[PD] controlling ableton with pd via midi

[Fede Camara Halac]

Hi,

I would like to control Ableton Live 10 Intro with Pd 0.50.2 on macos.  

On Pd I set the Midi Devices "IAC Driver IAC Bus 1" as input and "2" as output. On Ableton I set "ADVANCE" as "Control Surface" with "IAC Driver IAC Bus 2" as input and "1" as output. 

So far, [noteout] works as expected, but [ctlout] only works when an instrument/effect is focused on Ableton, and assigning values is not consistent since every Ableton effect/instrument has a different setup.

Since I don't have external controllers, I imagine that one can use the "midi map" function in Ableton to assign any [ctlout] message as one would with a midi controller. However, I cannot seem to accomplish this. 

I have been using [midiin] to check within Pd the values that correspond to knobs and other stuff in Ableton, but there seems to be only a limited amount of things I have access to from Pd (e.g. I cannot change focus from Pd)

Has anyone tried any of this? Are there any other solutions for controlling Ableton with Pd? Is midi the right way to go?

Cheers,

fdch


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