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Session Box still appearing while no Controller is connected
Submitted by pag on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 08:23
Control Surface Studio User
I created a Session Box in CSS. The problem is that if I restart Live with no controller connected, the Session Box is still here.
To remove it, I need to disable the Control Surface in Live's preferences.
I can't find a setting to change this behavior. Am I overlooking something ?
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I don't think you're missing anything, you just need to deselect the script in preferences.
John
Thanks.
With other controllers that have their own scripts, the Session Box is not displayed when the controllers are not connected (this is the case for Push, the launchpad etc).
Is it possible to achieve this?
A little bump for this topic.
Is it normal that the Session Box appears without any controller connected to my computer ?
If the script is connected then yes the session box will most likely display.
John
Thanks for your answer.
Is that specific to CSS scripts? As mentioned before, this is not the case for any of my other Control Surfaces : if the corresponding controller is not connected, the Session Box won't be displayed (even if its script is "connected").
Is there something that can be changed in the code so that the box appears only when its controller is connected ?
Hmm it could be the way that CSS scripts are coded. Maybe there is a check in some other scripts to see if the controller first before displaying it.
The original Maschine and Maschine Jam Scripts from Native Instruments also show the redbox, same as many other. I guess only the Push, Launchpad and APC scripts are hiding the redbox if the controller is disconnected. It maybe a Midi Sysex case or something like that. Its also impossible to emulate the APC with any programmable Midicontroller to use the original APC script with the redbox.
I'm pretty sure the APC does what they call a 'handshake' between the hardware and Live before the script is activated to make sure that only the script and an APC can be used together I assume.
Yes, I can confirm that there needs to be a 'handshake' between the controller and the Script to have the Session Box appear. It's a Sysex string exchange.
I also would love to see this implemented, as my CSS scripts are the only ones that seem to do that. It's a small detail, but it's annoying to see session boxes showing up even though there are no controllers connected to them.
In the meantime, is there any Reaction mapping that could do that?
You could add this custom code as an action, which should remove the session box:
combination_mode = "off"
self.remove_session_box(combination_mode)
Hi John, thanks for your reply, although that's not working on my end. Is this supposed to remove the session box only when the controller isn't connected?