went away from
- 1:06:13track parameters
- 1:06:15so I cannot change the volume
- 1:06:16dynamically from part to part I can no
- 1:06:18longer do that and in fact if I go to
- 1:06:20the song mixer these active buttons just
- 1:06:23went away I cannot actively change the I
- 1:06:26cannot actively change the volume from
- 1:06:28part to part my changes here are just
- 1:06:31stored on the track instead and are just
- 1:06:34permanent
- 1:06:35it cannot be dynamically changed from
- 1:06:37section to section they're just stable
- 1:06:39so you can you can change which
- 1:06:42properties are Dynamic which properties
- 1:06:44are not from here and there are lots of
- 1:06:46options here for example a new feature
- 1:06:49is song volume now the song volume can
- 1:06:51be dynamic
- 1:06:52now if you go to the sections here now
- 1:06:56you have a dynamic active song volume
- 1:06:58that can be changed from section to
- 1:07:00section
- 1:07:01so if I go to song mixer here now I have
- 1:07:04another active person on the song mixer
- 1:07:06if I change from section section as you
- 1:07:08can see the volume changes now
- 1:07:10and you can see now it's not active I
- 1:07:14can activate it or reactivate it so you
- 1:07:17can dynamically change the song volume
- 1:07:19from second section to section or you
- 1:07:21can disable it
- 1:07:23or one other example
- 1:07:27um you may want to
- 1:07:29disable Dynamic media units and dynamic
- 1:07:32PDF position
- 1:07:33and dynamic activity so basically let's
- 1:07:36disable everything related to live
- 1:07:38console now your log console is static
- 1:07:41it doesn't change from section to
- 1:07:43section you can have
- 1:07:45a PDF file
- 1:07:47which is available in all sections it
- 1:07:49doesn't change not not even the
- 1:07:51positions
- 1:07:52okay so this is the end of the tutorial
- 1:07:54video I try to demonstrate as many
- 1:07:57features as possible without going too
- 1:07:59much into the details without going too
- 1:08:01much into the complexities of the
- 1:08:04advanced features uh but you will be
- 1:08:07able to find all of them in the manual
- 1:08:09here
- 1:08:09so thanks for watching
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