![]() ![]() Isomorphic keyboard with adjustable scale and key mode: lets anyone easily play scales and chords in key so everything sounds great – just like found on the Push. ![]() Here are the main features Touchable 2 aims to emulate and enhance, versus the pricier hardware solution of purchasing a Push: Touchable 2 takes the best parts about the Ableton Push controller and shrinks them down into an iPad or iPad Mini ( the app is compatible with all iPads, even the first generation). NO PUSH, NO PROBLEM Side by side: Push vs. Clips launched immediately upon being touched, the transport section would play and stop instantly, and playing a drum rack was super responsive. Even without running an ad hoc wireless network, there was almost zero latency between the iPad and Ableton. In Touchable 2, Zerodebug has kept most of the same workflow as the original, but completely refined and rebuilt the app (and it shows). Last month, the second version of Touchable was released after nearly six months of teasing. Users could choose to split between clips, mixer, devices, x&y pad, or keys and drums. REBUILT AND REFINEDīerlin-based developers Zerodebug originally launched Touchable for iPad control of Ableton Live back in 2010. In its first iteration, the app offered a flexible split screen workflow. There’s very little this controller can’t do. The Bottom Line: Touchable has made the definitive Ableton touch controller. Tight control over clips, mixer, transport, and devices. The app is like having a Push in your iPad. The Good: Completely rebuilt, browser, flexible workflow. System Requirements: iOS 5.1 or later – iPad only Find out how it stacks up against the other Ableton iOS control apps out there – and against the Push hardware itself.Ĭommunication: Wi-Fi (works best with an Ad-Hoc wireless network) Ableton (or Propellerhead, or Steinberg…eh probably not Steinberg) foresees this scenario, and is working on it.Ready for a wireless, cheap controller that gives you control of almost everything in Ableton? Today we’re looking at the brand new Touchable 2 app from Zerodebug.Ableton continues serving its desktop users until said users get bored and try out whatever this new hotness is. Some tiny audio software company just might make the next big thing – a universal DAW type app that runs perfectly on iOS, eschews cheesy design language, and propels the platform into an era of true audio productivity. The next big thing is out there, incubating, or maybe exists already in nascent form.Why haven’t we seen the giant leap forward in audio software that we saw in 2001? Who is the Ableton of today? What spunky new company is going to win the hearts and minds of producers, engineers and DJ’s today? The iPad (3) is fully capable of doing what a 2001 Mac could do – audio, storage, and throughput-wise. While my thoughts on the iPad as a desktop replacement are well documented, I think future generations will look back to January 2010 in the same way we watch the 1984 introduction of the Mac today – an historic turning point in how we use technology.Īnyone still using Digital Performer? *cricket* *cricket* That’s what I thought. November 2009: Ableton releases Max for Live released a few months ahead of iOS 4 and of course, the iPad. Very shortly after this, Ableton Live version 1.1 was first announced, and was one of the first DAW’s to run natively on OSX. The cool kids used MOTU to do recordings. At this point, Ableton was still being invented. November 2001: MOTU Digital Performer v3 released about the same time as OSX 10.1 “Cheetah”. Let’s say it takes 4-5 years for this platform to really take over, and people are really using it as their main platform for general purpose computing. Widely used, lauded as one of the best of its kind by professionals in the targeted field. Let’s pretend we’re Ableton – laser-focused on our one product. ![]() This should be priority number one for Ableton as it should have done this already.” I want Live running on iPad, or at least some kind of ‘connected’ app, like Propellerhead’s Figure app. “Ableton is going to get its ass severely kicked if I don’t see some acknowledgement of iOS. While many requested very specific, super-technical type things, I think Martin Delaney nails the elephant in the room: Music Radar interviewed quite a few A-list EDM producers on their desired features in Live 9. ![]()
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