OK. One more time. You seem to have an idea of what you need to do, but you’re not letting the instructions get through to you. So these will be explicit and repetitive. You need to create the MIDI command in OnSong, using this number scheme:
MIDI: MSB.LSB:Song number. MSB is how many times to add 128 to the folder number. In my case its zero, because I have less than 128 folders. I’ve been told there is a BB limit of 100, but I have not test that. LSB is the position of your folder on your Beat Buddy minus 1. So, in this case, the song is in the second folder in my Beat Buddy. Song number is the song’s position within that folder, also minus 1. This song, is the first song in my second folder. Again the command is "MIDI: [one space after the colon]MSB[this will be zero].LSB[this is the folder position on the BB minus 1]:song number[song position minus 1]. There is a space after the first colon, no space after the period, and no space after the second colon.
Here is the top of my folder list in Beat Buddy Manager:
[ATTACH=full]7100[/ATTACH]
IMPORTANT: Once I assigned MIDI numbers, I can’t move folders around anymore, or the numbers wont work. Let’s just look at the first 3 Folder here. Phil’s Old Loose-Leaf Songbook is my first folder. It gets an MSB of 0, and since its the first folder, the LSB is also 0. MIDI counts from 0 to 127.
Here is a partial list of the songs in the first folder:
[ATTACH=full]7101[/ATTACH]
My Blank Song is first. So, it’s song position value is 0. 3AM is 2nd; it’s song position value is 1. Allison is third, it’s song position is 2.
So, the midi commands in OnSong for these 3 songs would be:
For Blank - MIDI: 0.0:0
3 AM - MIDI: 0.0:1
Allison - MIDI 0.0:2
Bus Stop is twelfth on the list. It’s command is MIDI: 0.0:11
Again, once I assign these values in OnSong, I cannot move the folders. I also cannot add songs anywhere above songs that have already been assigned values. I could add songs to the bottom of the list in the folder.
Getting back to the folders. Blues would have MSB and LSB of 0 and 1. So, it’s MIDI commands look like this:
MIDI: 0.1:[Song position number]
For Blues 2, it’s MIDI: 0.2:[Song position number]
As to this idea:
I set up my set list in OnSong (that has been assigned MIDI numbers) and create a folder in BeatBuddy Manager as “Set List” with the same songs listed and this thing should work?
The beauty of OnSong is that as long as the numbers are in place for the songs, you do not need to create a separate set list on BB. You create the set list within OnSong, and it can pull from any of your BB folders. I can have a set list created in OnSong that pulls some songs from Phil’s Old Loose-Leaf Songbook, some from Blues 2, some from 80’s Rock and Pop K-R, etc.
Your final question:
My next question is this…does the set list in Beatbuddy have to have MIDI for each song as well? Thank you for helping me!!
Answer: A - Do not make a set list in Beat Buddy. B - there is no where to put MIDI in your song is Beat Buddy. We had a firmware that was attempting to do this, but Singular did away with that idea, at least temporarily. Maybe, in the future, we will be able to do that, at which time we would no longer be locked into keeping our songs stuck in the order we numbered them. However, for now, that is the way we have to do things to get OnSong to find songs and pull them up.
You’re the best teacher!