How to display Ableton track colors on MIDI controller pads?

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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!

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dok.ryconn 1 Comment

The forum won’t allow .py file extension uploads but I’ve attached my CSS script file (.json). I just opened the .py script file in a text editor from the MIDI Remote Scripts folder where CSS installs the script.: C:ProgramDataAbletonLive 11 SuiteResourcesMIDI Remote Scriptscss_launchify

Or if you would like to just download the python script, you can grab it from my google drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OWFYmC3gbAsbXP5OHN3rdJ28HRbnGzrx/view?u…

Thanks again!

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Hey mate, do you have an updated version for CSS 3?
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weppingpresent 0 Comments

Hello, I am fighting with this ..
I use an APC40 MKII and I’m trying to reproduce almost the same behavior as the original one (the differences are the faders having 85% max value and the top encoders modes).
I need the pads to behave as the stock APC40 scripts, with colors following the session box.

Is it possible at all with the current version of CSS ? I’m afraid we would need a ton of modifiers ..
If not, maybe someone has raw python I could add manually to my script ? Considering I know basically nothing about python, but I can deduct some stuff.

Please please implement this in the Session Box mapping, this is a must 🙂

Cheers

Attached is my script if needed (wip)

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jaspermiddelberg 0 Comments

Tip: If you need to convert a Hex string to Dec: use ChatGPT

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R. 0 Comments

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.

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JohnC 0 Comments

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 🙂

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