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Mysterious little indicator


broc
Dec 14 2009 | 12:52 pm

When building M4L devices I sometimes get a little indicator (white or red) in the upper left corner of GUI elements. What does it mean exactly and how can it be cleared?


kleine
Dec 14 2009 | 4:24 pm

the indicators usually mean that you have an automated parameter.

Best
Christian


broc
Dec 14 2009 | 5:03 pm

That’s strange as I’m currently not using any automated parameters. However, the affected GUI elements are controlled in some way by send/receive messages. And the indicators magically appear somewhere in the process of editing and testing my devices.


Andrew Pask
Dec 14 2009 | 5:05 pm

Can you give me a list of steps I can follow to reproduce?

Thanks

-Andrew


broc
Dec 14 2009 | 5:40 pm

Unfortunately, so far I haven’t found a pattern to reproduce this behavior.
But I’ll investigate further and report any relevant findings.

Thanks for your interest.


broc
Dec 15 2009 | 5:10 pm

Andrew,

now I’m able to reproduce the behavior with an example (attached).

The device simply allows to start and stop Live’s transport.
Load it on a MIDI track and see how it works using its play button.

Now, press the *record* button in Live’s transport and start/stop again.
After this I’m getting the automation indicator on the play button!



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kleine
Dec 15 2009 | 6:12 pm

Thanks for the example. As far as i can tell it happens because you use a "live" Max object which

– writes into Live´s Undo history and-
– acts like all other Live parameters when using the global record button, although in this case you won´t see a breakpoint envelope.


broc
Dec 15 2009 | 6:54 pm

I’m a bit confused. Are you saying the behavior is normal/intended?


kleine
Dec 15 2009 | 7:26 pm

Yes, absolutely – it´s a feature.


broc
Dec 15 2009 | 7:43 pm

Thanks, I didn’t realize the effect of the global record button.
Is this explained somewhere in detail?


kleine
Dec 15 2009 | 8:39 pm

Automation is covered in Live´s manual chapter 18.


broc
Dec 15 2009 | 11:36 pm

Ok, mystery solved.


Emmanuel Jourdan
Dec 15 2009 | 11:38 pm

Christian is right that’s a feature, and the expected behavior from any parameter in Live. However in this specific example, I don’t think you want the live.text’s play object to be seen as an automatable parameter, if you set the parameter visibility to hidden in the object’s inspector it won’t be stored in the preset or the automation.


broc
Dec 16 2009 | 10:41 am

Thanks Emmanuel, that option is exactly what I need. I just didn’t expect that Live automates "everything" by default but basically appreciate the concept.

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