Just lol…
About the pattern change, have a look at this: Receiving Program Change Messages Not Responding Immediately
Maybe you are able to put the program change a little bit before the next pattern in Ableton?[/quote]
What you mean by your lollery? Using live to control all aspects of the Rytm could potentially yield very powerful results. But I kinda stopped using live for anything else than recoding / editing audio, so will not be personally investigating into this further.
Someone good with M4L could come up with some very interesting contraptions, no doubt about it.[/quote]
I think that when you have such a powerful sequencer, it’s really not appropriate to decide to not using it anymore only because you can’t send a program change at the right moment to change the pattern. But as we can read, the author of the thread is aiming to do exactly what you said, so finally you were right. 