Start play Song issue!
Good afternoon everyone!
Sorry for the many questions, but I’m trying to finalize the script once and for all. I managed to solve the timeline scrubbing issue thanks to the script I downloaded here. I just had to reduce the number of beats, otherwise the locator was moving too fast. Now I can scrub through the timeline and start the song from that point… unless I press stop twice! At that point, it no longer matters where the locator is — the song will always start from where the small triangular play marker is positioned in the timeline, which in this case is at the beginning.
On the Minilab 3, when you move through the timeline using the knob and press play on the same knob, the small play marker is automatically positioned at that point.
Is there a way to achieve the same result in CSS?
Basically, when you press play, the marker from which playback always starts should be updated to the current locator position.
Thanks again, and I hope someone can help me!
Thank you very much for the reply, Denis.
In Arturia’s Midi Control Center, the knob used to move along the timeline and to restart the playhead from that exact position is an endless encoder — the same knob used to select presets in Arturia VSTs and now also in Komplete Kontrol.
The other knobs can be transformed from Absolute mode into various Relative modes.
Unfortunately, the Midi Fighter doesn’t have these features in its utility, but i can modify them in the script. However, even when i set the knob to Relative, i still get a maximum value of 127. This means that if i start from zero and turn the knob, once i reach 127, i can’t go any further.
I don’t know if there’s a number or value that represents “infinity” that i could use instead. I’m not very experienced in scripting, unfortunately.
What’s really driving me crazy, though, is why Ableton doesn’t sync the Play Head to the green marker that sets the playback start position. I just don’t understand the reasoning behind that. I get the functionality when working in Session View with clips, but in the Arrangement timeline, it makes no sense to me.
I move the playhead, press play, and expect it to start from there.
I press stop twice, it starts from the beginning — fine. But if i just press stop once, i would love for it to start again from that same point.
Of course, that’s possible by pressing SHIFT + Space Bar.
The APC64 has a SHIFT button, but it’s super inconvenient — especially because the transport bar is placed in the upper right corner. Very uncomfortable.
So yeah, it would be amazing to have SHIFT + PLAY always triggered when you press the dedicated play button. That would be fantastic to implement in CSS.
Does the midi fighter have some software to make the knobs only go from 62 to 66? That would solve your problem, since switching on Relative mode in Arturia Midi Center just makes the Knobs go from 62 – 66 too.
The MF Twister knobs can be changed to ‘relative’ mode.
See Midi Fighter Utility – Encoder MIDI Type: ENC 3FH/41H
turning right sends the MIDI velocity value 65 and turning left sends 63
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“What’s really driving me crazy, though, is why Ableton doesn’t sync the Play Head to the green marker”
I was testing this last night and wholeheartedly agree!