Midi Communication with Linux Show Player

[drjswalker]

G'day All,

I'm a magician and have been using Linux Show Player (LiSP) for a few years as a Cue player and QLC+ for lighting but would like to try something a little harder in the form of tying a sound effect and a lighting effect together. I would like to play the sound effect (about 1-2s long) and just after (0.2s) have a light flash. I would like to use LiSP for the sound effect and have it send a MIDI cue/message to QLC+ to flash the light. I have each Application responding to a MIDI controller just fine. The part I'm having trouble with, is when I remove the controller from the equation and try to connect the LiSP MIDI message output to qlc+. I get an LiSP output config option that looks like "qlcplus:QLC 128:0" in the MIDI devices output config box. But I don't see anything for LiSP in the MIDI segment of the QLC+ INS/OUTS panel, Just two entries labeled inputs(?) and an entry labeled "Midi through port-0". When it comes to settting the button widget properties in the virtual desk, the qlc+ autodetect sees nothing.

I am Setting the MIDI communication in Universe 4 and DMX out in Universe 1, I am running the QLC+ virtual console when I test. I am setting the message parameters in the MIDI cue/message (Channel 13, note 6, Note on).

I am a midi very newbie but I have managed to get both Applications to respond independently to my Nanokontrol2 and do something useful. I think the problem is configuring the MIDI connection details between the two but I don't really know. I'll cross post this to a LiSP group as well. I'm using Linux Mint Victoria and a recent version of Pipewire that I can confirm is working well. This may all be very simple but I just don't know enough

Could someone please help connect these two so I can use the great MIDI messaging of LiSP to drive a QLC+ virtual console button and make an appearance on the stage truly magical.


John Walker

[janosvitok]

For midi, either you need to loop actual physical connectors (i.e. connect cable between an output and an input), or use software loopback.
I don't know what to use, try google.

It seems that nightly build of LiSP can send OSC messages as well. You may try that if you don't succeed with MIDI. https://github.com/FrancescoCeruti/linu ... 1595731922

[GGGss]

Since you are making the move and reconfigure everything ... you realise that QLC+ also can play sounds? So you could leave the LiSP path and switch completely to QLC+?