Imposing functions on tracks by track name
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:13 am
This may sound more complicated than it is. I am using dummy clips on my drum group. For my delay dummy clip, I would like Max to automatically find the track titled "Kik" and stop that track when the Delay dummy clip is selected. As a result, I will just be delaying the upper frequency percussion. This would be easy to do if I were to know that my Kik track will always be in the same position in my session. But if I move my Kik track for some reason, then it will be muting the track ID that the kick drum used to be on. I will have to go adjust each path in the Max patch before it will work properly again.
So basically what I'm asking is: Can you find out what a track ID is based on the name of the track? Can I query a list of all track names and find out which track ID is called "Kik", and then have max act out its duties accordingly on that track? I am just thinking about saving myself a lot of time down the road in this session, as well as when I want to start a new session. I may want to have a different layout but still use the same features of my patch.
So basically what I'm asking is: Can you find out what a track ID is based on the name of the track? Can I query a list of all track names and find out which track ID is called "Kik", and then have max act out its duties accordingly on that track? I am just thinking about saving myself a lot of time down the road in this session, as well as when I want to start a new session. I may want to have a different layout but still use the same features of my patch.