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Brilliant! Thanks a lot guys...

Time for another bump. Perhaps this has been resolved?

From the original post , back in March 2010:

Navigating from this_device within a rack. Trying to do anything with said live.object seems to fail. Which means I can't write device helpers (e.g. revamping Sampler) that can be grouped or used ...

Hi.

pukunui wrote:Yeah, you're right, we need to deal with racks better in the API. I'll amend the tickets with this detail.

Just wondering if the rack access thing has been resolved (#1 on the list), or whether it is likely to be resolved soon...

Cheers, Alex.

... I don't quite see an advantage; if you want such information to be available in your patch its not that hard to write a listener yourself which can keep (for example) a 'value' object up to date.

The advantage is that it would be trivial to maintain and update a binding to a parameter with a ...

Well I'll make my own bloody sampler then...

I guess this is a feature request for M4L.

It would be amazing to be able to bind like [pattr @bindto parent::Sampler::Reverse] .

That is, have device and track names as patcher Scripting Names (i.e. @varname).

That is all.


Edit 24/11/10:

For those unfamiliar with pattr, it would mean that ...

This is why we have 2 modes for id.
- id follows path
and
- id follows object


My understanding is that id is not saved, so even though id can follow the object, initially we still have to know it's position to navigate to it with live.path. Since position (instead of name) is hard-coded into the ...

Live could feature support for versioning systems.
This basically comes from programming but I like to keep different versions of live projects in subversion so I can keep my notebook and my machine in the studio in sync without manually fiddling with files.
+1 great idea. A Subversion repository ...

Just to clarify - obviously I can live without this stuff. I just wanted to air my frustrations to see if anyone has worked around or if the developers are working on them. Thanks to pukunui for jumping in.

2) Navigating by name or class_name instead of index. Crawling the immediate chain and ...

The best thing about sampler is its integration with Live, otherwise things like Kontakt, EXSmkII, etc blow it out of the water. Obviously you can't change it too much without breaking existing songs, so here's some stuff I hope gets considered for version 2...

1) Better filters. If you ever heard ...

Just a couple of things I can't live without. Feel free to add... [or to point me in the right direction if this has already been done].

1) Navigating from this_device within a rack. Trying to do anything with said live.object seems to fail. Which means I can't write device helpers (e.g. revamping ...

Compared to the EXSmkII in Logic (which really sings), the filters in Sampler are completely lifeless.

It's nice to see the SVF has been added. Can we get some of the Operator's ladder filters too?

With a filter cutoff of zero, I can't seem to get anywhere near the top with envelope modulation. With Sampler I can use the Aux envelope as well but...

Dealing with nested FX/instrument groups gets kind of messy after a while.

Obviously this would be a pretty major change, but I always found the Buzz presentation of the FX/Generator graph pretty easy to understand.

Looks like that only works for Drum groups.

To clarify: I would like to extract a selection of notes from any MIDI instrument (not necessarily chained) into an identical track.

Maybe this kind of thing will be Max-scriptable...