Ableton Live and transport jog

[Sasha]

Is there way to controll transport of Ableton Live with encoder (jog). I couldn`t find any learn function for it.

[audiocommander]

Do you mean the Transport Bar in Live's "horizontal" edit mode (not the vertical Slot Mode)?

I don't think you can assign a midi controller to that.

Maybe LIVE recognizes standard MIDI Song Position (System Common & System Realtime) Messages:

take a look here: http://www.midi.org/about-midi/table2.shtml

 11110000= F0= 240| System Exclusive           |      **       |      **
 11110001= F1= 241| MIDI Time Code Qtr. Frame  |  -see spec-   |  -see spec-   
 11110010= F2= 242| Song Position Pointer      |     LSB       |     MSB
 11110011= F3= 243| Song Select(Song #)        |   (0-127)     |     NONE
 11110100= F4= 244| Undefined (Reserved)       |      ?        |      ?
 11110101= F5= 245| Undefined (Reserved)       |      ?        |      ?
 11110110= F6= 246| Tune request               |     NONE      |     NONE
 11110111= F7= 247| End of SysEx (EOX)         |      "        |      "
 11111000= F8= 248| Timing clock               |      "        |      "
 11111001= F9= 249| Undefined (Reserved)       |      "        |      "
 11111010= FA= 250| Start                      |      "        |      "
 11111011= FB= 251| Continue                   |      "        |      "
 11111100= FC= 252| Stop                       |      "        |      "
 11111101= FD= 253| Undefined (Reserved)       |      "        |      "
 11111110= FE= 254| Active Sensing             |      "        |      "
 11111111= FF= 255| System Reset               |      "        |      "

[Sasha]

Yeah, horizontal. I like Live, but missing that posibility makes it at least one class down than program deserves with everything besides that. 2 bad for that...

[audiocommander]

have you checked out the SongPositionPointer?

It seems it's exactly what you're looking for!

If Live sends this continuous pointer, you can relatively change it by an ENC and send the updated songPositionPointer back to Live. I haven't tried, but don't see a reason why it shouldn't work

You'll find in depth info about the spp here: http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midispec.htm

-> Song Position Pointer