The fantastic touchAble Ableton Touch controller app developed by programmer Christian Blomert, in partnership with French producer Sylvain "Le K" Garcia is an all-in-one Ableton controller with plenty of tricks up its sleeve. In addition to clip launching, the app offers mixing features, device controls, MPC-style pads and on-screen keyboards. The new touchAble 1.2 update provides an entirely new module, a multi-ball XY Pad among others new features and improvements. You can check out the features of the new 1.2 XY module with this youtube demo. With its powerful yet easy integration into Live, its six different modules (Clip grid, Mixer, Devices, Keys, Pads, XY Pad) and two command menus (Clip & Transport) touchAble covers nearly every control element of Lives session view. Musicians all around the world can finally directly touch Ableton Live and focus on what they love: Music. Ableton Live 8 users who want to get to get the best from their favourite DAW, and maximise Live intuitive interface should think to use touchAble instead of a traditional hardware controller. The touchAble community currently has more than 8000 users, and is growing fast…among its many fans are producers like Henrik Shwarz, Funkagenda, Michael Woods, Sebastien Leger, Soulclap, Marco Passarani, Kate Simko, Vernon Reid, Johannes Heil, Robert Henke and many more. Grab a copy of touchAble here from the App Store.
