How To Control Ableton With Your Hands | TouchDesigner Motion Tracking for Beginners

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November 29, 2025

Hey guys! I got a lot of questions about how I control Ableton with this special method which many folks think of as a poor woman’s Imogen Heap gloves.. So here’s a little (hopefully) straightforward, quick tutorial on how to control Ableton with motion tracking aka with your hands with touchdesigner. A little imprecise for the sake of time but hopefully it makes things easier for those of you out there new to this land.

Everything you need resource wise—

Ableton Live: https://www.ableton.com/en/
TD Ableton: https://derivative.ca/UserGuide/TDAbleton
MediaPipe: https://github.com/torinmb/mediapipe-touchdesigner
Torin Blakensmith (Comprehensive Touchdesigner Tutorials, Media Pipe explanation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx4Ellaj6kk&t=48s

CHAPTERS:

0:00 – What I’m demonstrating: Ableton Live and motion tracking
0:59 – What you need to do this
2:19 – Setting up your Touchdesigner project
6:45 – Setting up Ableton Live
8:11 – Setting your reference chop to Ableton parameter controls
9:05 – Quick demo

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