Displaying text in Live

[dintymoore]

Howzit - 1st post!

I'm a gigging musician who has used QMidi for gigs for years and also have been using Live. I use Live to trigger a Roland SC-8850 sound module. I do not use audio clips in LIve, only MIDI.

Here's what I've got so far:



I was using QMidi, and I had it so that with every song QMidi displayed text and even scanned charts that would turn the page at the right place in the song. It looked like this:



All I really need to see of Ableton is this, and I'd like the area at the right to be a page of text or a scanned chart::



How can I get Ableton to do what QMidi did and display automatically a page of text with each song? Many of the songs I have are very difficult and I play with singers who will call one of them that I haven't played in years, so I need the charts.

Any ideas how I'd do that?

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Ableton Live 7.0.18/Mac OS 10.4.11/dual 1 GHz PowerPC 1.5 GB RAM/Roland SC-8850/MidiPipe

[kleine]

Hello,
I´m not sure if this suits your workflow but if you right/ctrl click on either a Clip or a scene Start button,
you have a context menu entry called "Edit Info Text" which allows to write into the info field, see my screenshot:



Best,
Christian

[dintymoore]

Thanks kleine. Yes that's sure better than nothing. One thing I like is a basic arrangement list, like how many bars before the lead vocals come in, stuff like that. It helps me direct the song on stage. I have over 350 songs and there's no way I can keep track of them. But I sure would like something that would call up another program that would display jpg's or something like that. I know I want a lot. Did I mention I want it to wax my car too?