VJ Heaven

Check out the dubspot blog to learn more: bit.ly Learn how to use touchAble, the iPad app that allows you to control Ableton Live. In this three part video series we take you through the basics of the Touchable interface, how to control Live with Touchable and how to use it for composition.

Check out the dubspot blog to learn more: bit.ly Learn how to use Touchable, the iPad app that allows you to control Ableton Live. In this three part video series we take you through the basics of the Touchable interface, how to control Live with Touchable and how to use it for composition.

TouchAble App for iPad is available worldwide exclusively through the iTunes App Store www.itunes.com touchAble is an unique iPad app is the first application to give Ableton Live users full control over their digital audio workstation, without the tiresome process of manual midi-mapping. touchAble allows live users to walk away from their computer and perform live from anywhere within Wi-Fi range (using ad-hoc connection or router) while keeping latency at a minimum. TouchAble App includes 6 advanced modules, Clip grid, Mixer, Devices, Pads, Keys, XY Pad, and 2 commands menu : clips and transport. TouchAble provides a powerful, intuitive and reliable multitouch control solution for professional use. TouchAble includes templates for lives plugins and is fully compatible with vsts, audiounits and instruments. TouchAble is supported by many professional musicians, performers, djs and composers around the world, who use touchAble on stage or in studio. FUTURE MUSIC UK: “You may think about touchAble and an iPad instead of a hardware controller. A compliment indeed.” MUSICTECH MAG UK: “It can handle the majority of performance or interactive elements within Live without requiring any manual controller design or mapping, making it an easy-to-use but nonetheless powerful Live controller.” 9/10 MUSICRADAR.COM UK: “The cheaper, more fully featured touchAble is a clear all-round winner. Its advanced control options give it the advantage in terms of power and make it the obvious …

touchAble for iPad is available on itunes store : www.itunes.com more info: www.touch-able.com Forum touch-able.com Le K ( soundcloud.com using touchAble to control ableton Live. Navigate around your live set with the touch of a finger, control mixer, instruments and fx with full automapping and unlimited tracks & parameters. Play your favourite synths with the unique double keyboard or record your rhythms with the 128 drum pads, both with 5 step velocity. Access most important transport and clip functions without losing focus on your set and tweak the same set with several iPads with the unique Multi-user-mode.

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This movie is “Mirage Pad Harmonizer ver0.714″ Demonstration. It’s will be Touchable VJ Software De-facto Standard near future. tag Visual Jockey Disc Jockey VJ DJ House Techno Electronic Perume Nakata Yasutaka capsule Sakamo Ryuichi YMO Aphex Twin Adam Massive Attack Johnson Cornelius Jazztronik KORG Yamaha Roland Native Instrument FL studio Cubase Arturia CG Art Motion dive tokyo arkaos vj dmx midi video movie computer graphics siggraph eurographics ieee acm amazing future movie music club underworld chemical brothers prodigy denki groove sce sony computer entertainment avex warner brothers Metamatics Minister Mondo Grosso New Order Pet Shop Boys The Orb The Prodigy Yellow Magic Orchestra テクノ クラブ アート 芸術 コンピュータグラフィック エレクトロニック ビデオ 映像 音楽 パヒューム 坂本龍一 石野卓球 電気グルーヴ コーネリアス 驚愕 タッチ タッチセンサー ソフトウェア android iphone デモ

Ander sends us his creation, “Station,” a brilliant-looking MIDI controller built on the ucapps.de hardware platform. It could easily have qualified for the kinds of designs in the dreams competition – except he went ahead and made it. He filled it in with RGB LEDs, touch pads, and new SMD-based hardware.

The impact of the colored LEDs is something that provides some of the visual feedback of a touchscreen, but with real, tactile control and the satisfaction of using something physical. I challenge the iPad running TouchOSC (or Lemur, or anything else) to a smackdown with this gorgeous beast. Even as a fan of some of the advantages of touch, I suspect the iPad would lose rather spectacularly.

I asked Ander for more technical details:

have a look at MIDIbox of the Week: Station MIDI controller by Ander – MIDIbox Forum There is a diagram about the LEDs and knobs. For the touch pads I am using force sensors at the moment, but they are terribly expensive. I will be switching to FSRs

Some stats, if you want to know more just ask.

- based on the open hardware platform ucapps.de
- Aluminium casing, custom made
- Acrylic knobs, also custom made
- Modularized, can be made into any form
- Flexible PCB: can hold sensors, encoders and/or buttons
- Custom firmware on the microcontrollers
- Custom software interface on the host computer which interfaces via MIDI (in my case to Live)
- RGB LEDs, 24bit color depth (technically)
- USB interface (plus power, this thing needs a lot of power for all these LEDs)
- I have not counted the buttons

It’s an epic piece of work, a real testament to the efforts of its builder. We’ll need a new category of competition, for things other people already made that we dream about / covet anyway.

Nerd alert: Ander, the name “Station” is a reference to Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, and “Do you want to know more?” in the YouTube description to Starship Troopers … right? (Actually, even if I’m wrong, I’ve just identified myself as a dork cinematic connoisseur.)

Thanks to cooptrol for the tip, too!

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