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 ...