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Thanks, I'll definetly check that out. Abletons unwillingness to provide midi control of keystrokes is truly ponderous. I had high hopes for Live 7, but no, not this time either. On Dec 3, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Andrew Chaikin wrote: > Chris Sewell wrote: > >>>>> > Since the guys Ableton still have not provided midi control > of keystrokes, this might allow me to switch live sets remotely. > Bome has yet to make good on its promise of a Mac version of > Midi Translator and the Midistroke doesnt really work well. > <<<<< > > Chris, > > If by "remotely" you mean using a midi device as opposed > to the keyboard, switching live sets is indeed possible, > without a remote control. > > I'm a former Bome fanatic who switched to Mac. > The solution I whipped up involves MidiPipe and > QuicKeys. > > MidiPipe lets you assign AppleScripts to Midi events. > QuicKeys is a macro program for Mac. It's not cheap, > but it's super-powerful. > > So in QuicKeys, you can write a macro to open a > specific file when a certain key is pressed. Let's say > you assign Ctrl-A to Song 1, and Ctrl-B to Song 2. > (Not Command-A and B -- Ableton uses those already.) > > Let's assume your Midi device has two buttons that > send out 192,1 and 192,2. > > Then in MidiPipe, we run the following script when > a Midi event comes in: > > on runme(message) > tell application "System Events" > if (item 1 of message = 192) and (item 2 of message ≥ 1) and > (item 2 of message ≤ 2) then > tell process "Live" > set frontmost to true > keystroke "P" > if (item 2 of message = 1) then keystroke "a" using > control down > if (item 2 of message = 2) then keystroke "b" using > control down > end tell > end if > end tell > end runme > > ... which says: > If a Midi event of 192,1 or 192,2 comes in, then > - make Live the frontmost window > - type "P" into Live (more on this in a sec) > - type Ctrl-A or Ctrl-B > > Voila. Hit one of your buttons, and the file opens. > > - - - - - > > Unless of course Ableton puts up some dialog > boxes. > > - If the Ableton set is currently playing, you'd get > a "This action will stop audio. Proceed?" dialog box, > which you don't want. So if you assign "P" (or > whatever key you want) to Live's stop button, the > script above will stop Live playing before closing > the file. (That's what the "keystroke P" line is for > in the script above.) > > - If your current Live set has changed, you'll get > a "Save changes to ____ before closing?" dialog > box, which we have to handle. So in Quickeys, > my file-opening macro looks like this: > > 1. Open file "Song X" > 2. Check for menu item "About..." in menu Live > 3. Type Keystroke "Command-D" > > ... which basically says: if, after trying to open > a new file, Live puts up the "Save changes?" > dialog box, hit Command-D for "Don't Save." > > - - - - - > > QuicKeys is super-easy to work with; with MidiPipe > you're sort of on your own. But the above system > does work, and has been bulletproof for me onstage > for 2 years now. > > Hope this helps... > > > Kid Beyond > email@kidbeyond.com > http://kidbeyond.com | http://myspace.com/kidbeyond > >