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Hi!
Is there a way to choose one controller which will always control the active parameter. For example if I move the volume of a track with the mouse it controls the volume, if I move the send of a track it controls the send.
I have push at home but not in my office where my old akai keyboard is.
At the moment I have a track finished and want to add automation. So I could just choose the parameter, hit record and always use the same knob.

Yes with Max4Live, there is a selected_parameter id that be then used to create a live.object you can control with a dial...

Cheers
D

Just midi map in the moment?

Thanks. Haven't used max 4 live except the already finished devices yet
Have to start getting myself into it at one point.
Yes mapping could be done at the time when it is needed but as I know myself I would forget to unmap half of the time and end up messing up everything by sending controller values to different parameters at a time.

FYI- Larose made a Max For Live device that turns the Master volume knob on Push into a "speed dial" that controls the last parameter selected. Works great.

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... speed-dial

If I'm not mistaken, utilizing the old User Remote Script and assigning only one single cc instead of the regular 8 also does this. Well, it did. It's been a while since I've tried.

Figure, if this has already been bumped, I might as well throw that out there

I'd actually like to try that. How exactly do you set that up? Is that just for Push?

There is also another similar max for live device called One by live.me. It's nice because you can midi map it to any controller. The thing I wish both m4L devices had is changing the last selected parameter on a plugin VST.

Does the remote script method do that? If not, maybe there is some other way?

You'd have to assign parameters to the vst and then click on them...

Cheers
D

Okay, so I guess I hadn't done a lot initially with the user remote script method and kinda got it wrong.

It only applies to unmapped vsts, not to any and every knob in the program. For that, I think that I used the max option that you linked.

The way the User Remote option works is that it simply does the typical blue hand control. If nothing is mapped in a vst, the very first 'slot' is available to be controlled by the first input control for blue hand control. Whatever is IN that first slot always changes depending on the last thing you've adjusted in (most but not all) vsts.

So it only works for vsts. Not devices, not racks, not pans/sends/volumes.

I think I had a pretty good experience with the one knob. I hadn't used it recently since updating to a new computer.

Still... A very helpful tip. Thanks!

Here is one M4L device which automatically can take and respond to the value the newly selected parameter has - this is a fix to the issue of having a dial/fader from your MIDI controller not matching the values of the parameter you want to control: https://blog.abletondrummer.com/how-to- ... ontroller/