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With Futility you can (un)solo, (un)mute, (un)arm, (un)collapse the currently selected track, and add many other missing shortcuts.
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Enjoy!

Updated to v3.3.
Users, check your inbox and spams for the Gumroad email containing the new device.

v4.1 is here

fUtility needed some cleaning to prevent adding unwanted steps to Live's undo history. You don't need to undo twice an added track for example, and many little things like that. It should also stop asking you if you want to save changes when closing a set where you didn't touch anything, most of the time.

Another important fix is the un/Mute one. There was always a problem in this area no matter what I changed and fixed over the years... Well, I've finally found the solution!! To put it simply the problem was that:

when solving the kill/mute buttons blocking Live's undo history, it would make the device unmute every muted tracks when re-opening the set

when solving the "unmute every muted tracks when re-opening the set", it would make using the kill/mute buttons block the undo history

what a fucking headache, for years! Frankly, the solution doesn't make sense (there's definitely something wrong with Live's track mute implementation), but it works, so cheers!

I changed the GUI too. It's not really better tbh, but hey it takes less space.

I also added a shortcut button to close the device/clip view(s) (equivalent to cmd+alt+L /Shift+F12 that has been removed in L12).

Some nice new features in the new 4.2.1 update:

- Duplicate Clip (Session view)
It works like the Duplicate button on Push. While your editing/filling a midi clip, press this shortcut and it will duplicate your clip and select this duplicate. That way you can quickly iterate variations of a clip (hey, cheers Generators and Transformers!) without ever leaving the piano roll. Such a time and mouse movements/clicks saver.

- Clip Length x2 (midi clips only)
It’s like the Duplicate button in the midi clip editor panel. Yeahhh!!! Doubling the length of your clip from a shortcut is now possible!

- Devices AB’ing
Ever wanted to quickly compare Saturator VS Roar, or Delay against Echo, or Kontakt vs Impulse etc?
This shortcut will bypass device A while enabling device B, and vice versa. Device A is always the currently selected one (i.e a device is selected by clicking its title bar, not by tweaking one of its parameters). Fantastic!

Just bought it. It's absolutely awesome.

I just wish I could move and close the window with the mouse.

chapelier fou wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 03, 2024 10:55 am

I just wish I could move and close the window with the mouse.

I'm confident the workflow is good with this implementation but let's see how you feel about it after a moment using it. I only had a very few persons asking for this at some point, but it looks like they all got used to this design in the end.

It causes serious Max Window pollution.

chapelier fou wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2024 3:28 pm

It causes serious Max Window pollution.

Yeah I know. These are due to quite a lot of workarounds which are essential to make the device works. Some of those workarounds becomes useless over the years with M4L improvements and I try to tidy up things with every update when possible, but some are still unavoidable.
While annoying for people who patch in M4L, these are harmless to Live.

This looks amazing.

Valiumdupeuple wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 16, 2024 3:45 pm

While annoying for people who patch in M4L, these are harmless to Live.

Yeah, totally. Are you sure there's nothing you can do about it ?