Disable space bar button?

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Mk
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Disable space bar button?

Post by Mk » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:56 am

anyone else think its a good idea? all it has to be is a red/green dot under the stop & play buttons that toggles between lock (red) and unlock (green)... or however you guys want to make it, i think blue LEDs are always better...

i only ask because i pressed the space bar instead of enter to launch a clip, in my room, thankfully, and i thought, if im over 3000 bars into into a set thats has been continuously playing, that spacebar should know not to interrupt...

:?:

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Post by Johnisfaster » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:14 am

I'm told there are 3rd party programs that can disable spacebar. do some searches in the tips and tricks section maybe you'll come up with it.
It was as if someone shook up a 6 foot can of blood soda and suddenly popped the top.

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Post by hambone1 » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:15 am

Or a folded-up piece of paper under the spacebar.

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Post by Johnisfaster » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:50 am

ive had a couple of the keys on my powerbook come popping off for no reason and it's really hard to get them back on so putting paper under them just seems like I'm asking them to pop off again :)
It was as if someone shook up a 6 foot can of blood soda and suddenly popped the top.

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Post by hambone1 » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:18 am

There should be a more elegant solution. A 'disable space bar' option in Live would be great.

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Post by robin » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:26 am

hambone1 wrote:There should be a more elegant solution. A 'disable space bar' option in Live would be great.
i agree. i use a piece of paper too.

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Post by longjohns » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:07 pm

here's one way:

activate 'sync' for one of your midi interfaces in preferences

now, after you start playback, hit the EXT button. the stop and start of the transport will be disabled until you disable the EXT. you can still punch in and out of record.

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Post by MrYellow » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:14 pm

Send us a msg for the program to blockspace.

Also added that code to a new program that uses MIDIOx to translate key
combinations (Ctrl + Alt + A etc) to MIDI out.

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Post by Nixon » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:16 pm

Send us a msg for the program to blockspace.
is this available for a intelmac??

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Post by MrYellow » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:17 pm

Fuck macs.... Who would write programs for those 2% of ppl :-P

Well maybe not 2% of Live users :-)

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Post by ikke » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:36 pm

haha for real man I have a ompaq P3 600mhz, 256mb mem laptop and it performs better, more stable than a powerbook 1.25ghz! hehee + the hardware on the powerbooks seem to fail with everybody I know. Everybody that has a mac (video/audio artists and graphic designers) regret their purchase
pc all the wee 8)
even pro tools runs better on a decent compatible pc


now, back on topic! :wink:

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Post by Nixon » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:41 pm

i'll just run windows on my mac then to run the program :roll:


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Post by rundll » Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:29 pm

ikke wrote:haha for real man I have a ompaq P3 600mhz, 256mb mem laptop and it performs better, more stable than a powerbook 1.25ghz! hehee + the hardware on the powerbooks seem to fail with everybody I know. Everybody that has a mac (video/audio artists and graphic designers) regret their purchase
pc all the wee 8)
even pro tools runs better on a decent compatible pc


now, back on topic! :wink:
Take it to the playground boy.

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