transport starting mysteriously (live 11)

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rtroost
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transport starting mysteriously (live 11)

Post by rtroost » Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:23 pm

Hi-

I am having a wierd issue where live 11 starts playing suddenly when it has been left alone for a while. I expect that it is getting some kind of transport start message from one of the (many) connected MIDI devices or even from ableton link. Does anyone know how to go about diagnosing this? are transport events logged someplace? can i run live in debug/verbose mode to enable diagnosing this?

Any help much appreciated.

rtroost
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Re: transport starting mysteriously (live 11)

Post by rtroost » Thu May 04, 2023 10:02 am

Anyone?

There must be some way to turn on verbose logging.

has anyone else had their transport start when nobody is there?

ghosts in the studio?

fishmonkey
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Re: transport starting mysteriously (live 11)

Post by fishmonkey » Thu May 04, 2023 10:09 am

try using a MIDI monitoring app. e.g. MIDI-OX for Windows, or Snoize MIDI Monitor for macOS...

rtroost
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Re: transport starting mysteriously (live 11)

Post by rtroost » Thu May 04, 2023 5:13 pm

yeah, i have midi monitor running. maybe that will find it. however, i've had to silence:

- the constant 'active sense' messages from push
- the constant 'bank select 0' messages from RME ARC

wonder if the sheer volume of messages from these two sources is a problem...

AbletonMASCHINE
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Re: transport starting mysteriously (live 11)

Post by AbletonMASCHINE » Thu May 04, 2023 6:18 pm

Ghost notes... :)

Serious: Something sends transport messages. I recommend checking all settings of all your MIDI devices. Worst case: Disconnect all, reconnect one by one and then you will see what device is the culprit.

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Re: transport starting mysteriously (live 11)

Post by fishmonkey » Thu May 04, 2023 10:45 pm

rtroost wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 5:13 pm
wonder if the sheer volume of messages from these two sources is a problem...
you could use something like Bome MIDI Translator to filter the messages and notify you when a transport message is received...

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