Sources of information on MIDI Remote Scripts & BeatStep internals

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This is a collection of sites that provide valuable information for creating MIDI Remote Scripts.
(All of the info is actually usable with any controller, except for the sites listed as "BeatStep specific")

🦖 Ableton API documentation

There's no official documentation for the python API of Ableton Live, but fortunately there are some unofficial versions available:

• nsuspray.github.io/Live_API_Doc/ - nicely formatted docs for all Ableton versions with collapsible sections
  • Ableton 11
  • Ableton 10.1.19
  • Ableton 9.7
• structure-void.com/PythonLiveAPI_documentation - similarly well structured docs for (nearly) all Ableton versions
  • Ableton 11
  • Ableton 10.1.19
  • Ableton 9.6

🦕 Decompiled MidiRemoteScripts

Here's a list of GitHub repositories containing decompiled python sources for the default MIDI Remote Scripts
... thanks to Julien Bayle for this! (checkout structure-void.com for more info on MidiRemoteScripts)

• Ableton 11
• Ableton 10
• Ableton 9

🦜 general sites with useful information

• Ableton forum post - Debugging Ableton Remote Scripts - How To
• remotescripts.blogspot.com - An Introduction to Ableton's Framework Classes

🐍 useful python modules

• mido - MIDI objects for Python
• remote-pdb - remote debugging
  (note that despite of the crowded repository, this is actually only a single script with 132 lines of code)

💻 useful software tools

• http://www.midiox.com/ - an all-purpose (Windows only) MIDI utility (... old but gold!)

🎛️ BeatStep specific sites

• untergeek.de - Taming Arturia’s Beatstep: Sysex codes
  A really nice site with a lot of information on MIDI sysex codes for the BeatStep controller
• Arturia Software Downloads - check the MIDI Control Center !