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Have device selection follow track with BCR2000, Mackie Control, Ableton Live?

2009-11-19 by erikjalevik

I recently got a BCR2000, and am quite impressed with the Mackie control preset for Ableton Live by genmce.

I love being able to switch banks and channels and have all the controls follow along. There is one thing I'm missing though, and I'm wondering if it's possible to achieve. I'll illustrate with an example.

Say I have an EQ device on each track as the first device. I can click on it with the mouse, it'll get the "hand" and then I can use the d.pots. Brilliant. However, even better would be to have it always follow along when switching channels. So that the same knobs on the BCR would always control the EQ for whichever track I happen to have selected.

It sort of half-works if I first select the device in Live with the mouse, then move to a different track with a channel select button and that new channel has a clip in the current slot. The "hand" will then move to the EQ device of the new channel. If there is no clip in the slot however, the hand doesn't move. The hand also doesn't move if using the cursor knob instead of the channel select buttons.

Is there a way to set the hand via MIDI? So that e.g. every time I select a new channel, a message will go to Live saying "put the hand on the first device in the device chain for the active channel"?

Thanks

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