Cycling 74 » Topic: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L? http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:13:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-59002 <![CDATA[How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-59002 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:49:46 +0000 jomtones I’d like to add something like Hawtins’ Kapture to my live set, but only for track arming / un-arming. Unfortunately the Kapture patch fails to record track arming, so I need to make something new but have no idea where to start! Is there a plug into the Live API for arming tracks?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211955 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211955 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:15:45 +0000 protocol Jomtones,

I dont know how Kapture works, but you can get into Live API to access the track’s arming. Here is an example where if you drop this into any track it will automatically find the arm and map to the button arm. Just connect whatever you want to change it to the button itself. For instance connect a send or receive to it to change it.

Here is the example:

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Good luck,
Protocol

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211956 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211956 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:59:24 +0000 jomtones Wow, that looks pretty cool … I haven’t got the skills to build a preset bank and send array myself, but maybe I’ll suggest it to the Kapture team as an addon .. surely its got to be useful to someone more than just me!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211957 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211957 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:52:31 +0000 protocol No i agree with you all the way. As it would set up my perforamce bank really well.

If you need to create something in the meantime that would get picked up by Kapture you could just create a device based on the one I sent you (almost identical infact) except you need to make sure the arm box is being displayed in presentation mode, name it what you want to name it as and save it. Then load it onto each of your tracks. Kapture should find the parameter under its device section (if checked) and save that. Theoretically it should update and modify arming accordingly.
You could create one device to do a set number of tracks aswell.

Downside = you may need to drop the device in every single track in your set.
Upside = since you dont know much about preset banks, its really easy to do, and would work in the meantime before they would update it (if they update it)

If you need clarity of the idea just ask further and i could easily create the device for you and post it Unless someone else on the forum is going to change the program itself.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211958 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211958 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:42:04 +0000 jomtones Ah yes I catch your drift! This would be great but I’ve found Kapture slows WAY down when you ask it to capture DEVICES, not just mixer settings, and as I’m trying to do this on stage I need it to be very responsive.

I’ve got a feeling that I’m better off just changing tracks manually for now, but thanks for the suggestion!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211959 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211959 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:09:17 +0000 jomtones Hey protocol I just had an inspiration on how to get this working – perhaps I can control it with clip automation? Was just trying to test it but I couldn’t get started with making your device work – where do I attach a Live button to to start it?

Thanks!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211960 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211960 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:44:59 +0000 Stephane Morisse If you just pasted the compressed patch in a patcher, you have to send a bang to the loadmess object to initialize it. And I think the live.text object (with the arm label) should be midi mappable and acts as a toggle, so I don’t see the point of attaching a button to turn it on /off.
Somenone please correct me if I’m wrong on any point, I’m also a beginner.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211961 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211961 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:55:57 +0000 jomtones Ah ok … so I’ll have to send a bang to ‘loadmess’ every time I start the project?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211962 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211962 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:15:57 +0000 jomtones Hmm not having much luck with this so far … I’ve tried attaching buttons to both the live.text object and the loadmess thing but neither seem to do anything.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211963 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211963 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:53:26 +0000 jomtones Bump! Can anyone help with getting this working? Really stuck …

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211964 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211964 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:06:35 +0000 jomtones Got a parallel thread on this over at the Ableton forum … still not getting very far with this M4L patch though! http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=171133

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211965 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211965 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:30:47 +0000 broc From the discussion so far it seems that you don’t understand the basics of M4L.
Also, I think you should explain better what you actually want to achieve..

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211966 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211966 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:45:00 +0000 Stephane Morisse Broc, am I right about this ?
‘If you just pasted the compressed patch in a patcher, you have to send a bang to the loadmess object to initialize it. And I think the live.text object (with the arm label) should be midi mappable and acts as a toggle, so I don’t see the point of attaching a button to turn it on /off.’

Jomtones, you should read the reference files for ‘loadmess’ and live.text, you would get what I mean.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211967 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211967 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:56:11 +0000 broc Stephane, your statement is correct. But it should be noted that the loadbang is only needed if you want to initialize the patch while in edit mode. When the device is saved and reloaded into a Live set, it’s not needed anymore since loadmess will be called automatically.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211968 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211968 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:48:41 +0000 jomtones broc – what I want to be able to achieve is changing record-arm states with clip-launching. I’m hoping with this M4L patch I’ll be able to do it.

So far I haven’t been able to get it to do a damn thing but I’ll have another go at making the ‘arm’ label MIDI mappable since sending a bang to it didn’t seem to do anything.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211969 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211969 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:03:06 +0000 jomtones Hmmm … same result. The ‘live’ label lights up a healthy red when clicked but doesn’t seem to do anything else. MIDI mapping it doesn’t help either. Can anyone confirm if this patch really works?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211970 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211970 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:06:23 +0000 broc It would be relevant to check the M4L device that you have created from the patch.
So you may send the corresponding .amxd file as attachment.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211971 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211971 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:10:59 +0000 Stephane Morisse Jomtones, It works for me…

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211972 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211972 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:32:22 +0000 Stephane Morisse “But it should be noted that the loadbang is only needed if you want to initialize the patch while in edit mode. When the device is saved and reloaded into a Live set, it’s not needed anymore since loadmess will be called automatically.” That’s what I wanted to underline to Jomtones.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211973 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211973 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:25:47 +0000 jomtones Thanks for the help guys, time is short before the next rehearsal so I give up for now! madlab over on the Ableton forum recommended Clyphx which looks promising so I’m going to give that a go before anything else.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211974 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211974 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:21:40 +0000 Will On this same issue, I am able to arm/disarm by manually sending messages, but for some reason it does not work automatically. I have set a system that listens to the transport time and then, depending other conditions, will selectively arm, fire, and disarm clips. Anyone have any insight? Look at ifmatch_record patcher for the specific problem.

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211975 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211975 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:19:16 +0000 ShelLuser Will… Can’t comment on your patch since it wasn’t real fun to look at. No offense intended, and its most certainly not a comment aimed at the quality of the patch. Its just that it contained so much extra unrelated stuff… that can become really distracting to get to the actual problem. Because although you pointed at a specific patcher object obviously that’s not where the cause of the problem has to be.

Test cases are best setup as tiny as possible so that its easier for others to look at and to identify a possible problem (and its cause).

Alas…

My guess: have you looked at the Max window when you tried your patch? If a patch triggers an error then that’s where it’ll be. Now, I didn’t go over the entire patch and its separate subpatchers, but my guess is that your Max window gave you an error. Something in the likes of “Changes cannot be triggered by notifications” (or something similar, this is from the top of my head).

Here’s a small test case which arms/disarms track 1 on every beat. As you can see this can be made to work. Pay extra attention to the “deferlow” object in there.

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211976 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211976 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:45:47 +0000 Will Thanks ShelUser. I totally understand that my patch was too much information for testing, so thanks for your help even after. I’ll keep my posts more concise in the future. And yes, I eventually found the deferlow object in another post, though I have yet to really understand how it works.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211977 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211977 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:09:58 +0000 Will New problem (but really the same problem). I’ve encountered the same error with something that is structured like the patch I’ve copied below. Unfortunately for problem solving purposes, the patch below actually works, so I assume that the problem lies within the deeper web of my larger patch. In the larger patch, when the Live metronome updates the counter, which selects for a match and then must launch two clips at once, it only launches one. However, when I update the counter manually, it will launch both. Worst of all, there is no error message in the Max window. Could someone explain what deferlow actually does, and the effect of having multiple deferlow’s in one patch? Does it screw up the priority of messages?

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211978 <![CDATA[Re: How to arm/un-arm tracks with M4L?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/how-to-armun-arm-tracks-with-m4l/#post-211978 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:13:17 +0000 Stephane Morisse Will, in your last patch, I don’t get what you want to achieve. In Live, you can’t launch two clips on the same track at the same time, which is what would theoretically happen if you send a ‘call fire’ message to the two [live.objects].
I made some changes to your patch to make it alternately launch clip_slots 0 and 1 on track 1 on the 1st and 3rd time of each measure. Is that something like that you’re after ? I also added a [+ 1] after the [live.observer] because the first time was counted as 0.

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