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Moving Track Selection with Session Box Navigation
Submitted by rpacker on Thu, 06/15/2023 - 22:09
Control Surface Studio User
I have a Faderfox MX-12 (12 tracks) and have a script that successfully does the following:
-- banks the session box to advance 12 tracks
-- fader volume banks as expected
-- device selector controlling macros banks as expected
What isn't banking is the track selector using highlight navigation. It works fine for the first 12 tracks but then when I bank to the next 12 tracks, the highlighted track selection doesn't move with the session box.
Am I missing something to get the track highlight to bank?
Thanks!
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Hi rpacker,
I don't have any code to work with here. I assume you already have a reaction somewhere to find the highlighted track.
Add a listener there that searches where you are when you change the session box.
Hope that sets you in the right direction.
Thanks for the response. I am not using reactions, just the highlight. It seems like such a simple thing to bank the highlight selection. Is there really no way to do this except with reactions? I may combine Control Surface with my own Ableton LOM script to try and simplify.
I just tried place a reaction/modifier on the highlight, but it didn't work. Not sure if your screenshot is showing the whole process? Are there any actions required, you just show the listener portion. Thx.
I just test this script: "Track Highlight Relative to Session Box" but when I incorporated into my MX-12 script the css script disappeared!
Be great to get some help with this.
Thanks!
Hi rpacker,
True I only supplied the listener since I didn't know how your script is working right now.
About post #4: I would suggest starting a new script (new script name) to test out the "Track Highlight Relative to Session Box" That way it should definitely work!
I will try to make something work later today based on the "Track Highlight Relative to Session Box" and share my findings here.
Greetings
Hi rpacker,
I just tried John's "Track Highlight Relative to Session Box" script and it works flawlessly here.
I added a Reaction that automatically sets the highlighted track to the new Session Box view. In this example with 4 tracks; when the Session Box moves 4 tracks to the right (it now shows track 5 to 8) the highlighted track automatically changes to track 5. If the Session Box shows track 9 to 12, track 9 will become highlighted,
It is not perfect yet, but it might get you where you want it to go.
Keep us updated ;-)
Many thanks! I'll give it a try.
It works! I modified it for 12 tracks instead of 4. Also, instead of scrolling for banking, I use a set of buttons to bank by 12. Now I just need to integrate all the other things I am doing such as device selection and parameter banking, etc. Thanks so much!
Great to hear that!!
Thanks for the feedback :-)
Just to make sure you know; in script mode, you can drag and drop mappings from one script to the other by clicking on the green icon and dragging them to your new script.
In my workflow, I duplicate the mapping first and drop it in the new script, that way the original mapping stays at the same spot.
Happy scripting!
Thanks for the tip. I am still wrapping my head around CSS and am only now realizing how deep it is.
Yeah, that is also a reason why some features, while in our heads straightforward, are not directly implemented. It would get in the way of how other people would like their script to behave...
Have a nice one ;-)