Observing a clip slot to update LED -- Sharing my (limited) insights

Mat L's icon

Hi,

I have been working on a max device that aims at updating the LEDs of the miniLAB mk2 from Arturia, based on what is going on with a selected clip slot :
- is there a stop button ?
- is there a clip in the slot ?
- is it playing ?
- is it recording ?
- is it triggered ?

I have managed to put together something that's doing it, and I wanted to share it for several reasons. First, it seems to me that it is something many people would want, isn't it ? And since it is one of my first patch, I thought it could help other newbies. And last but not least, it would be interesting to share other ways ( and better! ) of doing it.

In edit mode, I sometimes have a "notifications" error but never in Live.

Here it is !

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.


johyde's icon

Hi there. Just in case I can reach you on a post from 6 years ago! This patch looks like kind of what I need - I want to change the colours on my Minilab ii pads on the fly from Max. However, while this abstraction gives me the MIDI numbers for the various colours, I've got no idea where to send them to MIDI-wise, and I've not (yet) been able to find a MIDI spec for the device. Can you (or anyone else) give me any pointers? Any help much appreciated.