I’ve been beta testing this new tablet Ableton Live controller Knobbler. There was a TouchOsc profile before, but now there’s a native tablet app that comes with a free Knobbler Live device for the Live12 connection. It connects over wifi and works absolutely great.
The app automatically maps faders with one press, including labels, colour-codes and the right parameter type.
There has been some talk of the earlier touchosc profile in the Live 12 topic, but this deserves a special topic. The app is available now in the app store.
A truly highly recommended work of love and class!
Any questions, please ask me or Zack, the great guy that made this. This video of a previous version is a nice intro:
Jasper
PS: other then some minor testing, I have no affiliation whatsoever.
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even worse, for some reason all the cobbler that I’ve ordered in the last year at least has been made with biscuits, now wtf is that?
and I was talking to this guy in santa monica last weekend about the strawberry shortcake he was selling me and it was made with biscuits too… what the hell is going on with biscuits, I have nothing against them but you don’t make any kind of peach cobbler or strawberry shortcake with biscuits I mean ‘shortcake’ is in the name of the dessert for petes sakes!!!
I’m intrigued. I have TouchAble but the virtual server setup can be frustrating. Handling that side of things with a Max For Live device sounds like it could improve things in that regard at the very least
I’m with you, I had that last year as well. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t bad per se, but it just wasn’t cobbler. It was like a cobbler in sheep’s clothing.
Some babylonian mess here. I had to look cobbler up. Although it looks very good and makes me hungy too, Knobbler is easier to combine with a healthy livestyle, no Ozempic needed. And, it works great with our favourite DAW!
It works better, also communication wise, than rhe OSC version.
Impulse bought just now. Totally worth the 9$ just for the automap/autonaming alone!
Everything just WORKS. I was up and running in <5 minutes. Bidirectional feedback. Auto color mapping. The native integration (blue hand / selected device) works great and the layout is very easy to understand. The 16 automap faders on the 2 customizable pages works well too. Select something in live, tap the fader, and its auto colored, auto named, and auto mapped. Doesn’t get any easier than that!
Biggeest drawback: everything is faders and the UI layout isnt customizable. If you’re into touchOSC/lemur and setting up your own layouts, this aint for you. If you just need something that works out of the box and that saves you an hour or two mapping and naming everything, this is easily worth the 9 bucks.
I have a gig overseas in SF next month and can’t bring my hardware synths, so I’m going hybrid with some VSTs - this looks perfect.
I also hope he will open up the UI for customization. XY pads and encoders would be nice for a start, and customizing size/placement. But i have to admit the faders are good for controlling multiple parameters simultaneously with one hand.
Thanks for posting! This seems really nice. Love how simple the mapping implementation is, just dragging an empty slider to map the active control is such an elegant solution
Bit the bullet and grabbed this, after a frustrating couple of hour diagnosing typical network bollocks, I’ve got it working nicely, tbh it’s a bit of a revelation to have so much control put at your finger tips, honestly I’m blown away at the value for money on offer here… it’s definitely going to be a permanent fixture in my set up…
Yeah I’m on windows too, for some reason and I’m not quite sure if it’s my router or a quirk of the networking but I had to turn of the extended upnp feature of my router and manually type the ip address of my iPad into the knobbler device to get them to connect, also I assigned the iPad a static ip and on the iPad I turned of the rotating wifi address and made that static too…
I had to look cobbler up. Although it looks very good and makes me hungy too, Knobbler is easier to combine with a healthy livestyle, no Ozempic needed. And, it works great with our favourite DAW!
