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Drum Rack with User Remote Script

CSS Questions
Submitted by picky-picasso on Tue, 02/07/2023 - 03:34
picky-picasso
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Control Surface Studio User

HELP!!!

One of the final steps to developing an amazing controller script- for me - is to add one mode, or pad set, that has NO assignment in my MidiControl Script.

THEN I create a super simple UserRemoteScript so that with that mode, my device's 16 pads work with the 16 pads in the visible drum rack, and - much more exciting - follow them when they move.

Using UserRemoteScript, what you see is what you play, and when you scroll the pads on the screen (with your mouse, or if they are already selected the up and down arrow on your keyboard - or if your controller is sophisticated enough the buttons assigned to that function)

AWESOME.

BUT this is no longer working on CSS at least not 2.7. (Or maybe it's live 11) NOW, when I add a UserRemoteScript for this controller, the CSS MidiRemoteScript no longer loads!!

These used to be concurrent, and the MidiRemoteScript would take precedent. When there was nothing assigned, I would get the UserRemoteScript. This was incredibly versatile since CSS (and Remotify's webapp) have no way of emulating this kind of behavior (as far as I know.)

Is there any work around to get both working? I thought it was a midi channel thing, but it doesn't work, no matter WHAT I do - where it used to work wonderfully before.

I'd appreciate ANY information ANYONE can give me.

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picky-picasso
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picky-picasso - Tue, 02/07/2023 - 04:51
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Apologies. Again I've answered my own question:

Here's the method, and it's very simple.

  1. Have a mode or portion of your controller (whatever) that has nothing assigned to the 16 pads in CSS.
  2. Create a normal UserConfiguration.txt for the relevant controller pads.
    Be careful with channel (-1) and note/cc numbers etc.
  3. Save the UserConfig file in IT'S proper folder (%AppData% - Roaming/Ableton/Preferences/User...)
  4. In Ableton, set your remotify (css_) script as normal to your controller
  5. Set the UserConfig name in a SEPARATE controller line, but to the same controller

Like standard Ableton Magic, when you use that mode or that portion of your controller, you'll get that BEAUTIFUL behavior that you want!!