Dante

The is_recording and playing_status of the Clip Slots department seem to not be working.

I tried observing both audio and midi tracks, both of which have clips that are playing: has_clip always correctly reports 1, is_recording 0, playing_status 0.

For the audio track I am recording a clip by firing an empty clipslot, so looking for is_recording to observe a 1 when that happens. 

I was looking for a work around and saw that playing_status also does not observe any changes. Looking for playing_status to report a 1 upon playing, and 2 when recording. I checked on a Midi clip as well, and same problem. 

Using the latest Max8, Live12, Windows 11. 

The is_recording and playing_status of the Clip Slots department seem to not be working.

I tried observing both audio and midi tracks,...

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The is_recording isn't working because you are sending the live.path live_set...clip when you select the track with the number box. If there isn't already a clip in slot 0 then the live.path will return id 0 (that there is nothing at the path you sent). Then when you start recording the live.path isn't watching the correct id. if you start recording and then set the track or if there is a clip already in slot 0 then set the track and start recording it will work.

I stored the path in a zl.reg and wait for a change from has_clip to send the path so that you can set the track before there is a clip in slot 0. 

I got the playing_status to work on a group track 

path live_set tracks (group track #) clipslot 0   if any of the tracks in a group have a clip playing in slot 0 1 is returned if any are recording 2 is returned 

Yes, it is a bit tricky to wrap my head around asking info from a clip that doesn't exist yet. Haha.  I'll have to look more into overdubbing, which i imagine is the only use case for is_recording in the actual Clip. 

It is also confusing to me that the LOM user guide states that these messages are 'useful in Group Tracks' when in fact some of these messages only work there. I have found that is_recording (for the ClipSlot) works both on the recording track and the group track, while playing_status only works on the group track. And of course, Group Tracks is not to be confused with a track in a group. 

Maybe is_recording and playing_status aren't working in max for live?