Observe Ableton Looper to know if "empty" or not

Bang MyOutlet's icon

Hello,

i'm working on a M4L patch to control Ableton Looper my way, I'm now facing an issue that I wasn't able to resolve with the help of Google.

Is it possible to know if a looper is empty (no clip has been recorded) or not (a clip has been recorded) ?
I guess I would need to use "live.observer" but after that I'm lost, what is the path, what do I put in the left Inlet ?
Any help is appreciated. :)

Evan's icon

Nope, there is no property that can tell you if it is empty or has audio in it. Only if it is playing, stopped, recording or overdubbing.

Bang MyOutlet's icon

Okay thanks !
For other people that has the same "problem", the workaround I found is to stop using the "direct" looper button and instead only using midi-mapping and M4L. You can create a patch that keep track of the state of looper and if it was recorded, cleared or not. I may post this patch later, but it's not ready yet.

pag's icon

Hi there
Did you eventually work out this patch ?
I'm stuck with the same problem.
Thanks !