How do I limit the arming of multiple midi tracks?

SanDiegoCA · Post by **SanDiegoCA** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:35 am

When using a mouse, Ableton only allows you to arm one midi track at a time. I want the same action with a mapped button. When I map the arm buttons to different controller buttons, and trigger them, they all stay lit until go back and turn them off. Any ideas?

Thank you!

auron · Post by **auron** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:04 am

under the preference menu, record/warp/launch. Turn both OFF under exclusive: arm, solo

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Gregory Wells-King · Post by **Gregory Wells-King** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:08 pm

Right on the money !!

SanDiegoCA · Post by **SanDiegoCA** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:31 am

Auron, thanks for the response. Unfortunately it still allows multiple instances of arming when I unselect the arm and solo options in the prefs.

My scenario is that I have Reason instruments rewired on different Ableton midi tracks. I would like to be able to arm only one midi track at a time so I don't end up playing multiple instruments with the same key. Currently when I want to switch instruments I am playing, I have to remember which track I have armed, go back and un-arm it then select the new track to arm. It would be much easier if I was restricted to only arming one track as happens when using a mouse. I also tried mapping a different controller with the same results. Any other ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
J

auron · Post by **auron** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:43 pm

J,

actually my mistake, the instructions I posted were for altering the default Ableton behavior of arming only one track at a time. but it should have gotten you to the right place in preferences.

if you have exclusive: arm activated then when you click the controller's button for arming the track the other ones should automatically be disabled by ableton. check your preferences again!

I have an MPD32 and I just checked to see if it would work...when I click the button mapped to arming track 1 then other tracks are disarmed just like when you use the mouse.

For my own setup I turned off the exclusive behavior off because I manually arm the tracks myself and the track's button (set as a latch) lights up letting me know its armed. So when I am playing I can always look at the controller to make sure the right tracks are on/off.

but that's my setup, I suspect you had a project with the default preferences for arming tracks changed (exclusive: arm was off) and that's why it wasn't working.

AceLuby · Post by **AceLuby** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:35 pm

Exclusive arm w/ a mapped MIDI control does not work as designed. If manually mapped you can still arm multiple tracks. I've run into the same problem, it's a bug.

SanDiegoCA · Post by **SanDiegoCA** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:31 pm

Thanks for the responses. It looks like you are both right. I still cannot set it to select only one track and it seems like a bug as Ace mentioned. If anyone has any clever workarounds that would be great, otherwise I guess I will have to un-sarm each track before playing a different one.

J

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