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Hi, I'm a Python developer who's VERY interested in Ableton's remote scripts functionality. How would I find out more information like documentation or perhaps write-ups of Ableton's proprietary Python interpreter? I've heard that it omits a lot of the Python standard library, and I was hoping there was some central location to find out about this kind of stuff so I won't have to reverse engineer the scripts I've been given.

Hanz Petrov's site is probably the best starting point.

is there anything similar for ruby

Similar stuff for Live 9:
http://julienbayle.net/ableton-live-9-m ... e-scripts/

I'm also interested in an API that would control Live, but something official, documented, that has chances to persist across present and future versions of Live. It could be a COM API, some SDK in C/C++, no matter, given it is not something that was hacked/reversed engineered/partially documented. The GUI of Live is almost unusable for me because too complex and fonts are too small, standard keyboard shortcuts in Live are insufficient (e.g., can only start/stop whole session, not clips, no way to mute/slow/toggle tracks, configure I/Os, etc.) and reassignment works only by project, while this would need to be profiled-based. Push and APC controllers are great but take too much space. I could imagine some software tool could interact with Live using the same API as Push and APC while offering a GUI with bigger icons/fonts. This is probably a too large undertaking, probably will not work in the end, but I would like to explore and investigate if it is at all possible.

Guys how far did you get into the interpreter works? viewtopic.php?f=3&t=234953