Get the current values of all MIDI mapped objects in Live
Sep 06 2012 | 1:38 pm
Hi all!
For many years I've been annoyed with the lack of visual feedback from Live to my various footcontrollers (used both FCB1010 and the SoftStep). I want to rely only on what the lights on my pedals tell me and not having to check my computer to be sure, but the way it is now I just don't trust that what I'm seeing in front of me on the floor is actually what's going on in Live. To conquer this I thought I would make a MFL patch which could poll for all necessary values (that is all MIDI mapped objects) at a given rate and consequently send these values out to the controllers. Hence my question is (as the title says): is it possible to get query the API for the values of all MIDI mapped objects?
- Sep 06 2012 | 1:39 pmI will of course also welcome any other suggestions to solve the issue with lack of visual feedback
- Sep 06 2012 | 4:14 pmI think no MIDI-Map Object in Live ... but you can make "Max MIDI Effect(because audio track cannot send midi out in native way)" to observermost of property of anything in LiveSet then you can works & mapping to your desire midi msg...this may work well only if you already have a "LiveSet" that you have constructed and work with it.
- Sep 06 2012 | 7:16 pmIf I understand you correctly, you mean that I will create an live.observe instance for each of my MIDI mapped objects and listen to them individually? If so, I have already thought of that as a last resort, but it's not a very clever solution since it involves a lot of ugly "manual programming" and will not be very portable (that is, not portable at all). Please correct me if I misunderstood your suggestion.I haven't used the API with JavaScript yet - perhaps someone who has can fill me in if any such functions are available there?
- Sep 06 2012 | 7:34 pmLooking through the documentation one more time I noticed there is an object class called "MidiMap", but it is not mentioned anywhere else in the documentation!? What is this mystery object?
