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hi

i've made a patch that lets me control the volume, panning, sends and rack controls in whatever highlighted track i'm focused on. i'm trying to now access the controls of a Looper on the currently selected track but i've read here and there that you can't access Looper controls via the LOM? Is this right? i'm not sure as i found a device which looked like it does this on maxforlive.com but the link for the device is dead: http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... angerously

has anyone done anything similar or is this not possible?

at the moment i have five loopers on five tracks in my set and i control them by five different presets on my softstep but it'd be a lot more convenient if i could have just one preset which latches on to the parameters in each Looper when i move along the tracks in session view

thanks for any help

Contact forum user peeddrroo

You can do that with ClyphX Pro Bindings, it allows you to map dynamically to a device on a selected track...

Cheers
D

hey cheers - so with the ClyphX advice, do i assume that this isn't possible in MFL? or would Peeddrroo maybe know different? (i haven't asked him yet)

You can access most (bar the drag sample to clip slot element) but the master action button isn't quantised when you go through M4L.

I'm just doing a video so this gives me an idea to see what's possible...

Cheers
D

Yeah, thinking of it, I don't know what the problem is with M4L, you should be able to access every parameter of the looper.

As S4RACEN said, you can access everything, except the drag sample to clip slot.

at the moment i have five loopers on five tracks in my set and i control them by five different presets on my softstep but it'd be a lot more convenient if i could have just one preset which latches on to the parameters in each Looper when i move along the tracks in session view

That's totally possible in M4L. Though you'll need to recreate the logic behind the multifunction button, and do the quantizing in M4L, as S4RACEN noted.

I did a custom job for a band, the quantising is particularly impossible unfortunately as it will fall out of sync regardless due to the inaccuracies of timing in M4L...

Cheers
D

I've actually had decent luck quantizing, not the looper specifically, but quantizing actions in a M4l device to Live.

Is it simply a matter of calling API functions, or settings states that is inaccurate?

This is why I build my own loopers...

thanks again

so i know that it can be done

i'm trying to use the code i've already done to dynamically control the dials in a rack when the rack is the first device, but i need to change the dial to a button to control the rec/play/stop/clear buttons in looper. i use the dial 'rack 1' in the device and midi map it, it works fine. but when i change it to a button i cant get looper to respond and i dont know what number order looper's parameters are in

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thanks for any further advice or help

Parameters :

0 Device ON
1 State
2 Feedback
3 Reverse
4 Monitor
5 Speed
6 Quantization
7 Song Control
8 Tempo Control

hey thanks for this chapelier, it should help a lot. i figure the 'state' is the main big button? does this mean that there is no way of accessing the four smaller buttons above it? it's those which i want to have dynamically midi mapped, as well as the undo and clear buttons


edit - i've just been testing all the parameters abpve and it seems none of them give access to the record/play/stop buttons?

slatepipe wrote:hey thanks for this chapelier, it should help a lot. i figure the 'state' is the main big button? does this mean that there is no way of accessing the four smaller buttons above it? it's those which i want to have dynamically midi mapped, as well as the undo and clear buttons


edit - i've just been testing all the parameters abpve and it seems none of them give access to the record/play/stop buttons?

You don't need access to those buttons necessarily, just set the 'state' to reflect the desired button. 0 = stop, 1 = rec, 2 = play, 3 = overdub.

You'll have a hard time doing anything with the undo/clear. As far as I know, you can't access those via M4L. And you can't dynamically change MIDI mappings either, so this isn't as straightforward as it should be.

Just brainstorming a potential workaround here - you could make a device that takes in MIDI from the SS, and based on the selected track, assigns a different channel to the MIDI output. Using IAC bus on Mac you could route that MIDI back into Live to control the loopers.

dataf1ow wrote:

slatepipe wrote:
You'll have a hard time doing anything with the undo/clear. As far as I know, you can't access those via M4L.

Agreed, I just MIDI Map those

dataf1ow wrote:

slatepipe wrote: And you can't dynamically change MIDI mappings either, so this isn't as straightforward as it should be.

You can with ClyphX Pro Bindings, I think you'd want the Mapping bound as relative ones so based on the selected track if it contains a Looper then it should map to the parameters you want....

Cheers
D

hi - thanks again, all good info, and i think i'm getting closer to figuring it out. i was triggering a Looper to record last night, but not to play afterwards, probably due to my poor MFL skills

maybe i'm using the wrong phrase when i say dynamically mapping? but i've made a few patches now where i can have say, one slider control the volume for whatever track is highlighted, and it works fine. or i can have up to 8 knobs control 8 parameters on the first device on a highlighted track. in many of my live sets i have a rack as my first device on each track and therefore control the 8 macros of whatever the highlighted track is

in fact - i think it was S4racen who helped me figure it out earlier this year via email?

i'm just trying to use a button to trigger the Looper buttons instead of a slider and i figure that should be it

thanks