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!