Mixer Groups and Canva Buttons

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Hi all, I’m having troubles with the Mixer Groups and making canvas button work.

First: I name my group “Collin” so I type in Ableton “Guitars +G:Collin” . But now the mixer only shows the letter C. This happens for all my groups. And groups with the same beginning letter get together in the same group, vor example Guitars and GoldKeys are now both in the group called just “G”. How do I avoid that? Is there a setting that I am not aware of?

Second, I tried to make a button on a canvas to toggle the groups mute.

So I set osc command /mixer/Collin/mute toggle

But nothing happens.. I tried sending a test message /notify/big all “test” 2000, and this worked. So I think my synthax maybe wrong?

Thanks for the help!

Please fill out these values to make it easier to troubleshoot:

  • OS and Version: Sequoia 15.5
  • Version of AbleSet: Beta 28
  • Version of Ableton Live: 12.3
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Hey @FAster77,

For Mixer Groups, the group tag needs to be UPPERCASE in the Ableton track name so AbleSet reads it correctly as a full group name.

So instead of:

  • Guitars +G:Collin

Use:

  • Guitars +G:COLLIN

That should stop AbleSet from collapsing it to just “C”, and it will also prevent different groups starting with the same letter from being treated as the same group.

Your /notify/big test confirms OSC is reaching AbleSet. In this case, the issue is the group name casing on the OSC side.

For OSC control, the group name in the address is lowercase, so this is the one you want in the OSC Command on Press field:

/mixer/collin/mute toggle

Also, AbleSet exposes the group mute state as:

  • /mixer/[group name]/muted

So you can make the button reflect state with a dynamic background color like this:

${osc("/mixer/collin/muted") ? "green-900" : "green-500"}

On the button’s edit menu → Background Color → enable Dynamic → paste the expression above.

Here’s a the actual button you can import into your Canvases folder (inside any project folder you may be running) and test:

Collin.json (654 Bytes)

Hope that helps!

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Hey @agustinvolpe , thanks a lot!

That helped with both problems. And the option to have the color reflect the state is pretty neat.

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