vTouch - Control Ableton Live in a Webbrowser

VTouch is a multitouch browser frontend for Ableton Live. Inside your webbrowser you can control clip triggering, volume, send and return levels, mute, solo, record states. This works also on the network, so you can connect your mobile phone, iPads or android tablets easily by just browsing to you local webserver.

Ableton Live is an digital audio workstation, which is well suited for live performances. Lots of parameters can be manipulated, midi or audio loops can be triggered. Unfortunately it is cumbersome to use this software with a touch device. A user interface specifically designed to be used on multitouch devices, which is also portable across platforms, offers many benefits and possibilities. Imagine a whole band jamming on iPads with ohne live setup over a wireless network.

The frontend is rendered on HTML5 Canvas and communicates with a nodejs server via websockets. On the backend the webserver talks to a running ableton live instance and sends updates to all connected clients.

The canvas frontend is supported on all modern browsers including apple mobile safari and android browsers. We created a small widget library named canvas.ui to take care of multitouch events, rendering and layout management.

Source code: https://github.com/vnoise/vtouch
Berlin Music Hack Day 2011: http://wiki.musichackday.org/index.php?title=VTouch

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• musichackday
• berlin
• 2011
• multitouch
• ableton
• live
• control
• hacks
• canvas
• html5
• websockets
• nodejs
• ipad
• android

[Shenellingtons]

I just had a Nerdgasm!

[bradmongous]

this is awesome.... . Thanks guys !!

[FXG90]

Great! Perfekt!

You'll make it !