Dear all,
I've been searching around for an answer to this and I haven't found anything that mentions it yet so here's a new thread.
TL;DR: how to save a standalone mode setlist and use a max4live device to "Send it to SoftStep" instead of using the SoftStep editor?
I love using the softstep in standalone mode. It's light on resources and is quite stable. It's great for my purposes and means that I don't have to open the SS Editor program when I'm performing. Super!
Suppose I have two Ableton sets - "Apple" and "Banana"
They're both sets to be used for live looping and live effects processing.
Each one uses one or two Softstep scenes.
For example, Ableton set "Apple" uses Softstep scene "APPL"
and Ableton set "Banana" uses Softstep scenes "BNA1" and "BNA2".
Sometimes I play a gig using Ableton set "Apple" (and therefore only use Softstep scene "APPL")
and sometimes I play a gig using "Banana" and its two SS scenes "BNA1" and "BNA2".
To keep things simple at the gig, I usually change the Softstep setlist so that my setlist only contains the relevant scenes for that gig.
For example, when I'm playing a gig using the "Banana" Ableton set, I change my Softstep setlist so that only "BNA1" and "BNA2" are loaded.
Currently, I open up the Softstep editor before each gig and manually switch the setlist over. But as my library of Ableton sets grows, so does the list of Softstep scenes that I'm switching in and out.
So here's what I want:
A max4live device that stores the Softstep setlist and can send that setlist to the Softstep when I click it's "Send to Softstep" button.
I'm not too fussed about what I have to do to import the setlist into the max4live device - whether it's type it in, export from the Softstep editor, export from some other file, etc. No big deal.
BUT the big deal IS:
(1) how do we capture the data that the Softstep editor sends when I click "Send to SoftStep"?
and (2) how to create a max4live device that can send that exact data to SoftStep without opening up SoftStep editor?
Is it a series of Sysex messages that need to be sent? Is it some other type of communication? Serial port?
Thanks for any help!
You're a pack of legends.
Shaun