MIDI Kinetics Forum

I've searched for this, but not finding much on the forums.

I am working on a template to control an array of Ableton Live "Audio Looper" effects. All seems pretty straight forward, and I did find a basic user template in the User Library for controlling 4 Live Loopers. More basic than what I aspire to!

My question is: is there any way to get Lemur to show visual feedback of the Looper effect's current status? In other words...the Looper has 4 status modes: Rec, Play, OverDub, and Stop. Each defaults to a different color on the Live graphical UI. And the Looper "plugin" itself has a "multi button" which allows the user to easily switch between these modes.

I can see how it would be easy to use 4 separate buttons or switches in Lemur to switch between those 4 modes (that is what the User template I found has)....but that takes up a lot of screen real estate, and is not as intuitive as using one "multi button". Actually, making the multi-button and mapping it in Live is super easy! But I am hoping for some active feedback on the iPad as to the mode which the Looper is currently in! So what I visualize is a single custom button on Lemur, that changes color and/or text depending on the mode the looper is in.

This could be done easily, I suppose, just by having 4 separate colors that rotate in series as the button is pushed. But I imagine it would be easy for the Lemur button and Live to get "out of sync" in a live performance where you are switching back and forth between tracks. So actual *active* feedback from Live to Lemur is what I am seeking.

Any ideas? Or am I dreaming and its not do-able this way?

I think its not possible, as in, Live itself doesnt differentiate the feedback according to what mode the looper is in....DONT count on me alone though as I might be mistaken: map the multi-function button to a Lemur pad, and click the multi-function button from within Live's user interface - observe the midi messages Live then sends to Lemur - if they dont differentiate (which I think is the case) then there is no way to achieve what you are after.

It might be possible with some help from MaxForLive or .py scripting though and an acess to Live's API but this goes away from my knowledge.

Alright. That all makes sense. Thanks as always for your speedy response to my idea!

I will play around with your suggestions....and look into M4L as well. That might be a great work-around.

Thanks again!

Hello!

I'm also struggling to find a solution on visual feedback from the loopers!

Did you come over anything useful?

cheers!