lunartidesmusic Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 I doubt anyone will see this among the tons of posts about 2.8, but here is my question- There is a band that I like and admire, that seems to be using the Helix to start/stop all their backing tracks. The guitar player has his helix floor on the ground with a laptop next to it, but he's also running his helix into an amp setup behind him. He some how manages to use the helix, to start/stop his sessions that have backing tracks + it sends a click track of sorts to their drummer. I feel like he has cracked the code on this device in a way I can't even comprehend. So I was wondering if anyone could point me in a good direction to a video or thread, where it may break down how to do that with the helix? It would open a lot of doors for me, being in a 3 person band, to be able to add some more stuff going on, and I also think it would be nice to start playing to tempo mapped tracks (even if me the drummer is the only one who gets to hear the click.) Anyways, for those wondering who the band is, they are called Spotlights, and have some live footage floating around on YouTube, but if you watch them you can see how he triggers the stuff all from his helix and Laptop and it doesn't look like they have a crazy expensive rack of gear with a lot of devices to make this happen. Thanks for anyone who is reading this far, and hopefully someone can point me in a good direction. Thanks Helix users! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craiganderton Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 Can you tell what is playing the backing tracks? With some programs, almost anything (included transport controls) can be assigned to MIDI learn, and be triggered by pretty much any MIDI command. I'll look into this a little further when I'm back in the studio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunartidesmusic Posted July 20, 2019 Author Share Posted July 20, 2019 He's just sending midi into his laptop I guess, using a daw of some sort, I can't tell but it looks like Reaper or Studio One. I'm just trying to find out if there is any step by step information to get started at least with that, because I understand the concept of it, but am having trouble just figuring out how to piece it together step by step as far as making the helix the main control for the daw / tracks / click as well as still be a vocal and guitar fx unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiFromBRC Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 I'm pretty excited about the hotkey functions. Once I've had a chance to play around with it I'm looking forward to using it with GP7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonSpiegel Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 You need to take a look at the MMC (Midi Machine Control) commands in COMMAND CENTER. These are the equivalent commands as the TRANSPORT CONTROLS you see on some keyboards. i.e. Record, Stop, Play, etc. A while ago, as an experiment I set up the Helix to run Reaper over USB. As long as the DAW is listening, it's pretty simple to get this working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunartidesmusic Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 I've been researching the MMC stuff, and I think I've figured out in my daw how to start and stop sessions. Now it's just a matter of figuring out how to make the helix move through the sessions or set list within a daw or some way to move through a set list easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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