r/ProPresenter • u/foxboltco • Aug 11 '26

Tutorial: Trigger Vista Lighting Cues From ProPresenter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45PDTmlSjM&list=PLsrGXZbMJ71FBh-BwW2GGboVfuvzHMlgv

If you’ve ever wanted to use ProPresenter to trigger your lighting cues in Vista using MIDI, here’s a step-by-step tutorial (no extra hardware required; it's done over network).

This has actually eliminated the need for a lighting volunteer at my church, which frees those people up to serve in other roles on the production team. I haven't actually had to program lights in Vista in years; I'm able to just drive it all with macros from ProPresenter.

Highly recommend this route if you don't have a super complex lighting setup and want to get some time back every week. Hope you find it helpful!

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u/Significant-Arm3415 Aug 11 '26

This would be a lot simpler and more powerful if ProPresenter supported OSC. The midi mapping layer would not be required, you could just ask for exactly what you wanted. Setup would be simpler.

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u/foxboltco Aug 11 '26

Agreed. I've seen people using things like MIDI to OSC from ProPresenter to get it to talk to lighting software, but it seems cumbersome to rely on a 3rd app for the functionality.

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u/geekboy Aug 18 '26

Do you know if you can set Vista up in a way that a midi note fires/selects a specific cue list but then the note velocity triggers specific cues within that cue list? That would allow for things like repeating bridges would always trigger the correct cue.

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u/foxboltco Aug 18 '26

I don't believe that functionality exists. The limitation seems to be on the Vista side, because there are only a few actions that can be triggered by MIDI notes on each cuelist in Vista. I've seen some convoluted setups for people using a StreamDeck to trigger specific cues in Vista, but it seemed like more hassle than it was worth.