Enjoy your fingers with Futility. Control selected track.

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Enjoy your fingers with Futility. Control selected track.

Post by Valiumdupeuple » Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:48 pm

With Futility you can (un)solo, (un)mute, (un)arm, (un)collapse the currently selected track, and add many other missing shortcuts.
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Enjoy!
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Re: Enjoy your fingers with Futility. Control selected track.

Post by Valiumdupeuple » Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:43 pm

Updated to v3.3.
Users, check your inbox and spams for the Gumroad email containing the new device.

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Re: Enjoy your fingers with Futility. Control selected track.

Post by Valiumdupeuple » Thu Dec 14, 2023 2:29 am

v4.1 is here

fUtility needed some cleaning to prevent adding unwanted steps to Live's undo history. You don't need to undo twice an added track for example, and many little things like that. It should also stop asking you if you want to save changes when closing a set where you didn't touch anything, most of the time.

Another important fix is the un/Mute one. There was always a problem in this area no matter what I changed and fixed over the years... Well, I've finally found the solution!! To put it simply the problem was that:

when solving the kill/mute buttons blocking Live's undo history, it would make the device unmute every muted tracks when re-opening the set

when solving the "unmute every muted tracks when re-opening the set", it would make using the kill/mute buttons block the undo history

😵‍💫 what a fucking headache, for years! Frankly, the solution doesn't make sense (there's definitely something wrong with Live's track mute implementation), but it works, so cheers!

I changed the GUI too. It's not really better tbh, but hey it takes less space.

I also added a shortcut button to close the device/clip view(s) (equivalent to cmd+alt+L /Shift+F12 that has been removed in L12).

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Re: Enjoy your fingers with Futility. Control selected track.

Post by Valiumdupeuple » Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:41 pm

Some nice new features in the new 4.2.1 update:

- Duplicate Clip (Session view)
It works like the Duplicate button on Push. While your editing/filling a midi clip, press this shortcut and it will duplicate your clip and select this duplicate. That way you can quickly iterate variations of a clip (hey, cheers Generators and Transformers!) without ever leaving the piano roll. Such a time and mouse movements/clicks saver.

- Clip Length x2 (midi clips only)
It’s like the Duplicate button in the midi clip editor panel. Yeahhh!!! Doubling the length of your clip from a shortcut is now possible!

- Devices AB’ing
Ever wanted to quickly compare Saturator VS Roar, or Delay against Echo, or Kontakt vs Impulse etc?
This shortcut will bypass device A while enabling device B, and vice versa. Device A is always the currently selected one (i.e a device is selected by clicking its title bar, not by tweaking one of its parameters). Fantastic!

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