Odd Live Behaviour with Wacom Tablet/Mouse

[fader8]

Hi,
Live 7, OS 10.4.9, G5 Quad, Wacom Intuous2.

I'm contacting Wacom about this, but was just wondering if anyone else with a Wacom tablet had this problem.

I cannot use the Wacom with Ableton Live. Something is totally off with the scaling making it impossible to adjust a fader or drag any rotary control in Live. I can click, drag clips, or any other normal mousing function but I can't control anything. If I try to slide a fader up, it slams up or down, etc. I do have an old Apple Pro optical mouse for use with Live, which works fine, so I can get by.

Of 228 applications on this Mac, and about 350 plug-ins from 30 different manufacturers, Live is the only app that behaves this way. With the exception of Waves RTAS plugs, which I have an intermittent problem with in Pro Tools, but I don't think its related. I could be wrong. Anxious to hear what Wacom has to say about it.

[fader8]

OK, that's odd. I did a forum search before I posted the above and nothing came up when searching for "Wacom". But I just did another search and found a whole mess of activity on this subject! OK, so I'm not alone.

But that doesn't make me feel any better about it!

[tuscland]

Hi,

I am having the exact same problem with the Wacom Mouse in Live 7 / Mac OS X Leopard. It is impossible to use Live because all faders/rotary controls are totally acting weird.


Best,
Cam

[fader8]

Can anyone advise if the lack of support for Wacom tablets has been addressed in Live 8?

[Angstrom]

wacom tablets are supported in Live 8 through the use of a special command entered into the users Options.txt

wacom tablets and absolute positioning devices were not supported in L7 and earlier.

[fader8]

wacom tablets are supported in Live 8 through the use of a special command entered into the users Options.txt

wacom tablets and absolute positioning devices were not supported in L7 and earlier.

Lovely. Thank you. Great to know! I guess I'll upgrade after all.

[SuperDopeBeatMaker]

wacom tablets are supported in Live 8 through the use of a special command entered into the users Options.txt

wacom tablets and absolute positioning devices were not supported in L7 and earlier.

Brilliant, this might just make me buy ableton!

[reezymcawesome]

How do you make a wacom tablet mouse work in live 8? i have been experiencing the same problem

[Angstrom]

Firstly you need to know and understand what options.txt is
http://www.ableton.com/pages/faq/options_text


Secondly you need to use that knowledge to make one (create a text file in the required location), and put this line in it. Exactly as it is presented here



-AbsoluteMouseMode



now open Live, the Wacom will now work correctly on all the dials, faders, other GUI stuff, etc

[reezymcawesome]

thanks

[geekbeats]

I just purchased a "small" Intuos4 Wacom tablet, created the options.txt and it works flawlessly!

Thanks for the information!