Targeting a parameter on a smart way

Using Ableton Live & Max for Live, you probably want to adress a specific parameter of your live set in order to change it remotely.
If you studied max for live and LiveAPI a bit, you probably already know that you need to use the famous live path to “progressively” enter in the Live engine by walking on the path, beginning by the live_set root, the track, the device and finally the targeted parameter.

A nice way, used by a lot of people, is to use 3 umenus objects in max for live.
Those 3 menus are populated progressively by clicking on the first one to choose the track, the second one to choose the device in that track, and the 3rd one to choose the final target: your parameter.

I made ONE of the possible implementation and gave it as an example.

It involves javascript and several max objects.

The whole architecture is:

Here is the stuff:

———-begin_max5_patcher———-
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———–end_max5_patcher———–

The JS code is :

/*
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
this funky code has been written by me, julien bayle, a particular sunday morning,
but you can edit it, as a lot of my others work, in order to inspire you, etc.
this code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
*/

inlets = 4;
outlets = 4;

function get_those_funky_tracks()
{
for (t = 0 ; t < num_tracks; t++)
{
track_table[t] = new LiveAPI(this.patcher, “live_set tracks ” + t);
outlet(0, “append ” + track_table[t].get(“name”));
}
}

function get_those_cooly_devices(track_n)
{

num_devices = track_table[track_n].getcount(“devices”);

for (d = 0 ; d < num_devices; d++)
{
device_table[d] = new LiveAPI(this.patcher, “live_set tracks ” + track_n + ” devices ” + d);
outlet(1, “append ” + device_table[d].get(“name”));
}
}

function get_those_gorgeous_parameters(device_m)
{
num_parameters = device_table[current_device].getcount(“parameters”);
for (p = 0 ; p < num_parameters; p++)
{
parameter_table[p] = new LiveAPI(this.patcher, “live_set tracks ” + current_track + ” devices ” + device_m + ” parameters ” + p);
outlet(2, “append ” + parameter_table[p].get(“name”));
}
}

function export_the_so_so_looked_for_ID(parameter_o)
{
outlet(3, parameter_table[parameter_o].id) ;
}

function clear_all()
{
outlet(0, “clear”);
outlet(1, “clear”);
outlet(2, “clear”);
}

function track(n)
{
outlet(1, “clear”);
outlet(2, “clear”);
current_track = n;

get_those_cooly_devices(n);
}

function device(m)
{
outlet(2, “clear”);
current_device = m;
get_those_gorgeous_parameters(m);
}

function parameter(o)
{
current_parameter = o;
export_the_so_so_looked_for_ID(o);
}

function bang()
{
clear_all();

liveset_observer = new LiveAPI(this.patcher, “live_set”);
num_tracks = liveset_observer.getcount(“tracks”);

current_track = 0;
current_device = 0;
current_parameter = 0;
track_table = new Array();
device_table = new Array();
parameter_table = new Array();
get_those_funky_tracks();
}

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