Options.txt file - anyone been "modding"?

mcconaghy · Post by **mcconaghy** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:31 am

Bobby henke dropped this little gem in the Richie Hawtin thread:

Robert Henke wrote:Richie Hawtins "secret" Live feature is in since Live 4 for everyone:

create a file "Options.txt" in Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live4

write the line:

-MIDINoteFeedback

in it. If a session clip has been MIDI learned it will put out a note event when triggered, and a note event with velocity 1 per loop count and the note off on stop.

Thats all.

Robert

I already know the script to activate 64 ReWire busses within Live, but are there any more tricks for modding this proggie? Anyone care to share what can be done with the Options.txt file?

mr-e · Post by **mr-e** » Sat May 21, 2005 4:51 pm

don't know about any tricks but I'd love to see a setting that delays all midi data to external gear by a given amount

louZ · Post by **louZ** » Sun May 22, 2005 1:31 pm

I tried to turn off rewire master and slave functions, but I didn't notice any difference. I was trying to use Cubase and Live independently at the same time.
It didn't matter which app was started up first, they rewired like nothing had happened.

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Sun May 22, 2005 5:09 pm

Here's the list of symbols defined in the Live 4.1.2 binary nearby "MIDINoteFeedback". I suspect that this is the list of recognized debug symbols, but I'm not sure how to tweak them all, namely those which require numerical input.

AWarpDataPtr
AWarpDataPool
AlwaysShowRecordAutomation
AudioMemorySize
AsioNoClockSource
AsioNoSampleRateCheck
AsioNoSetSampleRate
AsioSupportProcessNow
ClipFireWillContinueSong
ChallengeMethod
CheckForUnlinkedComponents
CheckInfoTextSpace
ConsolidateExposed
DirectAssert
DisableDirectIo
DisableUpdateOverviews
DontLogExceptions
DontStoreCompoundPaths
DontUseCoreAudio
DrawDirectlyToScreen
DrawRandomBackground
DriveEngineTiming
DumpAddControlled
EnableDirectIo
EnableProfileLog
FileOpenLimit
GrainDelayLikeInLive3
Halion3BugWorkaround
HideSerialNumber
MIDINoteFeedback
MeterUpdateRate
NoAudioUnitLogic6Emulation
NoCrashLogging
NoVstStartupScan
NoMidiServer
NoMidiJitterCorrection
NoMidiEventFiltering
MidiEventThinning
OldInstrumentOnOff
Patch
PreLoad
RecordClipPrimeRate
ReportZeroLengthClips
ReWireChannels
ReWireLogic
ReWireMasterOff
ReWireMasterBufferSize
ReWireSlaveOff
ReWireSonar
SampleTimeOverflowScale
SelectNoAudioAsDefault
SendSPPInArrangerLoops
SetAssertMode
SoundManagerBufferSize
StackTraces
StrictSoundfileSpecification
SharedMemStoragePath
SuppressStartUpMessages
TestPaths
TextStreams
ThinningAggressiveness
Trace
TraceLog
TrackFadeTime
UndoStepsAtMouseUp
UpdateTest
UseDebugPrefs
IgnorePrefs
UseNormalAllocatorForOMemory
UseOwnGeneratedMidiTimeStamps
WriteLanguageFile
ReCreateHistory
MemoryBasedUndo
NoRestoreDocumentDialog
UndoSplashScreenFixOsX
VectorSize
VirtualAudioOut
VirtualAudioIn
VolumeCurvesLive2
VstNoLocalDir
VstNoUserDir
LogCpuPerformance
MeterAnalysationInterval
TestDir
TestScript
RunTestScript
SaveDocumentAfterTest
SaveDocumentAfterRecording
SaveAppViewAfterTest
SaveAppViewAfterRecording
BatchMode
BrowserDir1
BrowserDir2
FixedSize
InitialDocument
StartEventRecording
FastEventPlayback
CombineMouseMoves
WriteScriptOnTheFly
DontRecordAutoscrolling
EnablePseudoDevice
EventRecorder
ForceUseHyperThreading

polemans · Post by **polemans** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:55 pm

hi, how exactly do you activate 64 ReWire busses within Live? and with this little 'hawkins hidden feature' if i have understood correctly, we can trigger external midi devices, good for vj use etc?

louZ · Post by **louZ** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:06 pm

polemans wrote:hi, how exactly do you activate 64 ReWire busses within Live? and with this little 'hawkins hidden feature' if i have understood correctly, we can trigger external midi devices, good for vj use etc?

here ya go:

http://www.ableton.com/index.php?main=faq&sub=options

polemans · Post by **polemans** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:24 pm

great, cheers

DJADD · Post by **DJADD** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:27 am

standin' in the studio workin' on stuff for the show this weekend... and yep, midi feedback can trigger video with your audio, nifty stuff! havin fun right now

uese · Post by **uese** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:59 pm

Could anybody explain this to me in more details?

Richie Hawtins "secret" Live feature is in since Live 4 for everyone:

create a file "Options.txt" in Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live4

write the line:

-MIDINoteFeedback

in it. If a session clip has been MIDI learned it will put out a note event when triggered, and a note event with velocity 1 per loop count and the note off on stop.

Thats all.

Robert

I tried it. Have wirtten the options.txt file and assigned a midi-note to the session-clip. But i can't get any midi-notes out of live?
Does this also works with Live?

Thanks!
Urs

Robert Henke · Post by **Robert Henke** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:00 pm

Urs, did you assign a midi output device in the midi prefs for "Remote (Fernsteuerung). Also, write something like -dfsjfkes in that text file. If you
open live you should get a message box saying "unknown option -dfsjfkes" or something like this. If you do not get this message, the Options.txt is at the wrong place.

Hope that helps, Robert

uese · Post by **uese** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:22 pm

Thanks Robert for your quick answer!

Well, it seems that i have put it in the wrong place...
My "Options.txt" file now looks like this:

-MIDINoteFeedback
-dfsdfsddfsd

and i've put it into

(my username)/Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 4.1.4

but no message at the startup of Live4. So it doesn't seem to recoginize the file.
Where else should i place the file? Or is it perhaps in a wrong format? I've just written it in TextEdit.

Thanks for your help.
Urs

uese · Post by **uese** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:36 pm

solved!

it was a text format problem... when written in bbedit it worked out.

so, i'm off to some audio-video sequencing!

TheAnimal · Post by **TheAnimal** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:36 pm

I wish I could RTFM to find all this stuff well documented ...

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:43 pm

TheAnimal wrote:I wish I could RTFM to find all this stuff well documented ...

Sounds like a job for the wiki crew.

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:48 pm

TheAnimal wrote:I wish I could RTFM to find all this stuff well documented ...

hmmm this sounds like a job for....Wiki

who can be bothered typing in a Options.txt section??

Sqook?! you seem to know what you're doing...