Track selection/looper
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to select a track with a button, THEN use the same button to engage a device parameter, but only after the track is selected.
I have a Nektar Pacer set up so the bottom 6 foot switches can select tracks and the same switches are mapped to the looper multi button. At the moment, recording begins on selection. I would like to be able to select the track and only engage the looper following the track selection.
Sorry for repeating myself. I’m new to Remotify, so still getting my head around it all!
Cheers.
ok I think this might be a problem with having blinders on thinking that the solution is only one way… Here’s a different solution that should work to help you with this because I was just using this kind of thing… If you use the web app designed by studio links to use a web interface to program your pacer you can make it so that a pedal press can have different media messages in sequence for each press… There by you can set up a single cc to arm the track and then another cc message to start the truck to record weather that through the loop or or just directly into the session view.
web addy for pacer programer… (use chrome ! firefox)
https://studiocode.dev/pacer-editor/#/
this should give a simpler solution to your issue
Hi smunday,
I copied the code to another controller and existing script, to test it out.
I changed some things so it should work now. Also the play button is now being triggered from the script, so that is one annoying thing less 😉
A few things to double-check:
- If your script already uses ‘m1’ then put another modifier (one which is not in use) in “Set start state to ‘m1′”. Also change the ‘m1’ modifier to that new free modifier in “Looper: Multi-Purpose Track Button v5”
- In “Looper: Multi-Purpose Track Button v5” Button 1 is the trigger, if you want to change it to another button on your controller, you will have to change it in the ‘Listener’ and in ‘Action Block 2’.
Hope this one helps you out!
Hi smunday,
Yes, having 4 dedicated pedals for each state is fairly easy to program. Although it has its pros and cons; you can very easily switch to any state! But you’ll have to train more muscle memory in order to make no mistakes while performing live.
Your second solution is partially possible; you could exclude some inputs from your ‘Controller Template’ and use those for midi mapping but you won’t be able to get feedback on those inputs via CSS because they will not be included in your script. You could use the LED feedback of the inputs that are included in your ‘Controller Template’.
But I came up with something better!! A script that will let you loop through the 4 states of the looper’s Transport Button 🙂
Bear in mind though that Live has to be in Play modus in order for the looper’s Transport Button to work..
I am not sure whether it is an Ableton API or CSS thing.
Anyway, you can try it out with the script hereunder. By default the script has the same state flow as the looper device, you can change that in the script if you want to. 😉
EDIT: good to know: the script loops through the states with each press of the button.
Hello again,
I did get it working but there are some flaws..
First Ableton has to be in Play mode.
And then also: the multi-button doesn’t work the same way via Midi Remote Scripting as it does in Ableton using mouse clicks..
The looper has 4 states, which means you would need 4 buttons to be able to use all of them.
The numbers for the states are:
0 = Stop
1 = Record
2 = Play
3 = Overdub
By using the adjacent numbers you can use 2 states in one button. So you can have “Stop/Record” on 1 button or “Record/Play” or “Play/Overdub”
In short, it is not perfect, alternatively you could also use a dummy clip and have the envelope of the looper state in it but that creates similar and other problems.
Anyway, in the screenshot hereunder you can see the settings for controlling looper’s Record and Play in one button.
https://remotify.io/sites/default/files/community-forum-uploads/Capture0…
I really hope this already helps to some extent.
To be continued..
Hi smunday,
Glad Live 11 is working as it should again.
You are right, I also can’t get the multi-button to work..
I do think it is parameter 1 that should be triggered, but for now, I only get it to clear the looper, which is not what we are after.
Let me dive a little deeper into it.
Till soon!
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