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This can work, as long as you use this with a virtual midi port, like IAC bus on Mac. Good Point. I remember that's how I'd tested it. Otherwise, I wrote a M4L device once, called "mille plateaux" that let's you take snapshots of a parameter and distribute them across a knob. It's clumsy,...

This is do-able with M4L. You need to reassign MIDI in the patch so when you send CC messages they get reconfigured to send Note messages instead: Say it's CC1: While you're pressing softly and it's a CC value of say 0-20, you only send a Note On message for the root of the chord (say C) When you're...

ive put the external instrument on a midi track but when I try and add a instrument plugin after it the external instrument disappears. how do I get the midi channel conversion into the instrument? You'll need two separate MIDI Tracks, one with your instrument loaded in it (let's say Operator), and...

You can MIDI Map the particular clip slot's record button to the footswitch.

It might be a better approach to use CC controls for this, since you want to control just one parameter (Beat Repeat Grid Divisions) Assign a specific CC message to the grid... Let's say CC1 for discussion sake: In your Max4Live patch, you can now assign your buttons (say F0 to A0) to modify the val...

lol yup you're totally right.
That's a much easier solution.

This seems odd.
Can you share your signal flow chain?

I'm not sure I totally understand the issue but if you're trying to record the looper channel audio onto clips, perhaps you can feed that audio into a new track next to it which is always listening to it and record the clips on there?

I'm curious to know what your mate's using for visuals!

On the longer speech samples you could put it as one long clip on the beginning scene where you want to trigger it and then remove the stop buttons on empty clipslots below where you want it to keep playing.

I don't know the exact situation but I think Follow Action on an empty clip might help in this case?

You could create a M4L Midi Effect. You might need MAX for it though.

Oh for sure it's not really a Max thing, I was just commenting on the weirdness of gigs. They really don't seem to have much correlation to what happens in rehearsals. The words "what the hell is happening? This never normally does this!!" always seem to come to mind ;-) But yes, a factor...