Hi All,

Im building a midi controller using an arduino, firmata and scaling and routing everything to ableton in a pd patch, however its getting a bit tedious having to enable all the pins and set the midi channels everytime, and then have to remap all my controls.

Is there anyway of getting pd to save certain settings in my patch and getting ableton to recognise my controller as the same device and recall my mappings?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

look up SSSAD. it's a system for saving stuff. there is no inbuilt way to save presets in pd.

although, a quick and easy way, if you just want to keep the values of sliders, etc, is to right click them for their properties dialogue box, and then click 'init' to make the value saved with your patch.

'init' was just what I was looking for in recalling my start up settings so a big thanks for that. Just getting ableton to save the mapping and thats a lot of wasted time configuring things saved!

I use to store data in arrays and save it in a text document. Works great.