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Controlling non-MIDI-mappable parameters in Ableton

sdh2125 — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:45:53 +0000

Hi all,
I’m relatively new to Max for Live and am mainly interested in its possibilities for hardware integration. I want to control some functions in Ableton that are not by default MIDI mappable with a controller; for instance, I want to scrub back and forth in the timeline with an encoder or zoom in and out of playhead position in the arrangement view.

After talking to Live tech support and doing some research, I came across this:

http://www.cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/m4l-ref/m4l_live_object_model.html

this page references some commands like zoom_view and scrub_by, but I have no idea how to access those or deal with them through Max for Live.

Any help is appreciated!

Re: Controlling non-MIDI-mappable parameters in Ableton

S4racen — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:44:12 +0000

Necrobump for this, does anyone know the syntax to get the zoom_view working?

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Cheers
D

Re: Controlling non-MIDI-mappable parameters in Ableton

broc — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:35:39 +0000

According to LOM the syntax should be like this.

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Re: Controlling non-MIDI-mappable parameters in Ableton

S4racen — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:41:36 +0000

Awesome, thanks i’ll test when i get home!!

Cheers
D

Re: Controlling non-MIDI-mappable parameters in Ableton

S4racen — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:31:32 +0000

Sadly thats exactly what i had, it doesn’t work… ANyone from Cycling can confirm this is a bug??

Cheers
D

Re: Controlling non-MIDI-mappable parameters in Ableton

broc — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:56:50 +0000

Interestingly, it works for me when using ‘Arranger’ as view_name but NOT with ‘Detail/Clip’.

So it’s obviously a bug (or incomplete implementation).

Re: Controlling non-MIDI-mappable parameters in Ableton

S4racen — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:48:53 +0000

Interesting, as it states it works for Detail/Clip doesn’t it?

This should be implemented in the current version before we start getting asked for money to upgrade to 6!

Cheers
D

Reply To: Controlling non-MIDI-mappable parameters in Ableton

basvlk — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:35:26 +0000

Did you get this to work with live9 / max 6.1?

Reply To: Controlling non-MIDI-mappable parameters in Ableton

mooter — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 03:28:35 +0000

Been trying to get clip zooming and scrolling and it’s not working. It says it should but I really don’t think they have it implemented.

Scrolling the browser is working great though:)
But It would be really great to scroll and zoom inside the clip. If you can do it with the mouse, you should do it with max.