Hi,
This is a duplicate of feature request I made in the main thread.
Things I think autopilot should be able to do or control:
- All the things you can do with MIDI.
- Transition to a specific part at any time
- Fill at any time, not just the whole bar
- Pause the beat, but continue with the song
- control intro, outro, stop without outro
- Change tempo during a song
- Change time signature
- Accents
- Volume
- Basically, all the BB controlling functionality that MIDI currently provides
- Custom Labels for parts, Color selection for parts
- A timeline where we can just click what above action we want, and where.
- Export just the autopilot info, instead of the entire song to avoid running into any licensing issues with a song.
- Trigger outbound MIDI to a channel for controlling external devices though autopilot.
- EDIT: Hitting “Fill” shouldn’t restart a part and BB2 should be able to maintain the defined length of a song. If the song is 80 bars long, then it should remain 80 bars long, even if a fill or transition is hit.
My current workflow to make autopilot work in a DAW does the above exactly. I just send BB MIDI to the BB and I can play an entire song without a problem. I have a timeline where I just trigger the MIDI where I want and everything works great. With the promise of AutoPilot in the BB, I’d hope we’d be able to do the same thing and avoid having to bring a computer everywhere to use the BB.
As I mentioned in the other thread, the BB has a MIDI engine capable of sending and receiving MIDI that can already do everything autopilot needs. Seems like you just need a mechanism to schedule and fire off MIDI in time. EDIT: Something like this would also ensure that the song length remains consistent since the actions are happening at a defined “time” vs just running parts. This allows for “fills” and other part changes to happen without changing the length of a song.
Thanks