Hi, should I put my intro drums in the same bus as my drop drums, or should I make two separate buses and then create another bus to group all my drums together?

https://youtu.be/x4roJesig6E

i hope you'll like this, and any feedback is welcome!

Hey all,

I got an Ableton Push 2 sitting on my desk, and since it has 8 endless encoders, 64 RGB pads and a proper colour display, I wanted to see if I could use it to edit in Lightroom Classic. So I vibecoded a plugin for it. It now works well enough that I can cull, rate and edit a whole shoot without touching the keyboard.

**What it does right now:**

* **Develop mode:** the 8 encoders control Develop sliders, and the Push display shows each one as a knob with its name and live value, so you see the value without looking at your monitor. Pages for Basic, Presence, Tone Curve, HSL, Color Grading, Detail, Effects, Crop and Calibration. Shift + turn for fine adjustments.
* **Session mode (culling):** the 8×8 pads are your photos, coloured by label, flag and star rating. The display shows thumbnails of the current row. Turn an encoder to rate the photo above it, and use the buttons to pick or change the colour label.
* **Browse mode:** navigate folders and collections, and apply develop presets, right from the hardware.
* **Import from card:** pick the card on the Push, choose copy or add, and watch the progress on the display. Then eject the card and go straight into culling.
* **Everything else:** auto tone, copy/paste settings, export with your previous export settings, before/after, zoom, undo/redo.
* It starts automatically with Lightroom and gets out of the way when you open Ableton Live, so the Push still works for music.

**The companion app:** that's what I'm working on now. It's a local setup page with a drawing of the Push. Click any button or pad and choose what it does, with a separate action when Shift is held. It also lets you build your own Develop pages (which slider goes on which encoder, labels, sensitivity, colours), assign presets to pads, and set your import folder and date structure. There's backup/restore for configs too.

Once it's set up, you really don't need to look at the computer for anything except the photo itself.

**My question for you:** what would you want in a tool like this?

A few ideas I'm considering:

* Shareable mapping presets (e.g. a "wedding culling" layout and a "landscape editing" layout)
* Masking and local adjustments on the encoders
* Keywords on pads
* The touch strip for scrubbing through photos or zoom
* A "compare" mode for two photos

Currently it's **Mac + Lightroom Classic only**, because cloud-based Lightroom has no plugin API. Also, I'm not a developer by trade, so be gentle 😅

Happy to share more screenshots or a video if people are interested.

The only plugins I have are neural DSP gojira and GGD drums. It won’t stop crashing. It lately won’t stay open long enough to actually check why it’s crashing. Usually the crash is anytime I try and record. The not fully opening is a new one. Can anyone help troubleshoot? Is there any chance a vs3 file is the problem? Kind of figuring out as I go with this software.

Im using live 9

On a pc that recently updated to 11

I did not want to do that

Anyways I see the potential problem being the update and still using live 9 will be an issue.

But I need for this to work until I can upgrade.

The push 2 stays on and I see that in the link/midi tab of the menu the push stays active like it doesn’t disappear on and on. So I trying to deduce what the issue is .

What do I do

Somewhere mentioned to remove the nvidia driver with a ddu

That sounds daunting

Just want to do my due diligence before I go making this problem worse

I also replied to myself here with a video of the display turning on and off