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 This guide will show you how to set up QLab to play a single audio file each time a button is pressed. This guide will show you how to set up QLab to play a single audio file each time a button is pressed.
  
-You could use the [[products:​the_big_button|The Big Button]] or [[products:​the_button|The Button]] for this, or any of the our other products with multiple buttons if you wanted to expand this to multiple sounds.+You could use [[products:​the_big_button|The Big Button]] or [[products:​the_button|The Button]] for this, or any of the our other products with multiple buttons if you wanted to expand this to multiple sounds.
  
  
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 You'll need to load the audio file into QLab. You'll need to load the audio file into QLab.
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-If you are not in **Edit** mode click the Edit button in the bottom left corner and the click on your audio file to show the bottom pane of the window and click on the **Triggers** tab.+If you are not in **Edit** mode click the Edit button in the bottom left corner and the click on your audio file to show the bottom pane of the window and then click on the **Triggers** tab.
  
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-{{:​usage:​qlab-play-single-file-05.png?​direct&​600|}}+Click the checkbox for **MIDI Trigger** to enable it and make sure **Note On** is selected in the drop down menu next to the checkbox.
  
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-{{:​usage:​qlab-play-single-file-08.png?​direct&​600|}}+Click on the **Capture** button and get ready to press...
  
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 +When you see **Waiting for MIDI...** you can press the button on the device. 
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 +After you press the button it should show the **Note** and **Velocity** sent from the device. 
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 +//(Note: If this doesn'​t work we may need to check that the device is showing up properly in QLab. We'll add another guide for that.)// 
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 +You can now change from **Edit** mode to **Show** mode using the buttons in the lower left corner. 
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 +Typically with a cue list you would need to highlight an item in the list to start things... 
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 +But since we've created a trigger for this specific file you can just press the button to play the audio and you don't need to highlight the file first. 
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 +You are all set! Press the button to play the sound. ​
  
-{{:​usage:​qlab-play-single-file-10.png?​direct&​600|}}+The advantage of using a device programmed for MIDI is that QLab does not need to be the frontmost application to capture keystrokes from a computer keyboard. As long as QLab is running (and configured) it will play the sound.
  
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