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Quick question, is there a way to get ableton to reload/recompile a script without restarting it? That's the most time consuming part of the process.

Thanks


Hey,

you can try using python "reload" builtin or sometimes changing the control surface from options - preferences - MIDI works fine.

Hello!

I've been writing few remote scripts for Ableton, and something I've struggled quite a bit was debugging them.

It's a personal thing, usually when I code, especially in an environment that I don't know, I need to debug it to understand what's behind the curtain.
Anyway, how?

I've used ...

I solved this, for anyone having the same issue:

The channel was set to 0 in python midi_cmd_sender instead of 1. It's correct to use 0 if you want to send it on channel 1, but the msg concatenation was causing it to become 16, so sending it to the wrong channel.

I changed the ButtonElement ...

Hello,
I wrote an util to send midi data from a python script to ableton, mostly using rtmidi.

On the ableton side, I have a remote script, fairly simple with just couple of buttons in the main class:


...
self._session = SessionComponent(8, 1, is_enabled=True)

self.next_track_button ...