This is my personal version of a control script adapted from soneu03/Ableton_Minilab_project. While Ableton natively supports the Minilab Mk2 as a control surface, this support is pretty limited. This script builds on soneu03's functionality to add several more pages of controls to the pads and alter general behavior and encoder function.
Although I've relied on a lot of soneu03's code, I've pretty drastically changed some of the behavior of the script so I'll outline each thing it can currently do below:
The first page of pads (1-8) directly correspond to tracks in the session view. Pressing one of these pads will trigger the currently highlighted clip from that row to start playing. For already playing clips, pressing the pad will cause that clip to stop.
The second page of pads (9-16) offer some additional functions:
- Global play/pause
- Global stop
- Overdub toggle (session record)
- Undo
- Instrument/clip toggle
- Solo current track (exclusive)
- Arm current track (exclusive)
- Play/stop scene
At any time regardless of whether on pads 1-8 or 9-16 holding down one of the encoder push-buttons will enable a temporary mode where each pad once-again corresponds each track. To reiterate, in this mode, pads 1-8 and 9-16 map to the same 8 tracks so it doesn't matter which page of pads you're on. Holding down encoder 1 allows tracks to be turned on/off while encoder 9 allows tracks to be armed/disarmed.
First make sure to import and store the Ableton_Minilab_Mk2_Preset.minilabmk2 preset to the device using the arturia MIDI control center. The rest is the same as any other ableton remote script. Copy the Ableton_mMinilabMk2
directory to appropriate directory. On a mac you'd copy it to
/Applications/Ableton Live 11 Lite.app/Contents/App-Resources/MIDI Remote Scripts/
These scripts can get a bit convoluted and messy and this one is no exception. I'm doing my best to do things "the right way" but it's going to take a bit of work to clean things up (even just removing unnecessary debugging comments) so I can't promise that'll happen. Additionally, there is a fair amount of functionality added by soneu03 that I have decided not to use and much of this has ended up as dead code. I may work those features back into what I have here but for now, that code is currently unused.
Also, it's worth noting that due to the changes I've made some of the comments, notes, or content from soneu03's version of the project will be out-of-date so just be aware of that (I may get around to fixing this but again, no promises).