Tablet pen support

[ThomasHelzle]

How wonderful would it be if I could be using my Wacom pen with Live as I can with every other software and every plugin I use with Live.

Most of the interface works anyway, only sliders are extemely oversensitiv and impossible to set precisely.

Yes I have a mouse and yes I can enter some stuff numerically, but for me it would be a wonderful addition to be able to use 100% pen instead of switching all the time when moving a slider/rotary control (I hate the mouse with all my heart )

I had hopes it would be possible in 8 but so far the beta doesn't improve the pen situation.

And no I will not switch to mouse mode, thank you very much

Thanks a lot!

Thomas

[nullpunkt]

Since a few days I'm a proud owner of a Schenker Tablet-Laptop. Yesterday I installed "Live" and tried to work it out with the pen. Thomas, you're right... the sliders are oversensitive - and the rotary-knobs are too!

I thought that's a problem I can solve by setting the tablet-drivers or the live-functions right ... but now that seems not to be the right way.

In case Thomas is right, please Ableton, try to make such thinks like Wacoms or Tablet-PCs work!

[ThomasHelzle]

Yes and zooming/moving the timeline (which isn't much fun in live anyway IMO) is also weird.

I guess it's the old "virtual sliders" problem that was pretty common 10 years ago, even Kais Powertools didn't work well with a Tablet back then, and that was in the graphics industry where a lot of people use pens.
But today, Live is actually my only software (and I use quite a lot of apps) that gives this headache (or wristache ).

Would be very cool to get this fixed finally!

Thank you!

Thomas

[rutgermuller]

wacom pen in 'mouse mode' works fine, though that's not a real solution

my body loves pens more than mice

[snakedogman]

tablet support has been requested many many times, but seems to be problematic to implement. We've been told it's on the list for a future update but no timeframe was given.

[ThomasHelzle]

Yes, I requested it also some years ago and got the same answer, but at the moment I have to have a mouse attached to my machine ONLY for Live which sucks.
I guess it will never be implemented if we don't keep asking for it.

I can't say how much work it would actually be for them - but everything else works just fine with the tablet in pen mode so it feels a bit funny that it should be such a big deal.
It could even be some hidden switch in an .ini file if they think it would confuse the average user or bloat the preferences.

Cheers!

Thomas

[leinad]

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php? ... 55&start=0

[rutgermuller]

Could this topic be merged with http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=108829 please?

[djod]

+1

[n1n0]

yes +1 please fix. Wacom tablet is so much better then a mouse for me. Ableton Live is the only app that does not support the wacom tablet correctly. Faders, knobs, etc. seem to jump to max/min value and are almost impossible to set. Zoom is very hard to control and also wants to jump to max/min. And, I loose functionality over my MBP mouse in all other apps and the OS when I use the wacom tablet with Ableton Live.