How to map midi controller to focus only on selected track in Ableton Live?

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I want to custom map a seperate plug-in on every track to my MIDI controller. Can I do this so only the currently selected track mapping is active?

If so how do I go about setting ups control script for this?

Thanks

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I have one more idea that builds upon the workflow in my second comment. There is the possibility to add multiple Listeners to a reaction. So in essence, you could add all the Listeners you want to use in a track to a single reaction that has multiple Action Blocks, where each Block only reacts when its Listener is active.

__REACTION__
LISTENERS: e.g. 4 buttons
– Button A
– Button B
– Button C
– Button D

ACTION BLOCKS:
ACTION BLOCK 1: (see comment #2, it checks if the correct track is selected)

ACTION BLOCK 2
CONDITIONS:
Script > Listener Number (int) > is equal to > 1
I think Listener Numbers start at 1, so in this case: 1 == Button A
!!! Listener Numbers correspond to the order in which you’ve added Listeners to this reaction.
ACTIONS:
Whatever you want Button A to do on this track.

ACTION BLOCK 3
CONDITIONS:
Script > Listener Number (int) > is equal to > 2
ACTIONS:
Whatever you want Button B to do on this track.

And so on for buttons C and D.

I personally don’t like to have a huge list of mappings, especially when its repeating functionality for different buttons, so this is what I would do then. Depends on your personal preference, I suppose. In this case you could name your reaction the same as your track’s name, keeps it all together, no need to constantly close and open reactions while working on mappings for a single track.

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