I decided to take a little bit of time to discover how the integration of hardware controllers really works within Live. Up until now, a lot of people understood bits and pieces, but did not have the whole picture. We new that we could select a supported controller within Live and it would automagically map to Live functions. We could modify the functionality by using Max For Live. But, what we didn't really completely understand is what the, "control_surfaces" object and all of it's subcomponents really did.
What are components?
What are controls?
How do these different things relate to each other?
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