03.01.2021

Ableton Mac Touch Bar

Got an Apple MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar? Got Ableton Live 9? From today they're both going to play better with each other thanks to pATHCES Ableton Live Touch Bar utility.

Ableton Live Mac Touch Bar

The Touch Bar on Apple's latest two models of MacBook Pro continues to pass under the radar for many. Think of it as essentially a touch screen strip above your keyboard and below the screen of your laptop. It's convenient, clever, useful and customizable.

I’m sure the Logic Pro X developers are streets ahead when it comes to designing how the Touch Bar could be used with Logic—and they’ve had a head start after all. I’m particularly interested to see how other DAWs like Ableton Live, Bitwig, Cubase and Pro Tools decide to utilize the Touch Bar.

While Apple have naturally added support for Touch Bar Macs in their creative applications like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro X, other companies have been slower to jump on the band wagon when it comes to providing built-in support for their DAWs.

Are 8GB RAM in a MacBook Pro 13 2017 w/o Touch Bar and 512GB SSD enough? Saved a few bucks (the entry price got still mindblowingly high) but as a DJ I need also a lot of storage, so i. The cover does not accurately fit the keyboard of a MacBook Pro, with the right half barely able to stay put on the QWERTY keyboard. Typing on the right half of the board resulted in the cover flipping up from the keys and flopping about beneath my fingers forcing me to stop working and reposition the cover.

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Fortunately, Better Touch Tool gives anyone the ability to adjust and modify system wide settings on the Mac. Using Better Touch Tool in conjunction with this new preset file, Ableton Live Touch Bar, from pATCHES also will provide your Touch Bar with specially designed presets of macros, shortcuts, & icons when using Ableton Live. Neat.

Here's a very brief overview of what Ableton Live Touch Bar can help you do. Remember it's free, but you'll need Better Touch Tool in order to run it.

Ableton Live Touch Bar Features

  • Save New Version: tapping this will initiate a macro that saves a new copy of your live set by adding a . (period) to the end of the current set
  • Create new track
  • Window sub-menu: gives you access to show or hide all the elements of Live's GUI.
  • Quickly Mute Tracks
  • Time Controls
  • Loop Brace

There are also options for transforming the Touch Bar on yoru MacBook Pro into a MIDI controller with MIDI Touch Bar regardless of the DAW you're using: https://ask.audio/articles/this-free-app-turns-new-apple-macbook-pro-into-capable-midi-controller

Price: Free, but requires Better Touch Tool

Web: http://patches.zone/ableton-live-touch-bar-macbook

Learn Ableton Live (no Touch Bar/MacBook Pro required) in the AskAudio Academy: https://ask.audio/academy?nleloc=application/Ableton

Ever since Apple's Touch Bar made its debut on the latest MacBooks — we've yet to see its addition as anything other than a clever gimmick.

Well, the gimmickry might be coming to an end as Ableton-centric site pATCHES has created its own unofficial Ableton support for Apple's much-maligned Touch Bar.

“After owning a new MacBook for some time now, I can report back to say the Touch Bar is no gimmick at all – everyday applications like Photoshop, Quicktime, and Premiere get a productivity boost with app-specific toolsets right at the top of your keyboard,' states the site.

“Ableton Live has not yet received any official support for the Touch Bar, so we at pATCHES put together this collection of icons, shortcuts, and macros to take advantage of the adaptable portion of your keyboard.”

The new preset adds shortcuts for some of Ableton's most important functions, including the save button, adding new audio, MIDI and return tracks, muting tracks, time controls and the ability to switch between Ableton's two main views.

To get the preset up and running on a Touch Bar-enabled MacBook, you'll need a piece of software called BetterTouchTool, which can be found on the pATCHES website, along with a breakdown of what the hack can actually do.

Ableton Mac Touch Bar Reviews

Garageband ipad versus mac. Currently the preset is free for the first 45 day thanks to a BetterTouchTool's free trial, but after that, you'll need to purchase a license that costs £6.50.

Recently, some clever bods turned classic retro arcade games into music making tools for Ableton Live, which you can see here.

For more information on the Touch Bar preset, head here.

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