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PowerPoint MIDI Presenter Add-on

A simple PowerPoint Add-On to change slides based on MIDI CC events

The primary goal of this add-on is to allow a musician or engineer control a set using standard footpedal controllers.

PowerPoint has only 2 levels of hiearchy:

Section
Slide

Therefore each slide is given a tag with a key that represents its hierachy at 3 levels:

Song, analagous to Section
Part Tag or Part such as Verse, Chorus, Bridge or other user defined tag
Sort Order, representing the order within a Part
In addition, each slide tag configuration also supports a MIDI CC number

A valid presentation consists of:

Sections representing a single song
Slides representing any part within a song or PPT Section
Slides sharing a matching part tag can contain more than one slide and can have the same MIDI command. A MIDI event for a part will iterate over any slide by slide or sort order, cycling back to the begining if no more slides within a part is found

This is in an early prototype stage with MIDI polling and slide tagging but no event assignments. Currently an Arturia MiniLab is being used as a test controller for this application

The following has to be done to leave prototype:

A presentation manager to
- Keep each slide's SlideConfiguration tag in sync with its parent Song/Section
- Track conflicting CC assignments within the same song but different parts
Ribbon Bar Global Presentation Settings for
- MIDI channel and device assignment
- Section and Slide navigation
Task Pane for active slide MIDI settings
Song Part UI Tag Editor
Ribbon Bar Global setting to toggle the add-in events on or off so that new presentations are not automatically interrogated or modified

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