geraldbiggs | Answers

Ah, I see the blue-hand thing is what locks ableton to a "top 8" paradigm. Interesting that it would mean max4live knobs are out of sequence.

Ok! I figured out the quirk! It's a good one - solution below In my screen shot - I've created 3 dials from left to right. Initially they all worked in order. as live.dial, live.dial[1], live.dial[2]...