Bidirectional communication with Ableton Live Clip

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Zhcam
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Bidirectional communication with Ableton Live Clip

Post by Zhcam » Sun Apr 29, 2018 12:05 am

As the title states I want to both display the contents of a MIDI clip from ableton live in a bach score/roll as well as able to edit the displayed score and have the changes reflected in the MIDI clip. Here is an example using similar software (Livescore) http://www.computermusicnotation.com/?page_id=336 . I'm not looking for anything quite so involved as this but am wondering if anybody has done it before. If not, does anybody have ideas for how it can be done? (I know that one needs to use the Live API and associated language for getting and setting clip data. I am wondering how best to get data from bach roll/score into the clip - e.g. by using the MIDI export function and then transcribing the MIDI file, or by using bachs dumpout etc.)

ratox
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Re: Bidirectional communication with Ableton Live Clip

Post by ratox » Wed Jan 16, 2019 1:56 pm

hey man, use javascript.
There's many M4L devices which send midi to clip using M4L API. Get one, open it and see how it works, I did the same for my project.

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