Observing which scene number is playing using follow actions instead of selecting the scene with the mouse
Hi all,
I have an Ableton session that plays through a number of different scenes using follow actions. I need to change the OSC port that is receiving incoming messages from one value to another value based on whichever scene is playing. I have found several solutions for monitoring the active scene using LOM, observer, etc.. that allows me to identify which scene is playing, however these only seem to work if I actively click on the scene- I have not discovered a way to simply observe which scene is playing without actively selecting the scene with the mouse. Anyone have any ideas?
Can you observe playing clip names? If you can’t observe the scene you could try observing dummy clips and name them to trigger the change.
(Yeah or place a different midi note inside each dummy clip that would be used as a scene identifier. )
Doesn't this work for you ?
EDIT : suggested patch doesn't work with scenes follow actions indeed...
The dummy note trick is what I wound up doing for use with Scheme for Max in my composition rig. The problem is that a "scene" doesn't exist in the LOM, it's just a bunch of clips being triggered. Also, controlling the order or fires is tricky. I wound up creating a track who's purpose is just to fire an event indicating which scene/row of clips we are on, and this gives me the ability to nudge it and make sure it happens first too. It's a dirty hack, but I did get it working well, and lets me jump around scenes under control of the Scheme.
(Scheme for Max is my external that is like the JS object but uses s7 Scheme Lisp and can run in the scheduler thread for accurate timing).