TAZZ · TURN 6 · RIG AND LIGHTS

Starting a song sets up your rig and your lights

The scene designer and MIDI cues open from ⚙ in 5a (Song setup), off the performance lane, and use the chart area. ▦ Grid, next to Eyes, adds the light measure grid. Below: what a song sends to your gear on 16 MIDI channels, and how the lights get driven.

6a Song start · MIDI Rig setup: which device is on which channel. Placing cues on bars and beats happens on the live chart (5a → MIDI cues).

Rig · MIDI channels

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Listen lets your rig talk back: a program change from your keyboard can call up the next song, and ch 10 notes can be your tap or follow source. Lighting cues can go out as MIDI too (see 6b).

6b How the lights get driven

You design scenes once in TAZZ. Each connection below receives them. Recommended first build: 1 and 2.

TAZZ · TURN 5 · HOW THE CHART FOLLOWS YOU

Time moves the chart. Your eyes only nudge it.

Pick a source: the metronome, your playing (MIDI or sound), or eyes on devices with a front camera. Whichever you pick, the bar is driven by time. Where you're looking can confirm it or pull it at most one bar, and only after you've held your gaze there. A glance away or ahead never moves it.

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ADD TO YOUR LANE

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Drag ⠿ to reorder. ✕ removes.

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3 4

BAR {{ p5.barNum }}/{{ p5.nBars }}

Mixer

⟲ Loop

▦ Grid

● Create loops

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Strength{{ p5.lm.str }}% Swing{{ p5.lm.sw }}%

⟲ {{ p5.lp.label }} {{ p5.lp.hint }}

❚❚ Chart held Band keeps playing · Space to follow again · Space Space for the quick ending

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Tempo & dynamics {{ p5.tm.srcNote }} Import notation (MusicXML) Snap

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TEMPO · TAP THE LANE TO ADD OR MOVE A POINT

FEEL & SWING · TAP BARS TO SELECT, THEN RIT. (SLOW DOWN), ACCEL. OR A SWING AMOUNT

{{ p5.tm.selCount }} bars selected Swing

Mixer {{ p5.mx.selLabel }}

{{ c.name }} {{ c.read }} dB

Pads The chart keeps running above. Hold a pad 3 s for its sound and effects. Quantize

TAP A PAD, THEN A SOUND · HOLD A PAD 3 s FOR ITS EFFECTS · DRAG TO REARRANGE

＋ Upload

Scene designer Lights follow at

What happens when Every cue in this song, in order. Tap one to edit it.

SOUND · TAP TO HEAR IT

SEND TO

COMMAND

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SOUND

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OUTPUT

EFFECTS · IN THIS ORDER

Preferences

SONG SETUP · OFF STAGE

SCREEN

{{ p5.pf.themeNote }} Show the music as

Lyric size

Chord / tab / notation size

Tap tempo: most it can change per bar of taps

Quick ending (Space Space): play the last

Double-tap to jump: band counts in for

Key & time signature on staff (treble + bass clef)

CLICK TRACK Send as

Click every (the song stays 3/4)

Sound

CONTROL LANE

5b The no-jump rules

5c Preferences (⚙) Set once, off the stage. The lane keeps only what you touch mid-song.

Preferences

SCREEN

CLICK TRACK Send as

Click every (the song's time signature doesn't change)

Sound

CONTROL LANE Button size

Your lane is

TAZZ · TURN 4 · MEASURE CHART

One bracket is one measure. The dots ride over it.

Each [ ] is a bar in the song's time signature. Chords inside it take the width of the beats they last, each marked with its note value. The beat dots sit over every bar and light up in time on the bar being played. The bass lane is built from the UG original, re-timed to your version.

4a Measure chart · Amazing Grace · 3/4 Running at 78. Bar 7 splits A7 (half) and D (quarter); bar 16 has eighths.

Amazing Grace

VERSE 1 · KEY G · 3/4 · 78

BAR {{ p4.barNum }} / 16 · BEAT {{ p4.beatNum }}

BASS LANE

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4b How it's written

A chord on its own fills the whole bar. Add a note value to split it.

time 3/4  key G  tempo 78
[G] [G7] [C] [G]
[G] [Em] [A7:h D:q] [D]
...
[G:q D7:q G:e C:e]
bass [G:q B:q D:q] ...

Add a dot for a dotted note (h. is 3 beats in 3/4). If a bar's values don't add up to its time signature, it's flagged on save rather than guessed.

Band parts: built from the UG original's parts, then re-timed bar by bar to your version. Bars where your chords differ from the original are marked for you to check.

TAZZ · TURN 2 · THE CX CONCEPT

You lead. The band waits to be invited.

One live session, two screens. Step the performer through the start of a song: loaded, you establish the feel, the band enters on the downbeat. The drummer beside you sees the same position on their own screen, with their own click and mix.

2a Performer · Jeff, piano + vocals

Amazing Grace

3/4 · SAVED G · 78

Session · Sam joined

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2b Same session · Sam, drums

Sam · Drums

with Jeff · Amazing Grace

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NEXT CUE {{ p2.cue }}

TIMING LEADER{{ p2.leaderText }}

SHARED · EVERYONE Song, key {{ p2.keyPlaying }}, 3/4, tempo, where beat one is, bar position, cues

MINE · ONLY SAM Sections + cues view, rim click in 8ths, my mix

MY MIX · ONLY I HEAR THIS

Click goes to my headphones only, never the PA. Jeff's real piano and voice reach me through the mixer's monitor feed; joining the session doesn't carry their audio.

2c Test on real gear first

The screens shouldn't promise these until they've been tried on your iPad and interface:

MIDI straight into an iPadSafari on iPad doesn't support Web MIDI. Mic listening works; a keyboard may need a bridge through the stage computer.

Click right, band leftBrowsers differ on picking audio outputs. Separate headphone and PA routing has to be proven per device.

Bluetooth for a live clickFine for rehearsal. Too much delay for a drummer's click on stage; wired is the dependable path.

TAZZ · TURN 1 · iPAD LANDSCAPE

Three ways to hold the chart

Same song, same controls. They differ in where the band and click live, and in whether the chords sit over the lyrics or beside them. Transpose, band toggles, role and tap tempo work in all three.

1a Rail Band as one-tap buttons on a thin rail. Chart gets almost the whole screen. Chords over lyrics.

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YOU

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Sunday set

Amazing Grace

John Newton · public domain

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BPM{{ bpm }}

TIME3/4

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MIDI · following you

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1b Drawer open The rail pulled out: role, band, presets, tempo source, click and count-off. Chart shrinks, chord map on top.

TAZZ

YOU PLAY

AI BAND · {{ bandOnCount }} ON

★ Save as favorite

Use on all songs

TEMPO FROM

CLICK & COUNT-OFF

Click goes toRight channel only

Count-off1 bar · "1, 2, 1-2-3"

Click soundWoodblock

Amazing Grace

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1c Side by side, on stage Chords and lyrics in parallel, one row per line. It follows where you are, with a transport bar for count-off and click.

Amazing Grace

KEY {{ key }} · {{ trLabel }}

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COUNT-OFF · 1 BAR

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BAR 7 · VERSE 1

Listening · mic

CLICK → R