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hey
is there a way to make new track with certain parameters ? cause i would not like to allways repeat these same tasks. for example if i make new midi track i have to allways choose right input and right output. it would be nice to be able to use something like keyboard shortcuts that would make certain type of track. like alt+4 would make midi track with output set to midi channel 4. and same goes for audio tracks. i use live mainly with external hardware so this would really speed up my workflow. i have live 7 (because of vitaminL ) and maschine, so i could maybe do this with midi ?? but how ??? im also famliar with autohotkey so i could make a script with it for do these things but i can´t cause theres no ableton shortcuts to do these things.. i HAS to be mouse (like too many times in ableton)
hope you can help me !

This might help you out a bit

http://www.heatercore.net/2010/04/template.html

I use it all the time for input settings. Just drag in tracks that already have your proper settings, and you can use them again in the future. Helps me out quite a bit for multiple mics/midi routing setups.

Hope this helps

With the Mackie Control template that comes with Maschine you can control the in/out settings for each track from the hardware without touching the mouse.

thanks! i think that i´ll try to do with maschine perhaps i edit pads to do some of that stuff
it could be nice if i could select for example midi channel with my 16 pads etc.

bubu baba wrote:it could be nice if i could select for example midi channel with my 16 pads etc.

Well, that would be asking a lot from a device that wasn't meant to be a Live controller. Other than perhaps something that interfaces with Max for Live, I would imagine a solution from the likes of touchAble or Cliip might be your best bet as far as getting hands-on control over such minute details of Live, short of learning python and rolling your own.