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Thank you. It does work. But i don't really like this solution...a bit scary and not elegant. A bit like using a caterpillar to move a sand grain.
Anyway here is the patch resized for 13" macbooks, if anyone is interested


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That's not very elegant indeed, but I have no other idea right now.

Just an idea.. can't you use midistroke or osculator to assign to midi the shift-click behavior ?

That's basically what this patch does.

A new element to consider. I've just realised that it works as desired if you keymap the session record O button to a upper case letter like "M" (with shift-m in keymap mode).
That's nice but not perfect.
Let's try to strike it with aka.keyboard now.

That's good news, thanks. Less scary than using aka.mouse...
By the way i just had an answer from ableton. They say they understand the issue and will submit the idea. Finger crossed !

Yep! It works, here it is with M mapped to the rec button

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Isn't it a crazy workaround!

error, edit. Removed.

Haha i've read your message before you erase it, i went mad !

anyway, working perfectly with aka.keyboard. In this case, mapping the letter O.

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wow, and made my patch before i saw you already posted yours !

Haha i've read your message before you erase it, i went mad !

J'ai mis les épinards avant le beurre. Ou la charrue dans les boeufs. C'est selon. Ca aurait été drôle quand même.

hmm... i'm not very good ad M4l...

How exactly do i use this patch?
noob...

You have at first to download aka.keyboard external.
Place it in max 6 folder's 'max externals'.
Then open an empty audio or midi m4l patch. copy the the code below. Paste it in the patcher. Save the patch.
Now Key-map the 'session record button' to the letter 'O'.
The button in the device is midi mappable and should arm the OVR without recording clips.

YAY!!!!

Thank you so much!!!
It's working!!!


do you guys know, if its staable enough for stage?

How ironic that a missing feature that required a M4L workaround still requires a M4L workaround even after it's been implemented.