It does have ADAT. Ignore that message.
As for the shift -> arm. I was told by m-audio support that ableton has not built this into the mackie HUI support. I'm not sure what this really means, but they said it will be supported in one of the next updates.
I am talking about exclusive mode here. Turning off exclusive lets you arm multiple tracks sure, but exclusive is great for one press switching of the armed tracks. If I need to arm multiples, I hold down shift and press arm on several tracks. I would run in exclusive mode all the time if the Project I/O supported it.
For now the workaround is to hold down control on the computer keyboard (if your keyboard is close enough to the project i/o).
M-Audio Projectmix I/O ?
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Magnetotron
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This may sound foolish, but I somehow got exclusive arming working. I don't know how exactly but I believe it to be one of two things.
1. I loaded live the other day and it said my preference cfg file was corrupted by another version of live and had to recreate it.
2. Because of point 1 I had to go an choose all my audio / midi settings again, and I noticed that there were specific entries in the control surface midi in /out for "Project I/O Control Surface MIDI". I think I used these the first time I set it up, but I don't know for sure.
At any rate, everything seemed to operate as normal, however when I went to demonstrate to a friend that shift -> arm or alt -> arm didn't arm multiple tracks, alt -> arm did indeed work!
My appologies.
1. I loaded live the other day and it said my preference cfg file was corrupted by another version of live and had to recreate it.
2. Because of point 1 I had to go an choose all my audio / midi settings again, and I noticed that there were specific entries in the control surface midi in /out for "Project I/O Control Surface MIDI". I think I used these the first time I set it up, but I don't know for sure.
At any rate, everything seemed to operate as normal, however when I went to demonstrate to a friend that shift -> arm or alt -> arm didn't arm multiple tracks, alt -> arm did indeed work!
My appologies.
On my system too. Alt-Rec and Alt-Solo work even if you have exclusive set in the behaviors preference. I haven't found anything Shift does.Magnetotron wrote: At any rate, everything seemed to operate as normal, however when I went to demonstrate to a friend that shift -> arm or alt -> arm didn't arm multiple tracks, alt -> arm did indeed work!
Overall, I'm really really impressed with this piece of kit. It's well built, and it just works. It needs better documentation, however. Fortunately the Live Mode seems quite well done.
It's no wonder M-Audio is now bundling with Live. Who needs ProTools? (I briefly tried the ProTools M-Powered demo. One real limitation is that ProTools M-Powered won't even start if it can't find the M-Audio device. That seems like it could be a major hassle if you have it on your laptop and want to work with some tracks when you aren't at your ProjectMix. Also apparently ProTools M-Powered doesn't do direct monitoring.)
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Magnetotron
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Indeed! I am totally impressed. It's a nice clean simple interface that just works! No complicated setup, no weird mode changes to get into hidden functions. Everything is on the surface and there are no buttons that I don't use.
I thought 'shift' was dead too, but try shift -> play to continue playback from the current position (oh don't get me started).
The 2 pages in the manual about Live is a bit lame, and obviously m-audio's support sucks monkey butts, like come on... ok I made a mistake that it did work, but don't agree with me and tell me that it will be supported later! WTF! Is that guy getting paid 6 bucks an hour or what?
I thought 'shift' was dead too, but try shift -> play to continue playback from the current position (oh don't get me started).
The 2 pages in the manual about Live is a bit lame, and obviously m-audio's support sucks monkey butts, like come on... ok I made a mistake that it did work, but don't agree with me and tell me that it will be supported later! WTF! Is that guy getting paid 6 bucks an hour or what?