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Anomaly Performance

by LongestJourney

I kind of made it for myself but decided to share anyway. Ma...

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Type
MIDI Effect
Author
LongestJourney
Version
0.126
License
None
Live version
8.2.2
Max version
5.1.8
Downloads
5
Updated
2011-06-06

Description

I kind of made it for myself but decided to share anyway. Maybe it will be useful for someone. ;-)

There are some frequently used fuctions of Ableton Live that can not be easily mapped to MIDI events, (control change, etc). You can map scene navigation but not really a track navigation (only particular tracks to be highlighted). Same with mute/solo/arm. And what is most important you can't map "Insert MIDI Clip", "Delete Clip" or "Duplicate" and you have to reach for your mouse everytime you need those (it kills workflow for me).

So here is some simple patcher to solve those and provide several more functional features. It uses M4L.api for navigation, ring.KeyPress (http://www.chilp.ringtrio.de/MAX/ring_keyPress.class) for keystrokes and live.path and live.object for other stuff. It works for me. ;-)

1. Version: Build.126

2. Instalation:

a) Extract to: Ableton/Library/Presets/MIDI Effects/Max MIDI Effect/

b) Load to MIDI Track (any MIDI track but I recomend creating a new one)

c) Hit Ctrl+M and MIDI map buttons.

d) Done

3. Requirements:

Ableton Live 8.2.2 (http://ableton.com)

Max 5.1.8 (http://cycling74.com)

ring_keyPress.class (http://www.chilp.ringtrio.de/MAX/ring_keyPress.class)

4. Features:

Create Clip - creates new MIDI clip in the highlighted slot

Delete Clip - deletes a clip from highlighted slot

Duplicate Clip - duplicates a clip from highlighted slot

Rename Clip - open textbox of a clip name

Redo - redo

Undo - undo

Copy - copies a clip from highlighted slot

Paste - pastes a clip to highlighted slot

Up - navigation, one scene up

Down - navigation, one scene down

Left - navigation, one track left

Right - navigation, one track right

Center - launches selected clip

Delete Currently Playing - on the selected track finds and deletes a clip that is currently playing

Recreate Currently Playing - on the selected track finds and deletes a clip that is currently playing, and then creates a new one

Mute Selected Track - enables/disables mute on selected track

Solo Selected Track - enables/disables solo on selected track

Arm Selected Track - enables/disables arm on selected track

5. To do:

- ability to choose a new clip length

- clip loop enable/disable (done, just bring to the interface)

- Emergency Playing Clip Stop (without delete)

- Something wrong with M4L.api.Undo i M4L.api.Redo

6. Concat and bug reports:

marek -at- longestjourney -dot- eu

Comments and hints how to make it better very welcome!

Enjoy!

Bless!

Comments (16)

  • madlab · June 08 2011
    Create, Delete and Duplicate don't work for me 'out of the box'. Live 8.2.2 and M4L 5.1.8.
  • pauk · June 08 2011
    yep, it doesn't work for me either
    anyways thanks for the patch!
  • madlab · June 09 2011
    After more testing, only the navigation and mute solo arm buttons works. It's a shame because I'd really like to get access to the other functions but don't have a clue on how to do it.
  • mindmanwork · June 10 2011
    awesome patch.thanks
  • LongestJourney · June 10 2011
    Whoa, could you please provide some more info so I can fix that?
    I use this patch and I'm sure it works for me, just wondering what's wrong that it's all messed up for you.
    Did you map it to MIDI controller? Mouse clicking the buttons won't work indeed, you have to use external MIDI...
  • LongestJourney · June 10 2011
    Btw. About not working "out of the box". You need to put that:
    http://www.chilp.ringtrio.de/MAX/ring_keyPress.class
    Into the:
    Cycling '74\Max 5.0\Cycling '74\java\classes
    Also please do check out keypress author's profile on Maxobjects: http://www.maxobjects.com/?v=authors&id_auteur=313&requested=keypress&operateur=AND&id_plateforme=0&id_format=0
  • dulla · June 18 2011
    LongestJourney,
    This looks amazing? The link isn't working though..I'd love to try it out. Please put up a link when you get a chance..Many thanks,
  • synnack · June 19 2011
    I sent the author an email asking to fix the broken link. Note the "report link" button next to the link too that you can use to report these to me so I can try to get them fixed.
  • synnack · June 26 2011
    No response and the link still broken. Emailing one more time.
    I was afraid this would happen when I let people link elsewhere.
  • deliriodelux · July 01 2011
    im trying also to contact the author, with no luck... Can some or the lucky ones that downloaded before the broken link to uploaded again?.. thank in advance..
    "I was afraid this would happen when I let people link elsewhere.".. u r so right ...
  • farabee · July 31 2011
    link still broken
  • offthesky · February 15 2012
    download link is BORKEN!!!
  • denleschae · April 11 2013
    The download link for the device is working. The link to the necessary ring_keyPress.class is not. I found a link to it on http://www.maxobjects.com. The class file can be downloaded here:
    http://www.ringensemble.de/MAX/ring_keyPress.class
  • echofetish · January 22 2015
    Btw. About not working "out of the box". You need to put that:
    http://www.chilp.ringtrio.de/MAX/ring_keyPress.class
    Into the:
    Cycling '74\Max 5.0\Cycling '74\java\classes
    Once I followed the instruction above all of the buttons started to work but a few unexpected quirks make it too random for live performance. I kept deleting the track that the device was in which was annoying. It then got stuck in a loop and created new tracks over and over. Care needs to be taken with midi mapping. I was using my Oxygen triggering Note On msgs and had to double press the L-R, Up-Down. All this is making me less inclined to bother.
    I found this device to be the most stable for moving around the screen. http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/545/clip-navigation
  • xasancle · September 14 2019
    Doesn't work for me either... And I need it!
  • Soundprayer · November 25 2019
    Even after instaling class it doesn't work. Is it possible again? With you knowledge it is! I can pay for it, and some peopoe will do the same :) Please, help

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