How to disply text with Ableton?

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I'm doing a major revamp of the MIDI setup I use for gigs. I recently added color and it looks like so:

color.jpg


Here's the problem. I was using QMidi, and it will display text along with each song. I can even make it display the scanned charts with each song and the pages turn at the right time with the music. It looks like this on QMidi:
CHARTSONQMIDI.jpg


So how do I do that on Ableton? I can "shrink" Ableton down and this is all I really need to see at gigs:

SMALLERLIVE.jpg


So I could use the rest of the screen on the right to display text. How do I do that? I need to have it so that the text automatically is displayed with each song I select on Ableton, I don't have time to scroll through another program on stage.

I need this also because I do some pretty hard songs that have lots of chords, and I work with a number of chick singers. They'll call a tune I haven't played in years so I need the charts for those.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
Possible Solution

I don't know if this might be a valid solution, but I have written an application in Max-MSP that might help your specific situation. It's an app I wrote for musical directors/conductors using Ableton for show playback. I apologize if this appears to be spam as I certainly don't mean to. But I thought this might might be a legitimate solution. You can read all about it and see a demo video at www.mat4live.com.

mike@mat4live.com
 
Thanks Mike.

What I am trying to do is:

When I call up a song a page of text appears automatically.

I don't know if I missed something but it seems like your program has nothing to do with that.

Did I miss something?
 
OK. I misunderstood. When you showed the image of Live being shrunk down to only see the names of the 'scenes' I thought 'THAT' is what you wanted to see. My program provides an interface so the operator only sees the scenes as hotkeys. When the next song is selected, the controller is re-mapped so that songs scenes can be triggered with hotkeys. Sorry about that. However, it does give me an idea for an app. I could probably write you an app that would display and image or text file based on which scene in Ableton is being played. If interested, why don't you contact me off-line so we can discuss details.

Mike@mat4live.com
www.mat4live.com
 
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