How to display Ableton track colors on MIDI controller pads?
Hi,
Great to see 2.6 out of beta, thanks for keeping up the development!
Now with the new reactions working, is it possible to send the color of the track in Ableton to a controller RGB pad? I mean, pick up the color from Ableton, not write down manually a matching velocity value.
What I want to do is lay out all the tracks on my controller pads with their colors and then hit the pad to select the track. It is MUCH easier to select the right track when I can see the color. Counting tracks to find the right one from a bunch of identically colored ones is not really useful.
If it is possible now, I’d really appreciate some direction on how to do it… I’ve tried finding the functionality myself, but failed :-/
Cheers!
FYI I have set up the controller RBG LED’s to ‘Value to Colour Mode’
Hi John,
Thanks for your response, excuse the delay in getting back to you while I got the information from Yaeltex.
There response was as follows:
“The color of all the RGB LEDs in Yaeltex controllers can be remotely controlled with the Value to color feature.
In the buttons, you just have to configure their feedback as Value to color and receive feedback messages with the same note and midi channel. The velocity of these messages will control the LED’s colors based on Yaeltex’s color table.”
I asked them about sysex but and answer to that was not formulated in their response – judging by my understanding though I don’t think it is relvevant.
I have attached the velocity values from Yaeltex below.
First thing to do would be to find out what the Yaeltex controller requires for lighting its LEDs. I’m sure they would tell you if you ask them 🙂
Hello Folks,
I am trying to get this to work and having no luck – truth be told I am way out of my depth. I have read through the Tutorial half a dozen times and have read up and down this whole post two or three times too.
My controler is Yaeltex Turn – I am not sure if this is Sysex or not (Don’t really know what this means)
I am trying to get the RGB Buttons to function like the pads do in Ableton push
1. Reflecting the colour state of Live in the Midi Controller
2. As I navigate the session box around Ableton I want the colours to move with it.
I wanted to test just one clip to see if it could work but had no luck – So far I
1. dragged the ‘custom_track_colours.json’ into a new controller script.
2. Changed the ‘Value to Set’ number to 1 (Red on my controller)
3. Changed the ‘Controller Input’ to Button 1
4. Uploaded this to Ableton
5. Changed the Clip colour of clip 1 to Red (14)
Nothing happened, I also note that there is no ‘default’ colour if I choose another colour, this says to me that Ableton and CSS are not set up to communicate correctly.
Tip: If you need to convert a Hex string to Dec: use ChatGPT
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