Touch Screen Support

[djchokstar]

HI, I've been testing Live 10 with a touchscreen convertible laptop for performance. Currently there are some workarounds however the Live 10 application could easily be updated? to support the following features in addition to the New pen and tablet mode - which seems to work across the interface correctly.
They are :

1. Long press support to bring up edit / right click /contextual menus.
2. Gesture support
3. Multi touch to support more than one simultaneous touch point at a time - ex. dragging a envelope in an instrument on one side of the screen.

Now, The option to switch on/off tablet mode (AbsoluteMouseMode) in the options menu is fine.
But:
A. the browser should be able to scrolled also by wipe gestures.
=> implemented in Win 10

B. An adjustable fontsize for the browser items, independent from the screen zoom, would be fine, especially for fingertouch.

C. Right Click (long press finger or pen) don´t work at all.
- also not the pen button
=> normally implemented in Win 10

4. The sensetivity of sliders and dials should be adjustable in tablet mode.
for example: It is now not possible to set the Pitch device on -1 or 1 by finger or pen.
- The live dial in Max4live is adjustable in the inspector if you change "Steps" to a high value.
This causes, that the distance, the finger have to move on the screen to change the value is longer.
- A parameter like this in the options menu or a switch like the Shift Key in mouse mode would be fine.

I don´t talk about big changes in Live. The most stuff works already with touch and pen. The `Right Click` with Touch or Pen works in the most other Software in Win. Even Freeware like open office (no really touchfriendly GUI) or little portable programms like keypass supports the `Right Mouse Click` by fingertouch.
And the scrolling by wipe gestures is a normal feature of every Browser i know.The Fileexplorer in Windows do it. And Win 10 is not really a touchfriendly GUI. I mean thats all not rocket science.
And by the way it is the 21 centuary. People are used to touchscreens.
Also Live want to be a software also for stage. Mouse on the stage ??

[Angstrom]

Yes. But thie Live GUI is not optimal for fingers, especially on a stage.

But in the meantime things I have used:

With the computer safely away from me ...
TouchOsc and Lemur on iPads with big-assed on screen buttons sending info to Live which is being interpreted by a dedicated max patch. (Eg patch change, mixer resets, etc) the iPads show me info I need.

Option B
Just using a Win10 touchscreen (no iPads)...
A max GUI which uses the LOM to do stuff like reset the mixer, do certain send tricks, change presets, etc. The Max GUI presents a greatly simplified performance interface.

I use hardware controls for the other triggering and main mixing.

So yes, it would be good if they support multitouch but they'd need a GUI refresh. Everything is too tiny right now.