Originally Posted By: Simon - PG Music
If you set your Melody channel to output to the IAC device, you can use the Piano Roll in BB to enter in something like a Control Change or Program Change - or even just input some notes


I need to learn how to do that sort of MIDI editing.

Program changes could work for scene cues. Ideally, I'd want to send arbitrary text messages, which I guess would be done via SysEx (?) so I could have BIAB come straight out and tell Hue, "light 5 - hue FFCCCC - brightness 55 - saturation 100 - transitiontime 3" or "scene - tequila sunset".

Controlling Hue lights via HTTP really limits the responsiveness, though, so it's not like I could get 10 lights dancing in perfect sync to 10 different song tracks; the system overloads pretty quickly and winds up lagging the music. (This sort of thing can be done at a lower level using the Zigbee protocol, bypassing the bridge and communicating directlly with the lamps, but that is completely beyond me.)

So, in my little home setup, a separate lighting track in BIAB would really have to be composed, as opposed to having the lights automatically track the music (which works kind of nicely in my example only because the material is so slow and un-rhythmic.)

I would really really like a way to put little blue sticky notes on the chord sheet with my special text messages, how unrealistic is that?