TDAbleton - TouchDesigner Ableton Connection

Wow! Sending midi directly to Ableton!
I have been dreaming of this! Especially for bypassing MaxMSP (Glad I didn’t get a chance to to dig to deep into the Osc to Midi conversion yet, means more time to do actual work;)

Experimental version 1.2.0

Ableton log file should be found automatically on connection
Log file viewer has refresh button
TDAbletonDemo contains example for connecting to 2 Ableton instances with one TD

Anyone getting an error message when changing scenes in the latest version?

Ack I see it! Will make bug fix today.

Version 1.3.0 posted.

  • Fix for scene change error.
  • MIDI pitch bend sent to TDAbleton is now a float value -1.0 to 1.0 (Newly released Max 7.3.4 has bug fixed that previously didn’t allow this)

Sweet! I thought I was going crazy as I tried it on 2 different machines. Thanks! @Ivan

@Ivan, is it normal to get these callbacks when scenes are triggered? Initially I thought these were errors in 1.2 but still getting them in 1.3.

sceneTriggered callback {‘sceneNum’: 0, ‘ownerComp’: type:baseCOMP path:/project1/Demo/abletonSong1, ‘sceneInfo’: OrderedDict([(‘name’, ‘one’), (‘tempo’, -1.0), (‘index’, 0), (‘expression’, ‘scenes[0]’), (‘ptr’, 4778742596)]), ‘callbackName’: ‘onSceneTriggered’, ‘sceneName’: ‘one’}
(Debug: line 18 of /project1/Demo/abletonSong1_callbacks)
python >>>
sceneStarted callback {‘sceneNum’: 0, ‘ownerComp’: type:baseCOMP path:/project1/Demo/abletonSong1, ‘sceneInfo’: OrderedDict([(‘name’, ‘one’), (‘tempo’, -1.0), (‘index’, 0), (‘expression’, ‘scenes[0]’), (‘ptr’, 4778742596)]), ‘callbackName’: ‘onSceneStarted’, ‘sceneName’: ‘one’}
(Debug: line 29 of /project1/Demo/abletonSong1_callbacks)

Yeah those are the demo callbacks

ok Perfect, I figured as much as they do have some info one might want to know. Thanks again!

@Ivan I also realized when trying to use a Live Set that is not your Test set, I am unable to connect to TD, is there a special setup for a new set?

Make sure that your port and ip settings are correct. If you are have both TD and Ableton running on the same machine, it should just work. Otherwise, you need to set IP address for sure. If you aren’t sure about your ports, add the TDA_Master device to your master track and double-check that way.

If you still can’t connect, send your Ableton log file, your .toe and your Ableton Set (if you can) to ivan@derivative.ca and I’ll take a look.

Sent you an email @Ivan

Posted version 1.3.1

  • Connection bug fix

Looks great, guessing this replaces TouchDesignerAbletonSync.toe though TD099 still ships with it?

Correct. Please post if the old version has features that you need that aren’t in TDAbleton.

Got it, never done a lot more than checking out the sample projects for the old one so looking forward to this!

Note to anyone using the experimental version…

If you get an error on startup about stripsegments parameter, it means you need the latest TD release. I incorporated a newly developed feature.

Posted version 1.3.2

  • Project saved in TD official instead of experimental to avoid startup msgs

Thanks Ivan!

would it be possible to song/info/time into the time path to get TD to follow Ableton on the time line?