MIDI with ProTools Part 1

Using MIDI sync from ProTools

The Setup:
Laptop onstage cueing Protools Track
8 Tracks total (track 8 is click)
All 8 tracks come out Analog from the Digi002 to the Venue

The Digi002 spits out the MIDI track to the MidiLink which sends it over CAT5 from the stage to the Light Booth total distance via the cable is approximately 250ft.

The ETC Express Receives the MIDI first from the MidiLink.
The thru on the ETC Express passes the MIDI to the PVP Master computer using a USB to MIDI converter

PVP Master is cueing off videos for the center screen.
It is also cueing off videos on PVP 2 Slave using PVP’s built in Network connection. PVP 2 Slave content is for the left and right side of the center screen that falls on the pipe.

The Vista Spyder switcher is stitching and blending the image in the center. Using a built in effect it is duplicating PVP2 input on the left side of the screen for right part of the center screen.

It hits the Christie DS65 projectors and projects on the set.

Signal Flow:

Vista Spyder Setup:

Stage View of Video:

MIDI Setup:
We built 2 different MIDI track in Protools (1 for lights, 1 for PVP)

Lights use Program Change to recall Preprogramed Cues

PVP uses Midi Note command to fire each video inside a playlist

Protools View:

This gave us the ability not only to sync the lights and video up with the music, but we actually added moving text and builds into the song by adding it to the videos programed for the center screen. By being able to fire them off at Chorus and Verse it added another creative element to the song.

Big thanks to Wes Koetje & Jason Mills

Part 2 we will get a video of it after this weekend.

Countryman E6 improper placement

So Saturday we ran across a new problem. Dan had left his E6 headset in his shirt when it was time to speak. He takes it off his head when he is not using it and places it 2 buttons down his shirt, inside his shirt pointed to his pocket.

This weekend he forgot to pull it out. Surprisingly the sound was hollow, but still audible. Here are 2 quick clips from Saturday and Sunday. They are at the beginning of the service so Robert (FOH Engineer) was still tweaking on the sound once we figured out what was wrong.

Way to go Countryman!

No I didn’t sneak out there and fix it. It is the 1 and only service we tape for the regional campuses and Dan and his ADD might not recover well. It was working, well enough for me to fix up a little in post so we made it work. If it would have been any worse I would have.

What is ironic is we just had a conversation at the Sennheiser RF Academy about how forgiving OMNI directional microphones can be. Case in point.

Do you have the Knack?

I love this video!

Well done my good and faithful believer?

My lifegroup rocked my socks off Thursday, this is my verbal debrief from that night:

The book we are reading is John McCarthur’s “The Vanishing Conscience”

The chapter this week was about sanctification.  We got on a very interesting point of sanctification that drew me to this conclusion
Everyone wants to hear at the end of their life “well done my good and faithful servant”.  This coming from Matthew 25:21 with the Parable of the talents.  The correlation of the Parable to your journey of your spiritual life (sanctification)  This is the charge!! A call to action!!

After all the definition of servant is: One who expresses submission, recognizance, or debt to another. Following hard after Christ.

We start our journey with believing.  Believe def: To accept as true or real

John 3:16

¹⁶“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,^[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. in

If you accept it or believe it as true then we should live it out.

Why is it then we may end up hearing more “well done my good and faithful believer”?

We don’t seem to get past the point of believing into servant hood.

Matthew 7:21,23

²¹“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

²³Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Then my next question is, is believing enough?

So lastly there is the whole:

Faith without works is dead vs. Works without faith is dead also

We blurred the lines tonight saying there is no good works, there is following Christ and living life to what He has called and the opposite; which would be bad works.  Sounds lame, but it sounds lame to call it good works when it is supposed to be just “WHAT” you do.  Normal everyday stuff that makes a difference.  It can be big it can be small, but it is what God has called us to be.

Anyways, probably more of my rambling, but it’s on my heart and I felt the need to share it, at least get it in writing off my mind tonight.

Tech thoughts from Saddleback Worship Conference

The Digi Design Venue platform makes life so EASY to run lots of soundchecks and festival type stages.

• Copy/Paste Channel
• Copy/Paster Mix
• Insert Channel
• Mix on Fader
• Back to Snapshots including Patches Names, ETC.
• Just love it! Super smooth.

Keyboard and any professional audio components should ALL put their stupid $20.00 external power supply inboard and every piece of gear should use IEC connection.

All guitar players want to see other guitar players pedals!!

In-ears and wedges are about half&half of the time

In-ears

• Steve Fee band (all)
• Brenton Brown (all)
• Tim Hughes (all)
• Vickie Beeching (all)
• Merdith (3/5)

Wedges

• Israel Hougton
• Saddleback (worship, youth, praise) (Drums Ears only, Rick 1 ear)
• Paul Baloche

Networking with other churches and tech staff is great!

Networking with Vendors is a great way to increase knowledge of what is out there, what is to come, and how to use your gear.  Thanks Tim Hunten.

Being prepared is key.  Being prepared for the unprepared is priceless.
It was a good time, thanks to Jon Wilson, Greg Baker, MJ Maltbie, and Jacob Matlbie and the rest of the Tech Arts team at Saddleback!

Amazing Subaru video!

Birthday Verse!?! Birthday penance??

So today is my birthday, and if you know me, I’m not a big fan of proclaiming it, either myself, or others.

However this is the email I received this morning with my “Birthday Verse” from my office, a Church.  I’m not sure if I am in trouble or what.

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I must issue a declaimer for Jared’s verse. Though it was automatically selected by BibleVerse, I didn’t have the heart to change it. Please enjoy a little of God’s humor for Jared’s birthday on April 28^th!!

Ephesians 4:28 NIV He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.

You are a child of God, His treasured possession. He created you in His own image. He chose the day for you to be born. He has a plan and a purpose for your life. Cherish your birthverse. BIRTHVERSE consists of 366 verses chosen from the 66 books of the Bible. Each verse correlates the chapter and verse with its month and day.

Nothing personal, Jared – hope you have a blessed b-day!!

Gina <><

For all my friends from Harrisonville, MO

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: ‘California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.’

One week later, The Kansas City Star, a local newspaper in K.C.,Mo, reported the following: After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Harrisonville, Mo , Bubba Brown, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Missouri had already gone wireless.

ht:@joewks

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