One can’t imageing to what extent a bored man can go! To prove this I always wanted to control my Ableton Live set with my iPad. I wanted to have full control. I started with TouchOSC but I found it very limiting. They I saw “TouchAble” and “LK”. “LK” looks like a great piece of work with an active maintanance. So I bought that. Then before actually making any music I thought wouldn’t it be cool if I could make my own control surface! Well it is very very cool. I also always wanted to learn Max so I found this a good opportunity to learn and build something that I can use along with LK.

Max for Live has a series of objects under the name Live Object Model (LOM). This allows Max to access every part of the Ableton Live. I start reading the manuals and watching some introductory videos on YouTube. After struggling a bit here and there mostly on the way Max represent and handle strings I succeeded to control Ableton with OSC.

In this I put all the necessary files that you need to get started if you are curious, or just bored like me. Open the Live set, load the max device in any track and then run Open Stage Control. When you open the Live set there are only two tracks with only the first clips being loaded. After adding the Max device you can open it in Max and see how things are done. For this I prepared the file to only control the first clip of the first track. It is also very straightforward to add or modify the device if you wich to do so. The next step is to download OpenStageControl and set the send and recieve ports as the ones in the Max device. After running the Open Stage Control you should be able to load the “json” file in the repository with the stop, play and clip progress knob that corresponds to the first clip in the frist track.

I hope this will be of any help for people out there. It was a great fun tot do this and I am going expand on this in my spare time. I will also try to upload and update this blog when I have more comprehensive version.

I do need to mentions the following tutorial that helped me to be able to get this far:

• https://youtu.be/bupVHvMEAz0
• https://youtu.be/yLpvJho5hQA
• https://youtu.be/qeabaagMZr8

Thanks to all of them to their great videos.