Assigning macro without loosing individual parameter control
I love Ableton, with max4live and ClyphX scripts, but I really miss something important : the ability to assign parameters to a macro, and to keep control on those parameters, even with the ability to assign them to other macros. It would be a plus to assign those parameters in a relative way, like in Bitwig, Kontakt, or like morph groups in the Nord G2. And, the ability to add memory of that macro would also be nice. Could max4live be useful to find a transformation of Ableton's behavior?
Since the automation sends values to parameters, wouldn't it be possible to make a sort of instant automation. Or a dummy clip that wouldn't be played in time with the sequencer. It could be read dynamically, I mean it would be controlled by a knob, from its beginning till its end, without any timing, just the position of the knob. At 0, it would be at its beginning, at 127, at its end, and between those values, it would be in a relative position... forward or backward, exactly how we tweak the knob. It would leave free the parameters when we don't move the knob. But maybe this is really impossible with ?
Thank you for your opinion
Are you asking about being able to assign a parameter to a macro, but still be able to adjust it with the mouse? Like once you start adjusting the macro knob, it grabs the parameter, and then once you stop moving the knob it releases the parameter?
You could do this with some live API wizardry I would imagine. It would involve dynamically assigning and un-assigning parameters to live.remotes. Dealing with relative parameter values would be have to be taken into account as well.
Yes, it is one of the goals : to be able to change a parameter alone, even if it is already mapped to a macro. Another goal is to assign the same parameter to 2 different macros. Sure, it could have contradictory datas sent to the parameter... but this doesn't seem to be a problem, since it can be the same when with the mouse we change a MIDI assigned parameter.