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Is there a way to make a shortcut key to open the first midi instrument in the channel you have selected? It would be nice to be able to select a channel, press one button and have my synth pop up (assuming it's the first midi in the channel), rather than the daunting task of mouse clicking.

Any help would be great. I'm on 8.1.5 on a pc and I don't have max, however if it's doable in max that would be nice to know.

in the prefs...
enable 'auto hide plugin window'
and also 'auto-open plugin custom editor'

..leave the plugin windows open...
it'll hide/reveal the relevant plugin for each channel

Well, the point would be to quickly open and close the device when the channel is selected, I don't want selecting the channel to be the trigger to open the device.

What does the auto-open plugin custom editor do? Not at my music computer atm.

U can also toggle the plug-in window to close/open by cmnd+alt+p (ctrl in windows).

0fps wrote:U can also toggle the plug-in window to close/open by cmnd+alt+p (ctrl in windows).

Thanks, didn't know this

^^^ ctrl-alt-p stopped working in windows a long time ago

3dot... wrote:^^^ ctrl-alt-p stopped working in windows a long time ago

Command + option + P doesn't work in OS X either, at least not until you manually click the plugin editor button every time you start Live because it only shows/hides plug-in windows that are already open.

I wonder why Live can't remember open plug-in windows when it launches.