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How to make a Red Box script (Session Box) for Ableton | Remotify Skip to main content Tutorials Pricing Help Community Register Login How to make a Red Box script (Session Box) for Ableton by John Carney last updated Jul 11, 2018 Contents What is a Session Box / Red Box & why is it useful? How do I create a Session Box? Customising the size of your Session Box Mapping your prune controls What is Session Box Offset? What’s the difference between 0 and ’n/a’? Initial Sessionbox offset What is Combination Mode? How to set Session Box LED feedback? How do I add Session Box Navigation controls? How do I create mixer controls which move with the Session Box? How do I link Session boxes from variegated MIDI remote scripts together? Why isn’t my Session box working? How do I exhibit the prune colours from Ableton Live on my controller? What is a Session Box / Red Box & why is it useful? The size of an Ableton Live Project can vary anywhere from 1 track to 1000, that’s one of the wonders of modern software. Your hardware however, doesn’t have that luxury. If you have a controller which is designed to tenancy 8 tracks, then 8 tracks is the maximum it can control. Session boxes are a genius concept.Moreoverknown as the 'Red Box prune grid' and first introduced by the Akai APC40, when you have one activated, you will see a coloured box wrapped virtually a grid of clips in your Ableton Live project. The idea is that your MIDI controller will tenancy whatever is contained within this box and when you move the Session box, the tracks, scenes & clips which you have wangle to, will automatically update and move with it virtually your project. Adding a Session Box ways you can remove the limitations of a physical MIDI controller and have the worthiness to wangle every track and scene in your project. How do I create a Session Box? With the Remotify App you can hands create a custom size Session box for your MIDI Controller. Hop into the App (http://remotify.io/app#/list), click add ‘Add a new mapping’ then click ’Session Box’. A Pro worth is required to add a Session Box in your script, go here for increasingly details and to upgrade Customising the size of your Session Box Scroll lanugo slightly and you will see a visual representation of an Ableton Project, well-constructed with a red box which represents the Session Box. By default you will see it is set to be 2 tracks in width and 4 scenes in height. To transpiration these settings, go to the option ‘Width, Height’ above.Transpirationthe selected options from ‘2 and 4’ to your own requirements and you will see the box update to match. Mapping your prune controls Each woebegone box represents a prune control, the boxes within the red box are for launching clips, the boxes under ‘Scenes’ are for scene launch, ‘stop track’ for stopping the track above, ‘stop all’ stops all currently playing tracks. Mapping a tenancy on your MIDI Controller to a Session Box prune works in the same way as MIDI Mapping any other control. Make sure your Controller is unfluctuating and hit ‘MIDI Learn’. if you haven’t washed-up so yet, I recommend you read how to make your first MIDI remote script Click into the first woebegone square and, you will see it highlight and your cursor appear. Now printing a sawed-off on your controller and you will see its MIDI value towards in the box. Repeat this for all of the woebegone boxes - you can use tab and alt+tab on your keyboard to quickly move left & right. Channel, type, Momentary, Value Each of these represent the variegated pieces of each MIDI message that your mapping. You can click on them to see the values that have been input and transpiration them if you need to. Notice the the colour transpiration of the table unelevated & so that you don’t get confused, remember that woebegone is the MIDI value! What is Session Box Offset? When your Session Box first loads, the Session Box offset settings are taken into worth when placing the box on the screen of Ableton Live. The Offset option of the Session Box mapping is where you can segregate these settings. The values offset the Session Box from the top left corner of the project, settings both to 0 ways that Session box will be placed at the top left corner. What’s the difference between 0 and ’n/a’? This will only make a difference if your script has multiple modes. If you switch modes and your Session Box is set to n/a then it will stay in the same place it is was last in. If you make the offset 0 then the Session Box will jump to the 0 position each time its mode activates. Initial Sessionbox offset On the Mapping List page, you’ll moreover see an option for 'Initial Sessionbox offset’ This allows you to set a position for the Session Box to load to when the script first initialises and have individual Session Boxes set to ’n/a’ so they stay in their current position. What is Combination Mode? When Combination Mode is turned on, your Session Box will basically ‘stick’ to other Session Boxes from totally variegated MIDI Remote Scripts that moreover have this option turned on. This allows you to move multiple Session boxes together as though they are one. For increasingly info on using Session Box with Combination Mode, Offset & Modes, watch this video: That’s your vital Session Box created, if you download & install the script you’ll now have a working Session Box script well-constructed with a coloured box in the Live exhibit and full prune launch control, but there’s a lot increasingly you can do with it… How to set Session Box LED feedback?Unelevatedthe Session Box visualisation you will see the LED feedback box. Each input box represents a variegated Session Box related event that can occur in Ableton Live. The value you enter for each of these are velocity values that your MIDI Controller uses to exhibit a unrepealable colour. Each controller has its own set of velocity > colour settings. You can find increasingly details on setting LEDs for your Session Box here Custom LED feedback for your Session Box How do I add Session Box Navigation controls? Having the worthiness to move a Session Box virtually your Live project is one its biggest benefits. So lets add this functionality to your script. On the mapping type page, next to Session, click ‘Session Box navigation’ Keep the mode option on ‘1' Each direction needs to be created individually, next to ‘Direction’ make your selection. ‘Move by’ has 2 options, ‘1' and ‘page’. 1 ways that your session box will move 1 track or scene and ‘page’ ways it will shift by its unshortened width or height. So if the Session Box is 4 tracks in width and you set it to move right, each time you printing mapping on your controller, the session box will move by 4 tracks. For LED on/off values, your tenancy will light up if you have space to move in the selected direction and will be off if the Session Box can’t move any further. How do I create mixer controls which move with the Session Box? You will probably want to add mixer controls to your MIDI script which will automatically update and move with your Session box. This is super simple in the Remotify App. When you have an zippy Session Box in your script, the ‘specific’ track Type option becomes relative to it. Meaning if you have a Volume mapping set to track 2, it will automatically midpoint track 2 within the Session box. For example, if you have a 4 track Session box and you've moved it to track 9 - 16 then your track 2 Volume mapping will now tenancy track 10 (which is still track 2 inside your Session Box). This can be washed-up for all mixer mappings: Volume, Pan, Mute, Solo, Arm, Send. How do I link Session boxes from variegated MIDI remote scripts together? This is washed-up using Combination mode detailed above. Why isn’t my Session box working? Session Box requires a minimum of Ableton 9.1.3, if you are using a later version but still don’t see it towards in your Ableton Live project: 1. Make sure you have installed your script correctly, read this tutorial on how to install MIDI Remote Scripts 2. And this tutorial how to debug and fix your MIDI Remote Script How do I exhibit the prune colours from Ableton Live on my controller? We currently only have this misogynist for the Launchpad Pro. You will need to add a few lines of lawmaking uncontrived to your MIDI Remote Script. Contact us to get the code. Log in or register to post comments Similar posts to this Session Box vs MPK249 + Feedback [with Images] John and Community, First of all, I fathom and have a profound respect with this Remotify... increasingly multi track tenancy with increasingly than one script / controller ? HI, Firstly thanks for creating this.. im hoping it can help create some very clever stuff... increasinglyFull-lengthrequest Hi, I was wandering if you guys have any plan regarding full-length expansion. 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