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If, like me, you have one monitor for Live, and one for all your VST plugs you will have noticed that Live closes them all when you load a set.

Annoying, because when you have "auto hide" plug-ins on, you can set it so that when you select a track, your plugs open on your 2nd screen, Live saves their window positions - but first you have to manually open them.... with the mouse! Aargh!!!

So here's a script that does it for you:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jxc1u4

Mak sure "Auto hide plug-ins" is on.
After you load a set for the first time, press the hotkey for the script and it will select a track, open all the plug-ins, select the next track, and so on until it has opened them all, after that you can select a track and all your plugs will open.

Make sure to read the included text file, and make sure you follow all the instructions, or it won't work, it's a bit of a dirty hack. Skins supported 7 "default" and "5.2default" (5.2 Included in the Zip)
Resolution 1680 x 1050 but it's really easy to change the script for other resolutions. Read the text file!

Let's hope this leads to Ableton giving us an options.txt entry
"VstPluginsShowOnLoad" or something like that.

Thanx very much for that!
I really do hope Ableton implements it sometime.

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Did this get mixed in with the definitive script?
I have been playing with autohotkey, lots of fun.

i just want to be able to open the plugin window in the selected track. not all, just the selected track.
ill guess ill take a look at the script and see if i can modify it to my needs

could someone please repost as i missed the orignal share of this file.
thanks !

trainwreck wrote:could someone please repost as i missed the orignal share of this file.
thanks !

I think it is contained in the definitive script... do a search for that.
I am not sure tho...

friend_kami wrote:i just want to be able to open the plugin window in the selected track. not all, just the selected track.
ill guess ill take a look at the script and see if i can modify it to my needs

Hey are these tuts yours at IDM?
Why not post them here?
I could not see all of them cuz I'm not reged.

those are mine yes, and i have already posted them here before.

Wish I knew what the hell you were talking about, sounds like a good thing...but alas I am a mac user for a reason.

UKRuss wrote:Wish I knew what the hell you were talking about, sounds like a good thing...but alas I am a mac user for a reason.

bomes midi translator is for mac aswell though. although you guys have midipipe aswell. bastards :p

I was meaning things more like 'hotkey' and 'script'

No idea what those thigns are or what I would do with them.

my hotkeys script doesn't work anymore since I moved from AMD3200 to Quadcore... I need to rewrite it but I can't be fucked at the moment...

djsynchro wrote:my hotkeys script doesn't work anymore since I moved from AMD3200 to Quadcore... I need to rewrite it but I can't be fucked at the moment...

The script is not there any more...
It needs a more stable home.
Post it again, let us take a look.

let me dig it out & i'll post it hang on...