MIdi Controls and a Dynamic Marker

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In my current workflow, I use Transcribe!. I am trying to find a reasonable transition to Capo where my most used actions in T! are replicated in Capo.
Here is where I am stuck, it includes the assignable midi commands, and what I can only describe as a dynamic marker.
While I am transcribing, I have an audio file with the measures and beats marked out. (Capo seems to do a good job of this automatically, big plus). I set my “cursor” at a part I want to start working on. This creates a temporary “marker”. I use 8 buttons on a midi foot controllers for the following actions.

  • Button 1 Down: Return to marker and Play, Button 1 up: Pause Playback
  • Button 2: Resume Play from where playback cursor is located.
  • Btns 3,4,5,6: Next/Prev - Beat/Measure
  • Btns 7,8: Speed +/-

I think you get the idea. Some of these are covered but not others.
I use a “sustain” pedal for button 1, and it is the most used button in my work, and for me the most important.

Thoughts?

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Let me try and improve this situation for you, at least a little bit.

First off, you want to enable the Transcription Playhead to get your dynamic marker functionality. On the Mac, you can toggle this using ⌘T (or assign a MIDI command to it.) Each time you press the play button, it will start from wherever the Transcription Playhead is located.

Unfortunately, I don’t think you’ll be able to execute these actions right now exactly as you have them configured[1]. That’s why I’m (very slowly, carefully) overhauling of this important aspect of Capo’s feature set. When I (eventually) get done with this, you should be able to set it up how you describe above.

  1. Long story short: Capo’s current MIDI implementation is very simple. It ignores message values, so the sustain pedal on/off won’t get treated differently from one another. :weary: ↩︎

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Thank you, I will enable the Transcription Playhead for now, I look forward to the other updates.
Fred

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