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Since the release of the iPad there has been a swarm of various apps marked "work in progress" or "in development", with nothing more than a few shiny screenshots to show and some weak launch dates, that is until recently with the launch of touchAble.
touchAble seems to do everything the others were bragging about, plus more, the difference is, touchAble is out now, and for sale in the iTunes store.
Lets take a look at some of the features
Clip grid
[*]Navigate around the set using touches.
[*]Need to go faster? Use more fingers!
[*]Clips & scenes with full color and name feedback
[*]8x15 clips in fullscreen, 8x7 clips in halfscreen allow a great overview over your set
[*]Access to arm & solo functions
[*]Playing position feedback inside clips- Grid always stays in sync with the set you're controlling
[*]Stop Toggle provides a safe, yet easy way to stop tracks & clips.
[*]Famous colored box around currently shown clips within Live
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
[/list] Pretty damn impressive. The product is already being actively used by live performers and there has been loads of very interesting clips posted on YouTube showing people getting creative with touchAble.
For Ableton users and iPad owners this is looking to be the "must have" accessory, I personally own both and also have my copy of touchAble and I love it, even though im still figuring it out.
Lets see some demo's
Dubspot have also posted some fantastic guides also, found here: http://blog.dubspot....hable-for-ipad/
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