pmidipd30 | Ableton Live remote controller script for Pyle Audio

pmidipd30 is a JavaScript library. pmidipd30 has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

I recently added a Pyle Audio PMIDIPD30 to my setup, mostly because it's cheap and it comes with a crossfader. Sadly, it didn't come with a remote controller script for Ableton Live, MIDI maps in Live didn't quite seem to do what I want, and the generic user remote script doesn't seem to support crossfaders. So, it appears that the Live's (mostly undocumented) Python API is the way to go. It took a little effort to figure this out (hat tip to Julien Bayle and Hanz Petrov for getting me started). Specifically, the Live API comes with a number of high-level classes for things like transport control that do lots of complex stuff that I didn't need, while obscuring the basic functionality that I wanted. In the end, I found a solution that bypasses most of the complexity of the remote script API while giving access to the (nicely documented) Live Object Model. The result is a simple base class (simple_controller_base.py) that I believe will be useful in other settings, plus a device-specific sublass (PMIDIPD30.py) that shows how to use it.