M-LIVE Merish Plus Reference Manual - page 2
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Contents
On the stars’ stage
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Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Songs & Memories
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Merish requires at least one memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Transferring songs to the memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Updating Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Formats & Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Pre-August 2010 M-Live Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Post-August 2010 M-Live Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Optimizing pre-August 2010 M-Live MIDI files for Merish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Files produced by third parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Merish and meta events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Display & Control Maps
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The Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Current Song & Next Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Function Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Connector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Operating functions
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Selecting and performing a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Playing controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Access to songs in the Artist & Genre lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Finding immediately with an A/Z search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
NEXT SONG: setting the next song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
GO TO: passing from the Current Song to the Next Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
GO TO: Next Song with mixing in sync and with key change . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Changing bpm and key of the Next Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Jumping “on-the-fly” to another song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
with the PLAY button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
with the GO TO button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
GO TO: jumping between markers in the same song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
GO TO: jumping to a specific marker of the Next Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
GO TO: jumps with songs with no markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
LOOP: repetition ad libitum of the same marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Playlist
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Creating and naming a Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Adding a song to a Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Playing a Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23