Tip - changing patterns on the Maschine JAM without changing focus

This should be fixable by changing the code to call JamHelper.getGroupOffset before switching pattern, then JamHelper.setGroupOffset after switching, something like this (note this is untested):

        local CurrentOffset = JamHelper.GetGroupOffset()
        if HasFocus then

            if FocusSection then

                NI.DATA.SectionAccess.removePattern(App, FocusSection, Group)

            else -- In Idea Space we work on Scenes directly.

                NI.DATA.SceneAccess.removePattern(App, FocusScene, Group)

            end

        else

            NI.DATA.GroupAccess.insertPatternAndFocus(App, Group, Pattern)

        end

        if FocusGroup ~= GroupIndex then
            JamHelper.SetGroupOffset(CurrentOffset)

            MaschineHelper.setFocusGroup(FocusGroup + 1, false)

        end

re: "I wished anyway I could use more controllers at the same time for different groups, e.g. KKS49 for one group and Maschine for another one."

In my most recent post, I show my setup which when I select drum group on the Mk3, has its pads controlling that group, but the KKS keys controlling the last selected non-drum group. But there was a lot of complexity involved getting that working.

I just did a quick test, this is the working code:

function PatternHelper.focusPatternByGroupAndByIndex(GroupIndex, PatternIndex, CreateIfEmpty)



    if PatternIndex == nil or PatternIndex < 0 or GroupIndex == nil or GroupIndex < 0 then

        return

    end



    local FocusGroup = NI.DATA.StateHelper.getFocusGroupIndex(App)

    local Group = MaschineHelper.getGroupAtIndex(GroupIndex)



    if Group then



        local Pattern = Group:getPatterns():find(PatternIndex)



        if Pattern then



            local FocusSection = NI.DATA.StateHelper.getFocusSection(App)

            local FocusScene = NI.DATA.StateHelper.getFocusScene(App)

            local FocusScenePattern = FocusScene and NI.DATA.SceneAccess.getPattern(FocusScene, Group)

            local HasFocus = Pattern == FocusScenePattern

            local CurrentOffset = NHLController:getContext():getGroupOffsetParameter():getValue()


            if HasFocus then

                if FocusSection then

                    NI.DATA.SectionAccess.removePattern(App, FocusSection, Group)

                else -- In Idea Space we work on Scenes directly.

                    NI.DATA.SceneAccess.removePattern(App, FocusScene, Group)

                end

            else

                NI.DATA.GroupAccess.insertPatternAndFocus(App, Group, Pattern)

            end

            if FocusGroup ~= GroupIndex then

                MaschineHelper.setFocusGroup(FocusGroup + 1, false)

                NI.DATA.ParameterAccess.setSizeTParameter(App, NHLController:getContext():getGroupOffsetParameter()

, CurrentOffset)


            end



        elseif CreateIfEmpty == true then

            -- note: AudioPatterns can't currently be empty, so CreateIfEmpty is n/a

            PatternHelper.insertNewPattern(PatternIndex, Group)

        end



    end



end