Knobbler4

Buttons, not just faders.

Named Knobbler pages.

Master cue volume.

New opt-in Auto-Open Plug-in Windows mode, from the app or the checkbox on the device's Bluhand page: as you move between devices, the plug-in editor window for the one you left closes and the new one's opens.

Scrolling the Mixer and Clips pages on a large set now shows real values the moment a strip or clip slot comes into view.

The device page now follows Live's blue hand, so selecting a chain inside a rack switches the controls to that chain's device instead of staying on the rack.

This release improves feedback while recording Session clips:

This release adds a live progress indicator to the Session clip grid.

This release contains a massive amount of under-the-hood work on keeping the device footprint as small as possible in your Live Set.

Requires the latest app version to expose the new Back to Arrangement button.

With app version 2026.5.25 or newer: Multiplayer Knobbler!

Arrangement transport control via the new `pos` capability: stream the song-position playhead (throttled ~20Hz) with song length and time signature, and scrub it from the app (`/scrub`).

With app version 2026.5.22 or newer, swap or move a slot's mapping to another slot via the new `swap` capability.

Massive rearchitecture yielding big leaps in speed and efficiency.

UPDATE / NOTE: THIS RELEASE ONLY WORKS WITH Live 12.4 / Max 9.1 -- v61 restores compatability with 12.3 / 0.0

This release enables Push 3 Standalone users to run multiple Knobblers instances and devices.

Honor Live's "Select on Launch" preference when firing clips and scenes from the Knobbler clip view -- previously these always selected the launched clip/scene regardless of the preference.

This is a purely under-the-hood release with changes in Knobbler's core message sending and receiving architecture.

This release focuses on readiness for Live 12.4.

Per-instance settings for multi-device support (X-Y pairs and meters state are now independent per device); Session page tab; Experimental performance improvement for mixer and clip view scrolling.

Provides support for verion 2026.3.31 of the app, which includes a new Session view.

Another big release for Knobbler this year -- Clips view!

This is a huge release!

This is a significant release in that it contains support for X-Y controls in the forthcoming 2026.2.14 release of the app.

Adds support for Undo/Redo buttons when used with version 2026.2.3 of the app or newer.

This update supports a forthcoming app update that adds a play button next to each cue point.

This release is a small change to add Bars.Beats.16ths display to cue points display.

This release adds the `/cuePoints [...]` OSC message to populate a list of cue points in the next app release.

This release adds the `/quantItemsN {list}` OSC message for a parameter.

This release adds support for a forthcoming app release that supports toggle buttons in the UI instead of sliders for parameters with two possible states.

Thanks Peter Bäckgren for the bug report!

This release is a small bugfix.

Thanks u/Ahfekz on Reddit for alerting me to a bug where in most VST instrument plugins, changing presets would often bring the system to its knees if Knobbler was in the set.

This relase makes automating page changes optional.

This release improves the Bluhand and Current Param Slider experience by using the chain color if applicable.

This release adds support for receiving a new /toggleGroup {ID} OSC message.

This release improves the app discovery and selection process to be more intuitive and reliable.

This release supports a forthcoming app feature where a `/ping` message will be sent every 5 seconds.

This release switches the Knobbler device to be an Audio Effect device.

This release adds a "Device Port" field, which unlocks the ability to run mutiple Knobbler devices, which unlocks the ability to use multiple tablets!

This release removes support from the Clips functionality introduced in v33.

This release adds support for rack macro variations., randomize macro values, and will now alert if a new device version is available.

This release includes an important fix for some of Ableton's "forgotten" devices that do not have a standard JS API implementation, such as CC Control.

This release connects the tabs in the device to the tabs on the tablet screen.

This release eliminates the need to configure a control surface.

Fix a bug where when looking at tracks inside of a group, the tracks would be shown at the end of the track list rather than where they should be in the hierarchy.

This release fixes a bug in the track/device navigation where a track with no devices would cause some chaos.

Thanks 1000x Andrew Norris for keeping me honest.

Fixes a bug that mostly shows up in configuring VST parameters, but was related to any time the set of parameters changes.

Watch `has_audio_output` more closely to enable/disable mixer controls appropriately.

* Detect control surfaces and show a warning if not present (required for Bluhand) * Overhaul refresh system to be snappier and not get lost * Fix bug in exclusive arm code that would try to arm un-armable tracks and generate a warning in the Max console * Add `control_surfaces.txt` file listing control surfaces that will enable Bluhand functionality * Added `Debug` switch to toggle OSC logging to the Max Window * Publishes device version in OSC (`/deviceVersion Knobbler-v23`) so that the iPad app can validate it is new enough

Add support to honor the user's exclusive arm/solo setting for the forthcoming iPad app.

This relase handles collapsed tracks and brings some additional stability and performance to Knobbler.

* Provides support for device on/off to the native app * Performance improvments (caching parent colors and parameter name => parm id list index)

This is another release in support of the forthcoming native iPad app.

This small release adds Session Record (circle icon) functionality and adds the Main channel to the channel list.

More native iPad app functionality: * Browse all tracks and devices in your set in the Bluhand page * Tempo controls (metronome, tap tempo, tempo input box) * Rack macro parameters limited to visible number in Bluhand -- no more useless sliders

Removed the title from the native iPad app and added a bunch of buttons.

Fixes a critical bug with the v13 release.

* New more compact tabbed UI * Bluhand device presets now in the UI * Fix bug with shortcut buttons that could make re-opening a set assign the buttons incorrectly * Curated parameter banks for some stock Live devices (not done) * Use `live.banks` for Max for Live devices on Bluhand * Fix small bug in Bluhand that was emitting errors into the console

Thanks to Matthew Flook for reporting a bug in Bluhand that prevented initial values from being displayed.

Fixes a bug (#13) in the Current Param Knob functionality that caused a garbage string value to be displayed, and in some cases led to a crash.

This release includes some internal simplifications, important bugfixes, and a versioned/bundled .tosc file.

A wiley one, again partially due to moving to a single instance of the JS.

Previously, all parameters in a track would be displayed in Knobbler4 with the same color and track name.

Thanks @rds2024-3004 for the bug report.

This release adds a telemetry "ping" on load.

Adds a row of buttons across the top of the Bluhand tab that you can assign to jump to specific devices.

Fine tuning of TouchOSC layout.

This release re-adds the Bluhand functionality from the prior major version of Knobbler.

Introducing Knobbler4!