This might be the most satisfying thing I’ve ever made…

My partner makes music in ableton and we have talked for ages about making something together. One weekend we went absolutely FERAL over this project that we had no business attempting. Derivative built a collection of components called TDAbleton that let Ableton 👉+ 👌 TouchDesigner hook up. I created some simple visuals controlled with MediaPipe, so my hands control the visuals and the visuals control the notes. 
I still feel very new to touchdesigner  so this was intimidating. He built MIDI instruments, and from what I can tell, TDAbleton’s MIDI only travels one way, from Ableton (controller) into TouchDesigner. 

What I needed was: Handtracking to trigger notes 👉 Visuals react with notes 
Which required TD 👉 to Ableton 👉 back to TD. Using Python in a CHOP Execute DAT got me around it. AI wrote most of the code, but I got to flex some new knowledge gained from my beginning Python course I’m taking through codecademy So ...