Ableton Live MIDI Remote Script / Control Surface

Instruments
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P.S. if you have a link to firmware 3.1.7 I can downgrade and test myself

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Hey there!

Is it supposed to be working with the MK2 hardware already? If not, please dismiss my post and Iā€™ll be patiently waiting until it is the case. However:

I followed the installation instructions using the latest github version thoroughly and am testing it with a very basic ableton project on my M1 mbp with macOS 12.6, ableton live 11.2.11 as well as 11.3. E1 firmware 3.2.6.

It works at the beginning, but after a short time the E1 becomes unresponsive and freezes. This can happen both in the Mixer preset as well in a currently selected device preset (not device specific it seems, happend with channelEq, AutoFilter, EQ8 open). Happens with both ā€œMixer.eprojā€ and Mixer.alt.eproj".

Do you have any hints what might be causing this behaviour?

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Hiā€¦ Iā€™ll have my hands on a mkII soon, and will test it myself. One Q already: do you have sendmidi installed and configured, or not?

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Well letā€™s say, I followed the steps to do so, but is there a quick way to confirm if it works properly?

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The log file should say something like

2023-05-28T22:52:20.612522: info: RemoteScriptMessage: E1 (debug): * Testing whether fast uploading of presets is supported.
2023-05-28T22:52:20.779209: info: RemoteScriptMessage: E1 (debug): * Fast uploading of presets supported. Great, using that!
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I just got my mkII and did some testing and ran into similar issues; for the time being I incremented some timeouts and that seems to work (but more testing needed, for which I do not have time right now). Iā€™ve committed and pushed the changes so if you download the latest version from GitHub, you can test yourself.

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thanks alot! I will do that once Iā€™m back from work.

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Firmware v3.3 for mkII us out. @jhh and I tweaked a few things and it all seems to work well now. The new firmware is available at app.electra.one.

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Thanks @martin for the amazing work!

I just pushed the latest version to GitHub. Let me know if you run into issues, or have suggestions for improvements. (P.S.: The dual setup, with a second E1 connected to the first to control the mixer is known not to work at the moment, but the will be resolved soon.)

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P.S. The push mentioned yesterday actually only happened jus now :blush:

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Just wanted to thank everyone and all that contributed to this script. Works really great for me(though I am still getting used to the menu of the actual Electra Oneā€¦ not so much the script).

Again wonder script! thank you!

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I am very happy. Now using the MK2 the experience is smooth.
My previous unit caused Ableton to freeze for 2 seconds between plugin changes.
That severely blocked my workflow while recording/mixing etc.
Not sure but I thing my unit had some technical issues ā€¦

Now things are so smooth.
Havenā€™t even updated the remote script yet.

Thanks so much!

Make more music!

Cheers

TIm

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