Welcome to the BEYOND Performer Console. What originally started as a passion project of our own Lyra Letourneau, has now turned into a larger project due to significant interest from the community. This custom laid out midi controller has been designed from scratch to look and feel like a console designed directly for BEYOND. Utilizing multiple Grids, fader, and encoder banks. And 4 layers deep of control.

Not only does this controller have familiar functions that you would normally use on your standard midi controllers, this controller comes with multiple “plugin” functions built in enabling incredibly easy delay effects, color picking tools, and built in FX that you have always wanted to add to your show but weren’t sure just how. Bundled together in a progressive format, allowing beginners and experts alike to feel at home and learn as they go.

And one of the best parts is that it’s fundamentally just a midi controller. So, if you ever want to add your own macros, functions and tools to the controller you can do so just as you would with any midi device. Or if one function isn’t your jam, just swap it for something else! This simple fact of it being a midi controller also allows us to create future mappings as software evolves extending the life of this unit!

While the BEYOND Performer Console can work with any setup, it is designed around a baseline live control install, which enables a number of “plugins”. The simplest option is to use the full zipped up install provided below.

Link to install Zip

With the zip folder, just extract it to your C Drive, and run the BEYOND.exe. You can also right click on it and send to desktop to create a desktop shortcut. With that you just need to plug in the controller, run that version, and it will work.

You may be required to go to the midi settings window, and select the controller from the list, and load the midi config file like you would any midi controller if it doesn’t automatically connect. You can also load each thing that makes it special separately, and pick and choose as you desire. And we will go over each special item below and discuss the reasons why they are needed or what makes them special, this includes:

• A Midi Map for the controller
• A Zone file template to build from
• A Workspace File

All of which will be downloadable on this page, and in the install.

Note: A powerful computer or laptop is recommended for all features and plugins to run smoothly but it’s not required, the biggest thing with this is for the color channels to update the workspace previews live, “preview all cues” needs to be enabled, with this off the controller can work with most standard show computers just fine.