Control selected track \w keyboard shortcuts

[wiffbi]

Hey, I finally turned the alpha-preview into a full version 1.2.9, which is available for download now und compatible with Live 9.

http://stc.wiffbi.com/download/

Hope you like it.

P.S.: A litte user-requested feature made it into the release as well: master volume control. MIDI CC 80 (rel2comp) or CC 81 (absolute).

[Emerah]

Thanks truly one of the best scripts for Live.

the download file is still numbered 1.2.8. I think will cause a bit of confusion.

[wiffbi]

@Emerah: Ah, thanks for pointing that out! It was actually the wrong link. I fixed the link to the correct version 1.2.9.

[wiffbi]

@Funk N. Furter: depending on what has focus in Live, the arrow keys do different things. E.g. if you click in the browser, you can use the arrow keys to navigate the folders/files. Having the ctrl-arrow keys available, you can navigate Session view without having to think about what has focus in Live’s GUI.

[Peifco]

Hello

I have brc2000 controller which I pretty much just want to use as a device control in Ableton. I was wondering if it would be just a matter of adding 16 cc controls in order to have a total of 32 knobs per bank. I see that there is a list that goes from 33 to 48 on the settings.py file.

Thanks for your help

[wiffbi]

@Peifco: yes, that is correct! You can simply add more CCs to that list in settings.py for device control. Technically there should not be a limit, but AFAIK from Live, 128 controls is the maximum.

If you add CCs that clash with existing ones, then you can deactivate any other actions in settings.py by adding a # at the beginning of the line.

Furthermore you can even define your own favorite mappings per device. Have a look at the top of settings.py, there is a short description in there. It is a lot of trial and error currently though.

If you need help with settings.py, let me know. I can do the changes for you, if you let me know how many and which CCs you want to control the device.

[LM6]

Victorypoint,
Would you be willing to post a few screenshots of your midi sync settings in Ableton, and the STC settings in the Softstep Editor?

LM6

[re:dream]

STC is great.

But the keyboard extension only works for Mac.
On the STC site, there is a note:

Not on Mac, Check out Windows integration

But the link does not lead anywhere.

How can I have selected track control shortcuts for a Windows environment?

Thanks

[wiffbi]

@The Finn: Thanks for pointing that out! I fixed the link on the homepage. The thing is, there is currently not a simple solution for Windows. You need some utility that converts keyboard shortcuts into MIDI – I have been told that Bome’s does this, but I cannot test it myself. If someone knows a way on Windows, please let us all know!

Btw. here is the not very useful (sorry!) text you will find regarding Windows integration:


Notes for Windows integration
Adding keyboard shortcuts to Windows

You need to install the SelectedTrackControl MIDI Remote Script.

To turn you computer keyboard into a MIDI-controller just like Kimidi does on Mac OS X, Bome’s Midi Translator Pro should be a good starting point. If you have created a configuration for it (or have another solution for turning keyboard input into MIDI on Windows) I would be happy, if you share it.

[re:dream]

Yeh STC rocks.

At the moment I have managed to get my AKAI LD8 edited so that it can handle most of the most common active track commands *not* catered for by Push. So I can limp along without Kimidi / Bomes for now.

[wiffbi]

So how does STC work when using the computer keyboard? If I press ctrl D, what's the chain of events? I know it uses KMIDI and Bomes. How does ctrl D end up with Live knowing what to do? Or the ctrl arrow keys thing? How is it talking to Live?

Thanks for the kind words. Regarding your question: STC, like any Control Surface Script in Live, reacts to MIDI commands. To make it work with the computer keyboard, one has to convert keystrokes to MIDI commands. Kimidi is a little app, that listens to global keyboard shortcuts (when Live is the frontmost app – also it can only listen to keyboard combos, so it is not a key-logger, only key combos with a modifier such as alt, ctrl, etc. are listened to) and when it receives a certain key combo, it then sends a corresponding MIDI message on its own virtual port (Kimidi OUT). Live then receives that MIDI message and forwards it to the STC-Control Surface Script, which itself interprets that MIDI message and executes whatever task is assigned to that message (e.g. solo selected track).

@The Finn: great to hear! I use also STC a lot with my LPD8 – especially the 8 knobs to control devices.

[victorypoint]

Hi wiffbi,

I'm still using Live 8 and want to ask you if there has been any fixes/updates to Live 9 Looper? You previously mentioned that Live Looper's API does not provide access to its multi-function button and control the song, set tempo, etc. I would upgrade to Live 9 and use STC with Looper if these issues were resolved.

-AJ

[wiffbi]

Hey AJ, I am sorry, nothing has changed regarding "Set and Follow song tempo" in Looper – it still does not work, when changing the state of the multi-function button via the API. I just double checked, it works when manually mapping the multi-function button, but not when triggered via the API. Should this actually be reported as a bug? Because basically, this is a bug! Where does one report bugs to Ableton?

[re:dream]

Here.

[victorypoint]

Darn. Well, wherever you report bugs, I'm sure Ableton would listen more to you (developers) than they would users. If you wouldn't mind reporting the Looper API bugs, that would be greatly appreciated. Maybe we can get these issues resolved in short order.

-AJ