Numbering the folders and the songs inside is a great idea. I can see where this saves a lot of time down the road trying to guess their exact position to get the number you need in the midi command. But my gosh that initial process must have taken you hours to complete!!! I’m going to do it, but I’m already dreading it, lol.
Great well explained video. I’m just fighting my way through this now. I have noticed that in my version of onsong which is the latest one, that the weird program numbering now starts at 1 vice 0. Should I therefore start my folders at 1. I’m very new to trying to make this work. Thanx so much.
Thanks Craig! In OnSong2022 go to Utilities-Settings-Midi Settings. Scroll to the bottom and make sure the One-Based Index button is OFF. That should fix it.
Open the song editor in OnSong and under your title add a line Tempo:100 as an example. Alternatively, set the tempo using the metronome symbol in the live bar at the bottom right of your song. In Settings-Midi Settings-Sync, make sure Tempo is set to all channels or whatever channel you BeatBuddy is receiving midi on. That will change the tempo.
@@kountryfrydmusic I can't get my Onsong to control the program change to select the BB patch. Any ideas? I am using Bluetooth and controlling other things. Example wanting to select folder 22 song 9. MIDI Event - Program - 9, MSB-0, LSB-22. It does not change on BB????
@@kountryfrydmusic yes. I figured it out. I was sending cc106/107 first then the PC. As soon as I removed that it worked as expected. I set my tempo using Tempo under MIDI events. Thanks for the follow up👍
Great video and tips. One question. I'm a new OnSong subscriber and am using PDF transcripts so there is no "long press" on the song title to bring up the "MIDI events" menu. I can only get to the "MIDI triggers" menu. Any suggestions?
Hi Terry. Thanks for the comment. I don’t use pdfs but I believe you can access the midi events dialogue by opening the song editor, click on the menu list, select edit metadata and the click on send. Let me know if that works for you.
Hi Paula. I just added all my existing root songs into folders. I guess it depends how many songs you have but I only had around 300 at the time and it was just a matter of creating new folders and the dragging the songs into them in the Manager. I grouped them alphabetically A-H and L-Z. BeatBuddy limit is 99 songs per folder. Hope that helps.
Numbering the folders and the songs inside is a great idea. I can see where this saves a lot of time down the road trying to guess their exact position to get the number you need in the midi command. But my gosh that initial process must have taken you hours to complete!!! I’m going to do it, but I’m already dreading it, lol.
One correction to the video. The MSB value will be more that 0 if you have more than 127 folders in your library.
Great well explained video. I’m just fighting my way through this now. I have noticed that in my version of onsong which is the latest one, that the weird program numbering now starts at 1 vice 0. Should I therefore start my folders at 1. I’m very new to trying to make this work. Thanx so much.
Thanks Craig! In OnSong2022 go to Utilities-Settings-Midi Settings. Scroll to the bottom and make sure the One-Based Index button is OFF. That should fix it.
@@kountryfrydmusic awesome. I need you to hang out in my basement!
@@craiggardner6847 🤣
Is there a way to control the tempo? Sometimes I use the same patch for multiple songs and need to change tempo :)
Open the song editor in OnSong and under your title add a line Tempo:100 as an example. Alternatively, set the tempo using the metronome symbol in the live bar at the bottom right of your song. In Settings-Midi Settings-Sync, make sure Tempo is set to all channels or whatever channel you BeatBuddy is receiving midi on. That will change the tempo.
@@kountryfrydmusic I can't get my Onsong to control the program change to select the BB patch. Any ideas? I am using Bluetooth and controlling other things. Example wanting to select folder 22 song 9. MIDI Event - Program - 9, MSB-0, LSB-22. It does not change on BB????
@@randyjones9768 Is the midi in channel on your BB set to receive on the same channel you are sending the command from in OnSong?
@@kountryfrydmusic yes. I figured it out. I was sending cc106/107 first then the PC. As soon as I removed that it worked as expected. I set my tempo using Tempo under MIDI events. Thanks for the follow up👍
what about the midi configuration on beatbuddy?
Please check out the Luis Lugo pdf file in the description. It contains that information.
When I try to access the file that explains setup, it says it is no longer available on Google drive.
@@TGRizzle Sorry Tim. I’ve added a new link. Let me know if it doesn’t work.
Great video and tips. One question. I'm a new OnSong subscriber and am using PDF transcripts so there is no "long press" on the song title to bring up the "MIDI events" menu. I can only get to the "MIDI triggers" menu. Any suggestions?
Hi Terry. Thanks for the comment. I don’t use pdfs but I believe you can access the midi events dialogue by opening the song editor, click on the menu list, select edit metadata and the click on send. Let me know if that works for you.
@@kountryfrydmusic Yes that did work and thanks again.
I do have a question. What if the song is not in a folder? What if it’s in the root position?
Hi Paula. I just added all my existing root songs into folders. I guess it depends how many songs you have but I only had around 300 at the time and it was just a matter of creating new folders and the dragging the songs into them in the Manager. I grouped them alphabetically A-H and L-Z. BeatBuddy limit is 99 songs per folder. Hope that helps.