Hello!
Is there a way to stop a song with parts (not with Endmark) in the middle of a song (e.g. chorus).
I need to stop in the middele of a song on the beginning of a part automatically and continue with a footswitch.
Thanks for advice
You can assign a midi CC to transport start/stop in actions and shortcut, then insert a midi track that send the midi CC at the right time (use virtual midi out for the track and virtual midi in for the action.
Never tried but should work … maybe?!
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Basicall it works. But, if it stops it cannot be continued because the cc-value stays at the top. So the start-cc did not work.
Why don’t you split the song in 2 songs? So you can use stop at marker end then next and play with a foot switch?
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That’s what i have done bevore.
But i need a couple of these “stops” (it’s like a game with pics and video). I do it not for my own use. So i tried to keep it as simple as possible for the user. He struggled sometimes with the setlist and the order of the peaces. All in one peace would be better to handle.
But you are right. It seems to be the only way to split it.
Thanks for suggestions!
Maybe you can try different CC for action stop and action start (there should be separate actions also)
Or play with button/toggle etc type of action.
Otherwise, yes only solution would be to split
Just to understand: you want to start pics / videos occasionally like doing it… I dont know … like handling it as a playlist for your files? So no continous playhead?
Another good idea: flex loop!! @fko56
Insert an empty bar where you want to stop the song and set it as infinite loop (next to loop end) ! Then When you want to restart, action next part! The transport will exit the loop and go ahead.
Tried it works, solved
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No. The Playlist is the sum of all that song parts and a little bit clumsy to handle. This user is not very it-affine. So i tried to make it simpler.
I tried all suggestions from here. But the most stable version is to split the song.
With this solution i struggled with the exact start of the next loop. The “paused” loop ends when ready. Not at the exact time i step on the footswitch. Maybe i do something wrong.
You can select the timing of the exit, on the right of the flex loop button you can select when the switch should happen (end of loop, 1 bar, 1 movement, so on, can’t remember if there is also a immediate option).
I meant it like some list of files one by one, each after each?
I know and have tried all variants without success.
What i need is to stop at the end of the last part (in the middle of the song). Then if i step on the footswitch it has to start exactly after this step at the beginning of the next part. Without any latency.
All tests i have done are not what i need. Exept splitting the song.
Start at startmarker (at 2.1 for example). Midi track from 1.1 to 2.1 sets all midi units to needed configs (Kemper, Mixer, etc). stop at endmarker and go to the next (half) song. Starts with footstep.
@fko56 as asked before, can you talk a bit about your workflow, about your concept? I might have an idea.
My normal workflow is to produce the tracks in cubase and export it as audio-tracks to vst-live.
If i had to stop a song and restart it had to be very exact. So far so good using splitting.
But when i have to split a song in more than two parts (in this rarely special case 12 parts) then it is a bit awkward if i have to change tracks. In this case it happends more times. Depending on the location and the audience.
So i make tracks in Cubase , export audio and had to import the tracks in every part of the splittetd song.
So my thoughts was to do it with parts and loops. So i always have the same song and can change the tracks as necesary without changing any other values.
This works with splitting but needs more time to import the tracks in every single part.
Mybe in a future release loops are able to stop at the end and the (footswitch-) start command start imediately the next part.
I’m sorry, it’s still not clear what is your workflow (way of using tracks, files, instruments). But I have an idea might help (might, because of lack of exact workflow).
Did you know, you can use PART based MediaPlayer?
With that MediaPlayer’s you can start 1xVIDEO and/or 1xAUDIO(stereo).
Say, you don’t put VL in PLAY mode, but stepping to a new PART one-by-one and starting (need to find out if you like this solution) these MediaPlayers as activating the nextPART. Hmmm? 
Hi!
I try to explain it with my minimal english.
6 Tracks with audio exported from cubase.
2 audio-tracks from recorded instruments (cubase)
1 track with lyrics or text (cubase)
The whole song shoud be interrupted at the end of several parts in VL (up to 10x) and restart via footswitch at the beginning of the next part.
The problem is: The Lyrics/Text and recorded instrument-tracks changes very often.
If i split the song (10x ??) i had to replace the changed tracks 10x.
Sometimes it happens over slow internet.
The “new” tracks are produced in studio but played at different locations.
If i could do all stops in one song it would be much easier.
It’s not that big problem but would be nice if there is a more comfortable way.
The whole thing will be used at “party-games” (i hate this kind of “games” 
). And the guys using VL this way are not very expirienced with computers.
ok, what I did now:
assigned:
Transport “START” to the MIDI#CC (footsw, whatever)
Project “NEXT PART” to the same MIDI#CC (the same footsw.)
Pressing that footsw:
- stepping to NEXT PART && starting (that) PART
In case you program the SAME footsw’s low-end or another MIDI#CC or whatever to “STOP”. You can start your song (as normally) with using “START/STOP”
While NextPart && PLAY will be initiated with the footsw. (and again, STOP can also be initiated with another value of the footsw.)
Might this do the job?
I tried this with midi-cc’s and it works with start/stop-cc. But sometimes the midi-switch sends the command twice. Did not know why.
I think this is a switch-issue. But it could be the solution.
thanks for your efforts.
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one additional- You might need a 1st PART that is just a fragment to be able fire “next part” with PLAY message. (say, from PART-0 will step to PART-1…)
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