Clip Navigation

Description

This is a simple clip navigation tool. With it you can map a midi pedal to the 9 Live buttons and

(a) move in between all of your available clip slots (i.e., up and down within a track and left and right between tracks),

(b) arm and disarm the Track you are on,

(c) fire any hi-lighted Clip,

(d) fire the selected Scene,

(e) undo any action, and

(f) redo any action.

This is my first attempt at programming a Max4Live patch. I found that I had to do a lot of things in the patch that seemed counter-intuitive to me in order to get it to work. So, any constructive advice that you can give will be much appreciated.

I must give credit to Sam Green for the inclusion of his M4L.api.ToggleArmSelectedTrack.maxpat (http://www.samgreene.com/drupal_samgreene/M4L-abstractions).

I'd love to have your feedback!

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Update 1.1 :

When using Live to assign midi controllers or midi notes to the Live.buttons in this patch it seems that Live expects a Note On and a Note Off message. Because of that, you had to press any single midi message twice in order to change the clip slot.

The result was that if you were using a midi keyboard, it functioned as expected because you were sending a note on and a note off message with each key press and release.

However, if you were using a midi pedal which sent one message with each press&release, then you had to do that twice.

As I am using it with just such a midi pedal, I have now configured the Live.buttons to execute the move with one Note On message. I hope that makes sense.

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Update 1.2

I found a much simpler way to program the navigation using the Max For Live Abstractions, and I added the Scene Fire button, the Undo button and the Redo button.