Wacom Tablet "support"

[leinad]

Hi, I have bought Live about a month ago, and I really love it.

About two weeks ago I bought a Wacom Tablet (Intuos), and have encountered small but sad problem with live.

The point is that the tablet allows to be mapped to the entire screen, so that the pen movement over the tablet maps to absolute screen cordinates, while a mouse has a relative movement. (Mouse movements add or substract to the current cursor position, while the Pen replaces the position absolutely)

Now, when using the pen and trying to change a volume slider, or a pan wheel, well any control at all, then the control goes crazy, it accellerates very fast so that it is not possible to really use it.

This is no real problem, since the tablet driver allows you to configure single applications if you want to use the pen in "absolute pen mode" or in "relative mouse mode". But since all my applications are configured to the default pen mode, it would be very nice to see a checkbox in the preferences to enable a special tablet mode. The problem in this mouse mode is that you see yourself forced to see as if you were pushing the cursor with the mouse instead of the pen actually being the cursor. This means that if the pen reaches the left end of the tablet but the cursor is still in the middle of the live ui, you have to raise the pen up enough so that the tablet does'nt sense it, move it to the right, lower it again, and continue pushing the cursor to the left until it reaches whatever was on the left of the ableton ui you wanted to click on.

If the controls in Live would be able to handle a tablet, then Live would behave like every other app (including the os) allowing user to have a consistent (and very effective) user experience.

Buy a tablet and get the sdk from wacoms page and include support for it in Live, and I'd be able to smile thankfully to you. A tablet is a fine thing to have.

Regards,
Daniel

[rozling]

Agreed!

[Poster]

+1

[tedriot]

take a look here:

http://www.livelab.dk/tablet2midi.php

[telekom]

hey tedriot,
That's a cool site - both Liveslice and tablet2midi look very useful. Slightly OT, but there was another thread a few months ago here with a link to a site where a beta was being developed to allow older ADB wacom tablets to be used with OSX (there's no support for this from Wacom, bah). I'll search and try to get the link in case this helps any frustrated tablet users. Cos I can't use mine with my PB right now.
M

[leinad]

And now, with the new Wacom Drivers, not even the mouse mode works as described in the first posting.

I don't want to go back and use my logitech mouse ONLY for Live : (((
NOOOOO.... well then, there it goes, click, click...

Please try to add Tablet support, please. Live is such a Kick A§$ product that tablet support makes it just perfect.

Daniel

[mrfart]

+1

[monkeybrainsushi]

YES YES YES TABLET SUPPORT

[epiphanius]

Just got my Wacom 4x5 on sale, and would like to promote this request.

Please!

[nabla]

Another vote for tablet functionality with live

Currently using Gateway S7200C. Adjusting knobs and sliders with digitizer is a bit finicky, very jumpy, ....very fustrating....though the xy field interaction works great.

[fso]

YES YES +1 please!

[Mas]

Me as well please... I have RSI from too much computer use and find mousing painful after about 1 minute... My Wacom tablet is fantastic... please think of adding this functionality in a future release...

Cheers

(Some programs like Lightwave 3D have a button in its user setup dialog box to switch between a mouse and a tablet input device...if that would make the implementation easier?)

[Poster]

bump..

[Poster]

bump..

[djod]

+1