Ableton Live's transport is designed to play from the last start point persistently. Usually it's convenient, but sometimes it would be nice to pause and continue where you left off. This is possible using shift + spacebar but there isn't an in-built way to do this with any mappable functions in Ableton Live. Pause Button solves this problem.
Drop this lightweight, processor friendly MaxForLive device into any audio or MIDI track. Once Live's transport is playing, you can use the button to pause and continue playback. You can also stop the transport using spacebar and then continue playback using Pause Button. To use, map the main button to any MIDI note message or computer keystroke for remote control.
Works as promised. Couldn't find anyone having tried it in session view, so here I am ... it works fine. Not 100 % accurate all the time, but good enough for my purpose.
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Dana Ziv
Great addition
Feels weird that this isn't already built into Ableton, but the button works great and allows to pause using a midi controller
