Actions

MIDI actions

Trigger different actions when receiving a MIDI signal.

In the settings you can add different actions that is triggered when receiving a MIDI in signal. You can also click on exising actions to trigger them. Here you will also see any slide MIDI actions.

# Editing actions

When creating or editing an action you have to choose a MIDI controller input. Also FreeShow has some default values for all of the actions, but you can set your own values by disabling the "Use default values" switch.

Here is a short summary of all the different actions:

# Show actions (Channel 1)

# Next slide

This is the same as pressing the arrow right key on the keyboard. This will go to the next slide if a show is outputted, or play the first slide if a show is selected.

# Previous slide

This is the same as pressing the arrow left key on the keyboard. This will go to the previous slide if a show is outputted, or play the last slide if a show is selected.

# Next show

This is the same as pressing the arrow down key on the keyboard. This will go to the next element in the selected project.

# Previous show

This is the same as pressing the arrow up key on the keyboard. This will go to the previous element in the selected project.

# Go to group

This will trigger a group in the selected show or if the group is selected it will play the next same group in the show.

# Clear actions (Channel 3)

These actions will clear the selected layers:

• Clear all
• Clear background
• Clear slide
• Clear overlays
• Clear audio
• Clear next slide timer

# Style actions (Channel 4)

# Change output style

Change the style of the output. Click here to read about styles.

# Select by index actions (Channel 5)

The following actions will select an element using the velocity value as the index. This will trigger the first if no velocity is set.

• "Project"
• "Project item" in active project
• "Slide" in outputted or active show