[OT] Free Ableton MIDI Remote Scripts docs + browser-based generator

Hi all,

A bit off the core TD topic but close to it: TDAbleton (hello @Ivan ) is built on top of Ableton’s MIDI Remote Scripts, the ones I decompyled long time ago, in particular.

I have rebuilt the docs and sources into a proper free and open resource:

New, and probably the most useful part here: a browser-based Remote Script generator. No install, no backend, runs entirely in the page over WebMIDI:

Plug in a controller, it reads the signals live, you map controls to actions (transport, mixer, device parameters, encoders with relative modes), and it outputs a working ControlSurface script you drop straight into Live’s Remote Scripts folder. Useful for a custom controller script feeding a TD rig, without writing the Python by hand.

Free and open. Share it, push it !

Julien

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This is awesome Julien

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more is coming…

Do you happen to have the API docs somewhere in the old table format you used to use? I found that easier to browse in some cases.

I really can provide this on very different ways and publish it differently. Let me think about it. With makedocs and some scripts, I can really change the layout very easily. Will work on it.

Yeah the new look is more modern and professional looking but the old brute force list I found a lot easier to find stuff. Like you could just search for “track” and quickly rifle through every mention of the word. If I remember correctly, that old way was just one big file… could be pretty easy to provide it as an option.