arm on select

Description

MIDI device that arms the track it's on when that track is selected, and un-arms it when another track is selected. Disabling the device prevents arming changes. There are no other controls! It just does its thing.

There are two other methods I know of that do this:

You may have a controller that does this automatically via its Live integration. For example the Push automatically arms instrument tracks when you select them.

There is also the "-EnableArmOnSelect" hidden preference, but I don't want it to happen all the time so I haven't tried that. If you do then that may or may not work for you.

There may be something else that I'm totally missing! Neither of these were quite right for me, so I made this. Maybe you will find it useful too.

I was going to also upload another device which is this but copy and pasted to an audio device, but I can't see how to upload a new device here any more. Not sure what's going on. I realised as I did this that I might have made just that in the first place, because MIDI tracks can take audio devices too, later on in the chain. But then it's a bit ugly, and this is already what it is.

## Change log

v2.0, 4th October 2024

Now also works in MIDI Effect Racks, with thanks to commenter offthesky. (Sorry I didn't fix this sooner – I guess this site doesn't email me about comments.)