How do I trigger an entire cue row using MIDI/Mackie?

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#1

I’m currently setting up a live performance setup with Ardour and I need to be able to simultaneously trigger a song’s backing track and the midi for its kick drum, so that the sidechain compressor can work for the instruments that are not in the backing track but that instead I’m performing on a keyboard.

I found out you can trigger rows with F1-F16, so I wrote a script to convert MIDI messages from my controller into those key presses, but surely there has to be a less janky, more Ardour-native way to do this, right?

#2

F1-F8 are bound to the actions “Cue/trigger-cue-N” (where N varies between 0 and 7). If you’re writing your own MIDI binding map or using custom/user keys with Mackie, you can just bind a button to the access_action() function, with those action names as the argument.

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