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While useful on occasion, I'd never use this.

Anybody tried Live 9 and know if it supports this?

It does not.

Brookwood wrote:I'm absolutely flummoxed that I can't set the record mode to wait for a midi note to start recording. I was doing this with Vision in the MID EIGHTIES!! So for the rest of my life I have to either wait for a countoff and/or edit the beginning of the bar? That is extremely poor work-flow, and SO SIMPLE to implement. Please tell me I'm wrong and there is such a feature.

MIDIMAP note #n to rec button or clicp rec launch, tah daw

miekwave wrote:MIDIMAP note #n to rec button or clicp rec launch, tah daw

how does this wait for you to play a note to start recording?

JuanSOLO wrote:

miekwave wrote:MIDIMAP note #n to rec button or clicp rec launch, tah daw

how does this wait for you to play a note to start recording?

This is a cheap workaround, but not a perm solution. If you want to Midi Note record wait for note, assign your FIRST midi note (that you wont be actually playing) to the rec launch button, and set count in to instant. For example, if you have a 2 octive keyboard, and you are not playing bottom C, assign C to rec launch on instant rec mode.

Well, I guess that's better than nothing at all -- but I think a proper implementation would be welcomed. Nice hack, miekwave.

Thanks for the idea, but I dont see that as even a feasible workaround.
The note you map is not the one you play, because mapping a note disables it's ability to play. I understand you'd use it as a trigger so to speak, but the idea of wait for note is that the first note you actually play is the trigger.
I'd rather map some other knob or button, or better yet use M4L or Bomes to "wait for note/trigger"

Nevertheless, seeing Ableton implement such a feature would be the best option.

I'm not in my studio, but think this should work. Place the device as the first device in your effect chain on a midi track. Arm the track. Set the "Slot No" to whatever slot you want to record into and toggle the device on. Start playing. I set it so that immediately after recording is armed, the device will turn itself off and become totally transparent. I tried sending some midi into Live internally from Logic to test and it appears it begins recording slightly after the note is played in, but at very worst, the first note may need to be moved after recording. Hope it helps...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/302 ... _Note.amxd

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I brought a Push and started using Live hoping to do just this. I'm Very disappointed that it doesn't work.

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I brought a Push and started using Live hoping to do just this. I'm Very disappointed that it doesn't work.

you should have bought M4L instead.

Helpfull

Coming up on two years, still no sign of this basic, extremely useful feature.

There is no wait for MIDI in Live 9 yet ?