Clip Navigation
This is a simple clip navigation tool. With it you can map ...
- Type
- MIDI Effect
- Author
- malikilam
- Version
- 1.2
- License
- None
- Live version
- 8.1.1
- Max version
- 5.1.0
- Downloads
- 1,158
- Updated
- 2011-02-10
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.