Automatically select the playing clip trick

[baseinstinct]

What is the options.txt setting - or a workaround - that makes default selecting the playing clip when navigating to the track?

[[jur]]

There's a preference, something like "follow selection".
No option.txt entry AFAIK

[baseinstinct]

Not this I suppose.

There is a command for this in selectedtrackcontrol midi script. Don't know what it is based on but here is how it is referred to: auto-select playing clip-slot when selecting a track .

So if you have scene 1 clip playing on track 1 and scene 9 clip on track two, when you navigate between tracks, the selection jumps to the plaining clip. Quite amazing in its simplicity and very useful.
Still, no setting accessible via menu or options file.

[siliconarc]

you can click on the timer/pie-graph area of any track to jump to its currently playing clip.
would be good if this was an optional default behaviour when clicking track headers though.

[baseinstinct]

Too mousey for live performance but good to know, thanks.

As a minimum - though why minimum - assigning the clock to a midi controller or laptop key would be useful. in push, push tells you press button to move to the playing clip. Could be automatic as an option - no doubt.

Using the script, mentioned above, I will have to press ctrl + delete at the beginning of every abeton session (not project). And once or it gets back to default. Here is the midi assignment, those who can do autohotkey and want to use selected track control script.

^delete::
note = 51 ; auto-select playing clip-slot when selecting a track (toggle, project independent)
MidiNoteOn(hDev, vChan, note, 127)
MidiNoteOff(hDev, vChan, note, 127)
return