Record Arm on when selecting a track?
Record Arm on when selecting a track?
I am a beginner with Live and could not figure out how to do that.
Thanks for any help!
Thanks for any help!
Re: Record Arm on when selecting a track?
Create an options.txt file (https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/artic ... s-txt-file) and add this line to it:
-EnableArmOnSelection
Then arm just 1 track.
It doesn't work with zero armed tracks or with more than one armed track (I think that's good, it allows just selecting tracks without needing to edit options.txt and restarting Live).
-EnableArmOnSelection
Then arm just 1 track.
It doesn't work with zero armed tracks or with more than one armed track (I think that's good, it allows just selecting tracks without needing to edit options.txt and restarting Live).
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Re: Record Arm on when selecting a track?
Wow thanks that worked!
But why is it so complicated, in Cubase or Studio One I just enable Auto Record Arm, and it works.
But why is it so complicated, in Cubase or Studio One I just enable Auto Record Arm, and it works.
Re: Record Arm on when selecting a track?
To auto arm when you click on a midi track: Live 11.0.12 on Mac Big Sur: go to the Finder, Macintosh HD, Users, (username), Library, Preferences, Ableton, Live (most recent version). Then create options.txt (txt may be provided for you. I duplicated another txt file, renamed it, and deleted text)... and type "-EnableArmOnSelection". I am not a programmer, but this worked for me and I hope this helps you!
Re: Record Arm on when selecting a track?
I have searched for my Option.txt on version 11.2.7 but it's gone but it looks like it inherited -EnableArmOnSelection from a previous version.
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Re: Record Arm on when selecting a track?
Auto-arming is a feature which is part of my Futility m4l tool device... and it can be de/activated straight from the device......... which is way handier than using the Options.txt
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Re: Record Arm on when selecting a track?
I just did this today and it's glorious! I'm me-myself-and I doing music and this is a real time-saver.
Live 11.x Suite, Push 2, AMD Ryzen 7900x @ 4.7 GHZ, Windows 11, 32 GB ram, Volt 2, Nektar T4 and Atom SQ.
Also a new lappy: i7 1269, 32 gigs of ram.
Also a new lappy: i7 1269, 32 gigs of ram.
Re: Record Arm on when selecting a track?
Ty for this device btw.Valiumdupeuple wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:46 pmAuto-arming is a feature which is part of my Futility m4l tool device... and it can be de/activated straight from the device......... which is way handier than using the Options.txt
Its been part of my default setup for years.
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Re: Record Arm on when selecting a track?
I'm hesitant to post here anymore, but I thought I'd take one last chance. I switched over to mac and everything is working great except this (mac studio, Ventura, etc)
I'm getting a message of "this will be ignored" and then a crash file when opening Live. I think I'm doing everything right, but then again I'm new to mac so not sure.
Anything in preferences or whatnot that I need to change?
I'm getting a message of "this will be ignored" and then a crash file when opening Live. I think I'm doing everything right, but then again I'm new to mac so not sure.
Anything in preferences or whatnot that I need to change?
Live 11.x Suite, Push 2, AMD Ryzen 7900x @ 4.7 GHZ, Windows 11, 32 GB ram, Volt 2, Nektar T4 and Atom SQ.
Also a new lappy: i7 1269, 32 gigs of ram.
Also a new lappy: i7 1269, 32 gigs of ram.
Re: Record Arm on when selecting a track?
I've had this working for ages in Live 10 & 11. In Live 12 it doesn't work. I'll email Ableton about it. I'm afraid they have deprecated this option.