transmit midi signal from live to midi controller

[manumanu]

Hi,

I've live8 on a macbookpro. i controll it with many midi device. one of this the novation remote sl 25 compact.
do u know if is possible to send from live the status of a plug in (or whatever) to the midi controller?
i mean: the remote 25sl works pretty fine. i mapped my template with live and when, for exemple, i press the bottom 1 the track 1 turn in mute. the display of the remote say "OFF" and the botton led get red. but what i want is the other way round: to press by mouse the mute botton in live and to see the remote sl botton light up, and the display saying "OFF". is it possible?
because i have several templates, and in each one i like to have 8 botton with the same function (for exemple the mute of 8 track), but when i skip from one template to the other i need remote sl remember the status of live (mute ON/OFF, for exemple).
because in the exemple "mute ON/OFF" is quite simple, it's enought to wath the monitor...but to control the status of knobs and plugins on/off skipping from one template to the other is a mess.

thanks!

[manumanu]

Sorry,

maybe i was not clear enought.
The topic is this:

i don't know if when i change an already midi-mapped value in Live, this will be "seen" by the midi-controller.
Someone knows it? I don't even know how to call this behavior, so i don't know where to find an answer.

Thanks!

[manumanu]

so nobody knows it
mmmm

[Warrior Bob]

I don't know your particular controller as I've never used it myself, but Live does have a "Remote SL" and a "Remote SL Classic" in the Control Surface options under MIDI preferences. Maybe you need to set one of these?

If you have your controller set up as a control surface in this menu, it should receive information about mapped values.

I know this works for default values for control surfaces, I don't know if this works for user MIDI mappings, which is what I think you're trying to do. I don't have a control surface in front of me to test with.

Sorry this isn't more helpful.

[jonasbj]

Yo!

This function is called talkback and not all controllers support it (usually cheap ones does not).

If you find your controller under Control Surfaces in the MIDI/sync tab under Preferences and it supports talkback, you are good to go when you select it from the drop-down menu.

If it supports talkback, but you don´t find it under Control Surfaces you can try to google it, and maybe, if you are lucky, some one has programmed a Control Surface preset for your controller which you can slip into one of Live´s magic folders and it will appear under Control Surfaces.

Keep up abletoning!

[manumanu]

thanks guys!
so, i tryed, but i think that my remote sl25 doesn't support talkback.

ufff
but thanks for the help!
have a nice weekend!
manu

[manumanu]

errata corrige
REMOTE SL support talkback

everything working
now i've just to create my own "perfect template"
today is the day


bye and thxs, manu

[jonasbj]

Great to hear man!

Keep up the good work