Change the parameter mapping of Lives own devices in Push!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:29 pm
The project:
As a prospective user of Push, I marveled at its potential and then got frustrated at all the little things that kept it from being perfect for what I'd like to do with it. My biggest gripe was always the way the parameters of Lives own devices were arranged in Push and how there seemed to be nothing that could be done about it. And then I started to wonder: maybe there IS something that could be done about it….
The result of this endeavor is the file you can download now. After we (I got shortly a big chunk of the Live community involved - thanks guys, great work!
), figured out how to change the settings, we decided to save all you guys some work and just make our favorite mapping and then just share it … and here it is:
Download:
-Goto: http://filepi.com/i/i2Ibe91
-Version V1.1 now available at
http://filepi.com/i/b5EbYM0
(Only Sampler mapping has changed with all the envelope slopes and Reverse)
-Download the .zip file and unzip it.
Thanks go to Stray(Metastatic) for all the useful information he provided for achieving this goal. To shadx312 for further information, as well as syncr and Valiumdupeuple for preliminary testing.
Most of the mapping and the initial start of the project was done by TomViolenz and most of the testing by tedlogan.
We hope you will enjoy this as much as we will!
Tom and Ted
Important:
This will give you a much enhanced mapping of your Live devices in Push! But because you are overwriting the _Generic version of the necessary file, this will affect ALL MIDI remote surfaces you use.
If you just use Push, this may not matter to you. But if you already use others, you should check if this changes functionality you need for those!
If you don't like the new mapping, just reverse it by the steps described below.
Installation:
1: Shut down Live
2: Go to your program directory, right click on the Live 9 icon and choose "Show Package Content"
3: Go to: Contents/App-Resources/MIDI Remote Scripts/_Generic and rename the Devices.pyc file in it to defaultDevices.pyc
4: Drop the Devices.py file from this download into this folder
5: Restart Live (The new mappings should now be in place)
Note: If you use several different versions of Live 9, you will have to repeat this procedure for each of them, if you wish to use this mapping with all of them. (But you can of course just choose one)
Optional
6: Go back to the same location. You'll now see that Live has compiled your Devices.py into Devices.pyc, while leaving the Devices.py intact.
You can now rename this Devices.py file to customDevices.py
In this way you always have a copy of it in case Ableton overwrites the Devices.pyc when it up-dates.
Reversal:
7: Shut down Live
8: Go to your program directory, right click on the Live 9 icon and choose "Show Package Content"
9: Go to: Contents/App-Resources/MIDI Remote Scripts/_Generic and rename the Devices.pyc file in it to customDevices.pyc
10: Rename the file defaultDevices.pyc that you named in step 3 to Devices.pyc
11: Restart Live (The default mappings should now be in place again)
Adapting your new mapping to your needs:
You can adapt the supplied community mapping to your specific need quite easily. How this is achieved is explained here in metastatiks second post:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=198704&start=75
If you have any questions or suggestions you can also post here in this very thread.
Disclaimer: Everything you do with the community mapping, you do on your own risk, we are not liable for any damage that may occur!
To the Ableton employee reading this:
This community mapping of Lives devices in Push enhances in our opinion their and its usefulness immensely. Every user of this mapping is already a paying customer for at least one of your products (Push). So please don't do anything on purpose to break this method.
In case you find that this mapping is indeed better than the default mapping you supplied, feel free to use it for future up-dates as you wish, no need to ask!
Notes for some of the device mappings:
EQ8: We tried to have every conceivable combination mapped. The first banks are dedicated to Stereo processing, while the later ones are for Mid/Side and Left/Right. Unfortunately it is not possible to assign the switch between Stereo and Mid/Side-Left/Right. You will need to use the mouse for that. BandListen is also not assignable.
Glue Compressor: It was note possible to assign the "listen to side chain only" toggle in Glue like we could in Lives compressor.
Analog/Operator/Sampler:
We made extensive mappings with all useful combinations of parameters we could think of. General controls are usually on the first banks, while relational controls (e.g. all Attacks of all available envelopes) are in the later banks.
Operator: Because of a bug in Live, we were not able to assign all Shaper/Drive parameters (For some reason the API outputs them as identical names...).
Sampler:This is not a bug, and it is therefore much harder to understand how one could think that it is useful to make ALL the controls of the LFOs 2 and 3, as well as the Aux Envelope available, but NOT their modulation targets or even the modulation amounts!!! Hopefully this will be changed in the future!
Known issues:
Some small devices don't display the correct bank names (you can access them though, they are just named Bank1….etc.). We don't understand yet why.
As a prospective user of Push, I marveled at its potential and then got frustrated at all the little things that kept it from being perfect for what I'd like to do with it. My biggest gripe was always the way the parameters of Lives own devices were arranged in Push and how there seemed to be nothing that could be done about it. And then I started to wonder: maybe there IS something that could be done about it….
The result of this endeavor is the file you can download now. After we (I got shortly a big chunk of the Live community involved - thanks guys, great work!
), figured out how to change the settings, we decided to save all you guys some work and just make our favorite mapping and then just share it … and here it is: Download:
-Goto: http://filepi.com/i/i2Ibe91
-Version V1.1 now available at
http://filepi.com/i/b5EbYM0
(Only Sampler mapping has changed with all the envelope slopes and Reverse)
-Download the .zip file and unzip it.
Thanks go to Stray(Metastatic) for all the useful information he provided for achieving this goal. To shadx312 for further information, as well as syncr and Valiumdupeuple for preliminary testing.
Most of the mapping and the initial start of the project was done by TomViolenz and most of the testing by tedlogan.
We hope you will enjoy this as much as we will!
Tom and Ted
Important:
This will give you a much enhanced mapping of your Live devices in Push! But because you are overwriting the _Generic version of the necessary file, this will affect ALL MIDI remote surfaces you use.
If you just use Push, this may not matter to you. But if you already use others, you should check if this changes functionality you need for those!
If you don't like the new mapping, just reverse it by the steps described below.
Installation:
1: Shut down Live
2: Go to your program directory, right click on the Live 9 icon and choose "Show Package Content"
3: Go to: Contents/App-Resources/MIDI Remote Scripts/_Generic and rename the Devices.pyc file in it to defaultDevices.pyc
4: Drop the Devices.py file from this download into this folder
5: Restart Live (The new mappings should now be in place)
Note: If you use several different versions of Live 9, you will have to repeat this procedure for each of them, if you wish to use this mapping with all of them. (But you can of course just choose one)
Optional
6: Go back to the same location. You'll now see that Live has compiled your Devices.py into Devices.pyc, while leaving the Devices.py intact.
You can now rename this Devices.py file to customDevices.py
In this way you always have a copy of it in case Ableton overwrites the Devices.pyc when it up-dates.
Reversal:
7: Shut down Live
8: Go to your program directory, right click on the Live 9 icon and choose "Show Package Content"
9: Go to: Contents/App-Resources/MIDI Remote Scripts/_Generic and rename the Devices.pyc file in it to customDevices.pyc
10: Rename the file defaultDevices.pyc that you named in step 3 to Devices.pyc
11: Restart Live (The default mappings should now be in place again)
Adapting your new mapping to your needs:
You can adapt the supplied community mapping to your specific need quite easily. How this is achieved is explained here in metastatiks second post:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=198704&start=75
If you have any questions or suggestions you can also post here in this very thread.
Disclaimer: Everything you do with the community mapping, you do on your own risk, we are not liable for any damage that may occur!
To the Ableton employee reading this:
This community mapping of Lives devices in Push enhances in our opinion their and its usefulness immensely. Every user of this mapping is already a paying customer for at least one of your products (Push). So please don't do anything on purpose to break this method.
In case you find that this mapping is indeed better than the default mapping you supplied, feel free to use it for future up-dates as you wish, no need to ask!
Notes for some of the device mappings:
EQ8: We tried to have every conceivable combination mapped. The first banks are dedicated to Stereo processing, while the later ones are for Mid/Side and Left/Right. Unfortunately it is not possible to assign the switch between Stereo and Mid/Side-Left/Right. You will need to use the mouse for that. BandListen is also not assignable.
Glue Compressor: It was note possible to assign the "listen to side chain only" toggle in Glue like we could in Lives compressor.
Analog/Operator/Sampler:
We made extensive mappings with all useful combinations of parameters we could think of. General controls are usually on the first banks, while relational controls (e.g. all Attacks of all available envelopes) are in the later banks.
Operator: Because of a bug in Live, we were not able to assign all Shaper/Drive parameters (For some reason the API outputs them as identical names...).
Sampler:This is not a bug, and it is therefore much harder to understand how one could think that it is useful to make ALL the controls of the LFOs 2 and 3, as well as the Aux Envelope available, but NOT their modulation targets or even the modulation amounts!!! Hopefully this will be changed in the future!
Known issues:
Some small devices don't display the correct bank names (you can access them though, they are just named Bank1….etc.). We don't understand yet why.
