Mapping Positive Grid Spark control to start for multiple loopers

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MoulinRouge
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Mapping Positive Grid Spark control to start for multiple loopers

Post by MoulinRouge » Fri Aug 25, 2023 2:42 pm

I have a Positive Grid Spark control (Bluetooth footswitch) which is essentially a re-badged airturn BT500S-4.

I have set one of the modes to send out the keys 1,2, right arrow,left arrow (a number for each footswitch).

In live 11 I have a few audio tracks. Each one has a looper on it.

What I'm trying to achieve is that I can map the 1 to a looper start and 2 to undo. Then have right arrow so I can move to the next track in session view (and left if I need to move back).

What I can't work out is how to have one of the pedals ALWAYS control just the looper start/stop on the track that I'm on.

If I map the switch 1 to track 1, looper start, then map switch 1 to start/stop on the next looper on track 2. It doesnt matter if I'm on track 1, 2 or how ever many I have mapped it to, they all start at the same time :-)

I understand why, because I have mapped 1 to more than 1 thing, but how can I set it up so that if I am on track 1 and it has a looper on it and I push switch 1, it controls just that looper. Then if I move to track 2 and use the same switch, it controls just that looper?

I'm plugging my guitar in and want to use track 1 clean for instance, then have some effects setup on track 2 so when I move to that one, I can record some different sounding stuff with my guitar, then move to track 3 and have some different effects setup there again.

Hope that all makes sense and any help would be appreciated. cheers.

MoulinRouge
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Re: Mapping Positive Grid Spark control to start for multiple loopers

Post by MoulinRouge » Fri Aug 25, 2023 2:45 pm

Forgot to add, I'd really like to use the looper instead of just starting to record in a session view track because it lets me easily start and stop a loop with tapping my footswitch once to start and twice to stop.

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