G'Luck w/that. I've been round and round with it. I've tried the normal avenues (live.this_device, freebang, closebang), triggering things from Python through observers in either js or with raw Max observers. No dice. I might be missing something obvious, but I've been pretty exhaustive about it. [live.this_device] should be the answer, but it won't do what I need it to. Perhaps you'll have better luck with it. (In my case, this problem has the most pertinence when moving between edit and live modes with patches, but I know what you're referring to).

Seriously, if anyone has a solution, I'd love to hear it. If not, it would be a great new feature ;) I know, however, this is in the Abe's court.

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I suspect that Live simply doesn't communicate the 'closing set' operation to the M4L devices such that they could send a closebang as required. Strictly speaking this would be a bug.

Thanks for the replies. Maybe I will ask on the Ableton forums in the hopes that an Ableton dev will notice, because yeah it just sounds like a major limitation / bug in Max for Live right now. Oh well. It's annoying but not the end of the world.