Disable Track Delete
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Disable Track Delete
Anyone have any ideas how this might be achieved. Whilst it's happened a few times in rehearsal and in live Facebook feeds, on the weekend for the 1st time it happened in the middle of my friggin live set..... I deleted one of my main Midi tracks, one that I do 50% of my live keyboard playing with, and one that houses a set of 8 different plugins (selected for each track depending on what lines I play for that track).
I must have hit delete and then track, rather than Stop Clip and track...and bang....GONE!
Problem was I only realised at the start of the next track (I'm playing techno, so everything is crossfaded)...too many steps to undo.
Any bright ideas???
I must have hit delete and then track, rather than Stop Clip and track...and bang....GONE!
Problem was I only realised at the start of the next track (I'm playing techno, so everything is crossfaded)...too many steps to undo.
Any bright ideas???
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Re: Disable Track Delete
Nope, don’t think you can but can’t you just undo?
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Re: Disable Track Delete
Yo ucan press undo, provided you realise it as it happens. IN the middle of a live set, unless you are actively using that instrument at the time, you could be way down the track (sic)....as I was. I tried a few (many) undos, but it was taking me into crazy land with all sorts of parameter change sbeing undone!
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Re: Disable Track Delete
Probably best to just be mindful of where you mash the buttons. That, or get a knife and cut the button out like removing the windows key from a keyboard.
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Re: Disable Track Delete
ha. ha!!! be mindful and playing live techno... in the same sentence!!!!
Yeah, I have thought of that....just avoid the delete button!! but there are so many times I need it!!!!
Yeah, I have thought of that....just avoid the delete button!! but there are so many times I need it!!!!
Re: Disable Track Delete
You could use M4L to disable the delete button... but as you said you need it sometimes so I guess the best thing to do is to learn how to no press it accidentally, just you'd do on any instrument actually
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Re: Disable Track Delete
@jur agreed... the tricky thing is working out exactly what I have done when I do delete the track....to make sure I avoid that. Or probably working out all those occasions I do need to press delete, and make those even more conscious decisions.
...actually you have me thinking now with your reference ab
A bit clunky, but given the huge impact of deleting a track mid-live set...something I could live with. Can you point me to any resources where I could look into the disable delete button m4l idea.
Thx for the suggestion
...actually you have me thinking now with your reference ab
That's actually not such a bad idea....I could then have a m4l device that would require, reenabling the delete consciously when I needed to use it (and disabling immediately afterwards.
A bit clunky, but given the huge impact of deleting a track mid-live set...something I could live with. Can you point me to any resources where I could look into the disable delete button m4l idea.
Thx for the suggestion
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Re: Disable Track Delete
Thanks for the nudge in the right direction:
http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... 1905#12893
And it has an override factility to reenable the delete when I need it!
The perfect things already exists here:
http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... 1905#12893
And it has an override factility to reenable the delete when I need it!
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Re: Disable Track Delete
I can't seem to get that M4L device to work in Live 11. Do you still use it, or happen to have found a workaround? Thankssimplemusic wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:23 pmThanks for the nudge in the right direction:
The perfect things already exists here:
http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... 1905#12893
And it has an override factility to reenable the delete when I need it!