is it possible to send a midi message to a ableton midichannel. I am trying to make a drone pad with the new canvas feature… and I would like to know if trhought osc or midi is it possible…
Hey @Gerson_Benjamin_Sobe, welcome to the forum!
Sending MIDI from the Canvas isn’t currently possible, but I’m planning to add support for sending MIDI messages to Live. Here’s what I could imagine this to look like: AbleSet 3.0.0-beta.3 - #10 by leolabs
In the meantime, you could try using AbletonOSC in combination with MIDI clips in Session View. On the track of your drone pad instrument, you’d create one clip per note that contains only the note. You can then send /live/clip/fire OSC commands to fire these clips when you press the buttons in AbleSet.
For example, if the drone instrument was placed on your first track, you could trigger the first clip like this:
127.0.0.1:11000/live/clip/fire 0 0
The 2nd clip can be triggered using:
127.0.0.1:11000/live/clip/fire 0 1
…and so on. The first parameter is the position of the track (e.g. 1st track is 0, 2nd is 1) and the 2nd parameter is the position of the clip that should be triggered. Triggering a clip automatically stops any other active clip on the track.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions 
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Thank you so much for the answer, and thank you for this great tool! I’ll try your recomendation!
Now I sat on pc and read it again, I tried your suggestion but didnt get it throuhgt… any ways, I realised playing clips triggers the global paly botton, so it doesnt work for me that way…
I ll keep tring from max4live, and see if i get something with it… any help you could provide will be welcomed
I’m sure you can build a simple Max device that receives OSC messages and turns them into MIDI notes.
These links might be relevant:
- udpreceive Reference - Max 8 Documentation
- makenote Reference - Max 8 Documentation
- midiout Reference - Max 8 Documentation
I hope this helps
Are we talking session view?
Yeah, that’s only in session view
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