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How many tracks in your set?

If you have the note data, you can always build your own piano roll in m4l and have it as a popup window, a bit more involved though!

Some of its possible. You cant actually change the gui in any way. But you can access all note data and edit it. So you could reverse the notes with m4l, and duplicate the clip with half of it reversed for ping pong type playback.

For the keyboard and drum pads you need a virtual midi port installed (on windows at least). http://liine.net/livecontrol/livecontrol/installation/ "3. LiveControl will detect any devices attached to your network. Select a MIDI port you would like to use for MIDI input. On windows, install MIDI...

Thats a great idea barstu. In python thats how it works, for example tracks returns a tuple of track objects. Would be much simpler in m4l if we could prototype each of the arrays to return the actual objects

Yep i do the same thing in kapture. Get the number of chains from the api with getcount, then iterate through each one.

you want to gate just before the deferlow, thats where the triggertrack loads come from. you dont want to gate the load_bank_string or kapture wont restore your bank on load!

the midi track should be named "Kapture Pad" not kapture

I think it just means you cant initiate them in the global scope as the liveapi object wont be ready at that time. Ive got no problem with a globally declared variable being initiated in a function triggered by live.thisdevice.

I've got a few resources for the LiveAPI here too:
http://liine.net/livecontrol/ableton-liveapi/resources/

i need to commit the latest liveapi dump, not got round to that yet

It does work with racks but you need to be running the live beta You're an API wizard :D Those speed improvements mentioned in the latest beta, are they noticeable in python projects too? The pyton api was always significantly quicker than m4l ;) It works pretty well, even with quite complex racks....

I've been trying to figure out why kapture hasn't worked on some VSTs I have loaded and I finally figured out that it doesn't seem to kapture any devices within racks. This is really too bad. Is that live limitation? Otherwise it works great and is very easy to use. It does work with racks but you ...

I understand setting a controller as control surface is important to report parameter changes back from software to controller, especially for relative control with the rotaries. This is wrong. For the bi-directional control, you need to enable the remote Input and Ouput in Live's preferences. You ...

Yup, each device now has a "chains" property. so for example: track 0 devices 0 chains 0 devices 0 then that device also has a chains property, etc, etc. enjoy writing recursive code for that ;) no idea why this isnt on the changelog for the latest beta, bjorn pointed me in the right direc...

Updated this, hopefully fixed the sync issues.