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Hi, I'm having a weird problem where the red "back to arrangement" button lights up when I'm playing the arrangement, even after I click it (multiple times). I guess it has something to do with the automation that I recorded…

live 8.2.7
synth: camel audio alchemy 1.25.0
controller: m-audio oxygen8 v2

I used alchemy's midi learn feature to map its performance knobs to the knobs on my oxygen controller. Then I recorded automation on my track by using the punch-in/punch-out recording. Now when I play it back in arrange view, as soon as it gets to the automation the red "back to arrangement" light comes back on.

I don't have any clips in session view at all, and I've hit "stop clips" multiple times to be sure. Basically the red light comes on, I click it, it goes dim for a split second and comes back on as soon as it hits the next automation breakpoint.

Any ideas? I'll send something to ableton support but they seem to be a lot slower than this forum…

edit: I've unplugged all of my midi controllers to see if somehow there was a midi feedback loop. The problem persists.

My guess is that your controller is sending some data that changes the setting away from the value set by automation - either randomly because the knob is on the edge between two values, or because of controller feedback settings in Live's options.

E.G. My controller keyboard sends mod wheel messages even when I don't touch the mod wheel