Aeros Looper and Ableton Move via MIDI

Aeros Loop Studio Help, Questions and Bugs
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I have my Aeros Looper connected to my Ableton Move via MIDI cables. I also have audio out from the Move going into the Aeros. 1. What I would like to do is be able to press “RECORD” on the Aeros, and have it start the Move playback. To keep things simple, I have selected the track on the Move…so for now, I don’t need to change songs, tracks etc. on the Move side of things. 2. When I push “PLAY” on the Aeros, I would like the Aeros track to go into playback, but I would like to send a command to the Move to stop playback on it’s side.

Would that be possible? If so, how?

While messing around, for a short bit, I was able to get the Ableton Move to trigger RECORD on the Aeros when I push play on the Move, but when I triggered playback on the Aeros, the Move kept playing - which is not ideal for my use case. I would really like to have it working as I’ve described in the 1st paragraph, where the Aeros is sending start and stop commands and the Move is responding to those commands.

Thanks so much.

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With the right settings (see manual especially pp.79-80) Aeros can send a MIDI start message when starting from a stopped state, and various CC messages under various potentially relevant conditions (e.g. part transitions, RPO state changes).

Unfortunately this table from https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/14661164865308-Using-MIDI-with-Move#h_01J7GAAKAK1V8KTDHYDP535AGW makes me doubt that Move even has a MIDI in playback command. It seemingly only responds to keyboard note information. If that’s right, the answer to your question is no.

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I think you’re right as I assume the start/stop would need to be a CC message vs a Program Change message.

Ableton Move can receive MIDI notes and polyphonic aftertouch messages. However, it does not support MIDI CC, monophonic aftertouch, or MIDI mapping