OhDaeSu

just a quick question - ive been looking for the path to observe whether an individual clip is playing.

I know (for example the top left clip) needs the live.path pointing to 'live_set tracks 0 clip_slots 0 clip', and this runs into the right input of the live.observer object - ive tried a 'property value' message on the left input, with a num box on output - i expected to see a 1 when playing, a 0 when not, but this isnt the case.

clip-observer-in-m4l

According to the documentation, clip property 'is_playing' cannot be observed.

https://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/m4l-ref/m4l_live_object_model.html

but you can observe the 'playing_status' which will give a bang when there is a change, then you need to recheck 'is_playing'

sorry, maybe i misunderstand, but can you not do what you want with "playing_slot_index"?:

thanks all - i ended up using the playing_slot_index as above. This can be combined with a getcount tracks, and an uzi firing across tracks to read a map of which clips are playing in the grid.

clip observer in M4L