I’m getting connected status and working transport control (play/pause/tempo change) between TouchDesigner and Ableton via TDAbleton, but song/info/bars, song/info/beats and song/info/sixteenths on the abletonSong component stay stuck at 0 during playback, no matter what I try.
What I’ve already checked/tried:
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Include Time Data is switched on on the abletonSong component
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abletonSong’s own Connect toggle is on (separate from the master)
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TDA Master device is present on the Master track in Ableton and shows connected
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Textport shows a clean connection message:
Connected to Ableton Live. Song: "TDA_Master"with no errors -
Control Surface in Ableton’s Link/MIDI preferences is set to TouchDesigner (none and none)
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Ports match between the TDA Master device and the tdAbleton component in TouchDesigner
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Did a full reinstall: corrected the MIDI Remote Script Folder path (it had been pointing at
~/Music/Ableton/User Library/Remote Scriptsinstead of inside the Live app package), reran Install from the tdAbletonPackage Utilities page -
Tested with a completely fresh, brand new Ableton Live Set + brand new TouchDesigner project (fresh tdAbletonPackage, fresh abletonSong) — same result, still stuck at 0
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The official TDAbleton demo project (Ableton demo set + TD demo file) DID work correctly and showed live beat/bar data the first time I tried it, but stopped working on a later reopen after I’d been testing my own project alongside it
Also noticed:
- When I try to add a TDA Rack (Audio Analyzer), the TDA MIDI device shows as “missing” with no MIDI device actually present, but if i drag in the TDA MIDI device by itself from the left hand side folder created by Touchdesigner, it works and is located correctly.
Any help appreciated!!