# @stormypyeatte on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcqtJgbKHfn
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69908491-stormypyeatte-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-30T14:17:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Stormy Pyeatte⛈ (@stormypyeatte) — https://gondola.cc/stormypyeatte

## Caption

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 I basically made a list of notes and got Python to fire a note through the SendMIDI TDAbleton component every time its value changed from 0 to 1.

Learning TouchDesigner and learning the basics of programming and code has been so fun and challenging. It was reeeealllly really REALLY satisfying to come face-to-face with a problem I’ve never encountered before and find a way around it using CODE. I’m gaining some problem-solving skills I’ve never had before, and I just can’t get over how far I’ve come in learning TouchDesigner and literally can’t get enough of it. 

Shoutout to Elburz @interactiveimmersivehq for teaching me the basics of TDAbleton!
And as always a big shoutout to @blankensmithing and @domscott.art for creating the Media Pipe plugin which entertains me day after day.


#TouchDesigner #mediapipe #handtracking #TDAbleton #ableton

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## Tags

handtracking, touchdesigner, ableton, tdableton, mediapipe

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