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Script led feedback with modifier

Tracks is a list and we refer to an item in the list with index numbers where the first item in the list has index 0, like this: Tracks[0] You already knew this, I think, because you’re using it in your script by storing that index in a modifier: Tracks[modifier] What you might not have […]

error message meaning

Ableton blocks UI to UI methods. So in your case, the listener ‘songs visible tracks has changed’ is a UI based event and your action is setting the color index of the track. Ableton is blocking this with the ‘defer’ message. You would need to change the listener to an even coming from the midi […]

[SOLVED] Defer your response, workarounds?

@fatphil, I’m not sure what happened to your message which you posted (below), if you purposefully took it down please let me know. This is a possible solution to the ‘defer’ problem: fatphil said: I finally figured it out. I was previously using self.schedule_message incorrectly I looked at the decompiled Framework ControlSurface script and found […]

Should Pads have MIDI Message Settings?

Hey, The ‘Pads’ group shouldn’t have MIDI settings. It may be the case that the template you have downloaded was built in using an earlier version of CSS (<2.8) and had a bug. In the ‘On Remotify’ section of the Control Surface Studio app, there is a P32DJ controller template which you can import. Try […]

error message meaning

This 2021 answer from the Remotify admin might help you out. Based on that answer, here’s what might be a work-around: – Use the Reaction with the “Visible Tracks has changed” Listener to save an index to a Modifier. – Create a second Reaction that Listens to that Modifier being updated; which then changes the […]