Thanks to Mike from max4live.info the Block and Ohm64 now have auto mapping in Live by way of the remote scripts. This works with Live 8, and max4live is NOT required to use it. These scripts let you simply select the controller from Live preferences and automatically maps the controls in Live to the hardware controls. It also lets you navigate the focus of the clip bank with the “red box” so you can have virtually unlimited clip launching in one set. This is the first version of the script and we have some big plans for it down the road. If there is something that you want to see it in that we haven’t included, stop on my our forums and let us know.

Download the scripts here.

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At the stroke of midnight every night, Head Weirdo Jeremy X. Halpern switches on the live feed at www.weirdos.tv and spews out a stream of bizarre flowing words and visuals, accompanied by improvisational electronic musical creations and weirdos calling in from around the world. Each episode of the show is an adventure into the imaginary experiments of automatic creation. Livid software is utilized to its utmost potential in every aspect of this ground-breaking, frame-breaking, and mind-bending experience.

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Rounding out the documentation for the Mackie Emulation on our wiki
is this video tutorial where I show you how to setup the Mackie-based automap in Ableton Live for the Ohm64. It’s extremely easy, and very powerful, giving you complete access to all tracks, and a lot of interface control.

You’ll need the latest version of Ohm64Editor for this to work.

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Automapping Ableton Live 8 with OHM64.

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Possibly the third most important release of the year for audio and video (frankly, you’ll have to kill me to cede spots one and two for the Ohm64 and block: we work too damn hard on these to give those spaces up on our blog!) is Max For Live.
Max For Live extends the already insanely deep audio environment of Ableton Live with a (somewhat) easy-to-use programming language for making your own music, sound, and even video, plugins. Our first project for M4L integrates our block and Ohm64 controllers into Ableton Live with LiveStep.
LiveStep is an extremely rich (as in “dessert”, not “money” – this download is free) step sequencer. WIth control of up to eight sequences, each sequence can be modified with a huge variety of hands-on control. You can even play synths and drum machines on top of the sequenced insanity, and record loops of improvised melodies to play back.
You can download the devices, some sample Live sets, and of course, a bit of documentation from our downloads page.
Words fail me on the sheer joy of this device, so here’s some videos that will explain all the features. (I apologize in advance to your ears for the horrid “music” of Part 2 – I just had to crank out that extra video and release this sucker, and I wanted it extra apparent what is happening.):

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