Clip grid

  1. • Navigate around the set using touches.

  2. •Need to go faster? Use more fingers!

  3. • Clips & scenes with full color and name feedback

  4. • 8x15 clips in fullscreen, 8x7 clips in halfscreen allow a great overview over your set.

  5. • Access to arm & solo functions

  6. • Playing position feedback inside clips- Grid always stays in sync with the set you're controlling

  7. • Stop Toggle provides a safe, yet easy way to stop tracks & clips.

  8. • Famous colored box around currently shown clips within Live


Mixer 

• Unlimited tracks, navigate with the touch-sensitive cross.

• Volumes, returns A-D, panning, monitors, resets, master & return volumes

• 2 different modes in fullscreen: Mode 8 to control two different parameters for the same 8 tracks, Mode 16 to 
   control 16 tracks at once.

• Scared of clipping? Output-meters provide feedback of each tracks/masters/returns output-levels.

• Mute-buttons for each track


Devices

• Intuitive device selection screen using touch scrolling. Toggle mode to enable & disable devices from the
   overview.

• Compatible with vsts, audio-units and native live plugins

• Native Templates for few of Lives devices More will be added in the next updates.

• Choose between 3 device modes: Native Mode, FX8 with 8 and FX32 with 32 parameters to be controlled at
   once.

• Navigate and control unlimited parameters with bank switches

• Never lose a parameter in the heat of a set: parameter name & value feedback directly inside the faders.

• FX8 & FX32: Different fader-colors differentiate continuous parameters and multistate-toggles.

• Control 2 devices at the same time  


Keys

• 17 note Keyboard

• Touch & scroll Octave-selector

• 2 velocity modes: global or range

• Range velocity mode provides 5 velocity steps within the same key: Press the key on top for low velocity, press it
   on bottom for maximum velocity

• Keys change colour to reflect current level of velocity

• Tweak the minimal velocity during range mode with the provided slider

• Perform with 2 keyboards in full screen mode


Pads

• 8 or 16 pads mode

• Touch & scroll Pad-selector

• 2 velocity modes: global or range

• Range velocity mode with 5 different steps

• Pads change colour to reflect current level of velocity


Clip & Transport control

• Change parameters of clips : pitch, detune, loop, length, position

• Easy access to transport functions: play/stop, midi overdub, cue level, metronome, nudge up/down, midi record
   and launch quantization

FEATURE  LIST

VIDEO:      We proudly present the features of touchAble

New Features:


Interaction

  1. •We enabled multitasking (needs iOS 4.2)

  2. •We added a “Disable Sleep” option

  3. •Changeable track width: show 8/4/2 tracks at once - Great for Live-performances!

  4. •Changeable clip height: normal size & double size

  5. •If you decide to show 4 or 2 tracks instead of 8, the mixer-view will automatically show more parameters at once.

  6. •2 tracks-mode will show volume, send A+B and another parameter of your choice per track.

  7. •We added “momentary solo/cue buttons”: a short tap on solo/cue will toggle it on / off, a long tap will toggle on when you begin the touch and toggle off when you lift your finger

  8. •We added optional “relative faders”: Instead of jumping to your fingers position the faders will only move the amount that your finger moved before


Transport

  1. •Dedicated stop button

  2. •Dedicated record button

  3. •Tempo Control: Drag with your Finger over the BPM counter to increase / decrease the tempo. To change it faster start on the left side, to do it slower drag on the right side

  4. •Current song position display


Improvements:


Communication between touchAble and Live

  1. •We optimized the way touchAble connects to Live - the connection is now even more reliable, stable and faster

  2. •We changed the process of communication between touchAble and Live: Loading & reloading clips is now 10x faster!

• touchAble will automatically be synced and stay updated if you load a new set

  1. •If you delete / add tracks the set will be updated in the background, no annoying wait-times anymore ;-)

  2. •Server App defaults to touchAble 1 for iPad 1 & touchAble 2 for iPad 2. On Windows it will default do MIDI Yoke 1 & 2


Graphic User Interface

  1. •Inertia Scrolling in all Live-related modules (Clips, Mixer, Devices)

  2. •Trigger, recording & stopping animations on clips

  3. •Moving one view from top to bottom or the other way around will no longer leave the old half empty. The views will switch

  4. •Lots of design-changes throughout the app. New menu-bar, mixer, clips, cross and more

  5. •eq8: added highlight to currently selected dot



Bugfixes:

• Fixed: Clips now show playstatus after new load / reload

• Fixed: clips without names now don’t show the name of the clip processed
   before

• Fixed: a scene without a name doesn’t use anymore the name the scene
   processed before

  1. •Fixed: an issue that rendered the bottom left corner unresponsive

  2. •Fixed unreadable text on white clips.

***IMPORTANT***
After updating - Please download the new
Server & Scripts for version 1.3.2 /1.3.3
***IMPORTANT***

version 1.1.0 - what changed

New Features:


  1. •Different colors for stop toggles depending on the playing status of the corresponding track

  2. •Send & volume faders reflect the color of the corresponding track in Live

  3. •A second tap on "Volume" in the Mixer-menu while showing 4 tracks will enable slim Volume + Send A/B/C faders at once for each track.

  4. •Do a long tap on a clip to focus its waveform within Live and select it for Clip Manipulation

  5. •Momentary mode on Device Page. When toggle mode is active (Button in the lower left corner of the device module) you can do a long press on a device to only momentarily change its state. To toggle the device do a short tap.

  6. •Playing position indicator for non-looped clips.

  7. •for clips that start playing normally and start looping at a later time we added a playing position indicator that shows the time remaining till the loop (up to 16 bars)

  8. •Clips & Stop buttons now flash in sync with the bpm of the set currently controlled


Bugfixes:

• Under some circumstances it was not possible to enable / disable devices

• Stop button for track 1 not flashing

• Meters not being shown after changing width of clips

version 1.1.1 - what changed

version 1.0.0 -

New Features:


NEW XYZ Pad module:

  1. •Up to 4 Dots at once - each with their own X, Y & Z Parameters.

  2. •Choose the dots X, Y & Z Parameters from All of Lives Mixer & Device.

  3. •Easy parameter assignments through the config menu.

  4. •Set direction & force of gravity and bouncing mode individually for each dot.

  5. •Record the dots movements - loop, reverse or cut them till they fit your needs.

  6. •Play them back as automations - quantized and in complete sync with Ableton Live.

  7. •Save automations and parameter assignments to the database within touchAble and exchange them with other iPads and Users via iTunes.

  8. •Save snapshots of the dots positions: Hold, Stop & Morphing mode.

  9. •Set morphing length & which of the are dots affected by snapshots.


NEW 'Snap' mode:

  1. •You can activate the Snap mode per device with the 'snap' button in the Menu to the right.

  2. •If enabled, the control elements will snap back to their original value once you lift your finger.

  3. •To change the original value of the parameters: disable Snap mode - tweak the device to your needs and enable Snap mode again to jump back to these values at the end of your touches.


Device Module:

  1. •The Control elements on the FX8 & FX32 View now switch their behavior & style depending on the parameter they control.

  2. •Possible styles are: Toggle, Multitoggle, Fader & centered Fader.

  3. •This will work with Lives devices & all M4L Devices.


New optional settings:

  1. •Added Relative Fader mode for devices

  2. •Added possibility to disable scene launch buttons.

  3. •Added OneTap Recording:

  4. •Newly recorded clips will automatically be of the same length as the currently set Launch Quantization. This enables you to tap on an empty slot once to start recording and have it loop automatically after the set amount of time.


General:

  1. •Decreased latency and increased throughput to Live substantially.

  2. •Performance increased throughout the app.


Bugfixes:


  1. •Mixer showing Send A Faders in black when more than 4 sends were present in the set.

  2. •Fixed overlapping Faders in 4 Track mode when more than 4 sends were present in the set.

  3. •Keys & Pads start at C3/C2 now instead of C-2.

  4. •Numerous small changes & fixes.

version 1.2 - what changed

New Features:


Clips:

- added Loop menu to clip module. Do loops on the fly - on whole tracks or on already prepared loops. think Traktor looping - Keep loops that you like.

- added keep loop feature which allow you to save the new loop made as new clip.

- Added beatjump / loopjump menu to clip module. Do beatjump / loopjump of a set size in the currently playing clip of a track.

- track header buttons in the clip module now function as 'jump to active clip' buttons. For group-tracks they allow to fold and unfold the tracks.



Mixer:

Completely rebuilt mixer: 

- added crossfader to mixer 

- added A/B control to mixer

- added support for as many sends as you like + name of the send tracks are now displayed.

- added possibility to show as many faders at once as you like - and you can decide which!.

- added the possibility to control return tracks the same way you can control normal tracks

- added "+" mode to fullscreen for double length faders for precision tasks

- added snap mode to mixer


Drums: 

- added velocity sensitivity mode to drum pads


Devices:

- Added Impulse native template

- Added Auto Filter native template

- Added Pingpong Delay native template

- Track Header buttons in the Device Selection View will switch Lives view to the device chain of the respective track.


XYPad:

- snapshots will be saved with saved templates of XY pad now

- after morphing / playing / stopping snapshots the dots will not be affected by gravity till touched


General:

- Added support for 4 iPads

- Added possibility to link several ipads and setting their relative positions.

- touchable will prefer a wired connection if available (MyWi etc)

- design & layout changes throughout the app

- added 16 tracks mode 

- triple quick taps on relative faders will: bring the fader to max value if it is done on top of the fader, bring the fader to the exact middle value if you tap around the middle part, and bring the fader to 0 value if you tap on the bottom part.


- Finally touchable will connect via bonjour - tests show that almost no setup is needed to connect - there even is a new auto-connect feature!


New Settings: 


Clips: 

Lock navigation in Clip grid - On / Off: 

-If enabled, clips will start immediately after touching - but you won't be able to scroll in the clip grid


Slide Clips to launch in Nav Lock Mode - On / Off: 

-Makes it possible to slide e.g. a row of clips in different tracks to start them


Devices: 

Always Open Device View 8 - On / Off: 

-If enabled, devices will always show the FX8 view instead of switching to FX32 for devices with more parameters.


Mixer: 

Relative Crossfader - On / Off: 

-same as relative faders elsewhere - just for the crossfader <icon_wink.gif>


Hide Mutes - On/Off: 

-If enabled, mutes are hidden from the view.


Max Shown Controls for 2/4/8/16 tracks mode (0-8, 0 being disabled):

-You can set the maximum amount of controls shown per channel in each of the different sizes. When changing size the mixer will automatically show/hide faders depending on your preference.


General:

Link iPads - On / Off: 

- enables or disables automatic following of secondary ipads.



Bugfixes:


  1. •Mixer showing Send A Faders in black when more than 4 sends were present in the set.

  2. •Fixed overlapping Faders in 4 Track mode when more than 4 sends were present in the set.

  3. •Keys & Pads start at C3/C2 now instead of C-2.

  4. •Numerous small changes & fixes.

version 1.3 - what changed