Ableton Live Control Surface for Teenage Engineering OP-1

The functionality of the original script is awesome, despite being several years old now. OP-1 becomes a fully featured control surface for Ableton, with a lot of neat features. Jozef built some nice additions back in 2017, and I'll be implementing new features I think of (and any bug fixes that come up) now. Feature requests are welcome!

I enjoy using both session and arrangement view in Ableton, often starting ideas as session clips and building out a lot of the instrumental as scenes before locking in the arrangement. I could see a full mode-switching version of the control surface being an interesting alternate version of this. While I adore the workflow of the Push, I'm not sure if the OP-1 controls are as conducive to this kind of approach. I tend to prefer a straightforward, intuitive interface above all, so my approach to the OP-1 mapping is generally to streamline things in a way that maximizes creative flow rather than implementing controls for as much Ableton functionality as possible.

Installation

Please note that folders in the "MIDI Remote Scripts" folder must not contain dashes. Otherwise python will fail to import the module.
Also make sure you're running the latest firmware on your OP-1. Version 242 (released May 2020) included an important bug fix for octave/down functionality in midi control mode.

macOS:

Right click on Live App bundle and click "Show Package Contents"
Navigate to "Contents\App-Resources\MIDI Remote Scripts"
Drop OP-1 folder into MIDI Remote Scripts Folder

Windows:

Look for Ableton Live executable file
Look for the folder MIDI Remote Scripts
Drop OP-1 folder into MIDI Remote Scripts Folder

Finalize

Go to Ableton Live MIDI preferences Choose OP1 Control Surface

For operation details give a look on TE-OP1-Mapping-Guide.pdf

Update Log

Tested working as of September 2020, with Live 10.1.18 on macOS Catalina 10.15.6

LAST UPDATE - 28 Jul 2017

code cleanup
docs

16 May 2017

fixed bug that prevented clear button (ss8/m2) from working properly on sessions with track groups

15 May 2017

shift + paste (arrow down) button is undo now
shift + scissors is redo

14 May 2017

shift + seq button will toggle "follow song" option
improved text of a scene or a track displayed on OP1 - unprintable chars are removed, spaces joined together and string is limited to 20 chars (OP1 display limit)
encoder 4 in transport mode will control size of a track widget on press + turn

27 April 2017

fixed assert raising bug appearing when script was accessing non-existing slot (related probably to groups)

26 April 2017

mic and com button select track in transport mode
better toggle of views
pressing rec buton while recording will only stop record state, not the playback

22 April 2017

OP1 can now control transport params of Ableton in "transport mode" (tape)
shift + arrows jumps to next/previous marker
lift button sets/unsets a marker
shift+lift hides/shows the browser
blue encoder scrubs the tape (even while playing)
green encoder changes quantization parameters
white encoder moves the play position and makes a selection while pressed
orange encoder zooms arrangement view when in transport mode
shift + play plays a selection (if there is one)
shift + loop in sets the beggining of the loop to the current play position
screen now displays play state, quantization and BPM

8 September 2014

The main problems with the Live 9 version of the scripts were fixed.
The red box appears again and the song position arrows work again but with a workaround as I still couldn't understand why set_seek_buttons of the TransportComponent aren't working.

Developer: Nuno Santos (Imaginando, Lda)

For related questions please use the contact form at www.imaginando.pt

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