Why Should I Optimise? Audio settings on Windows are often not ideal for live music production. Optimising your settings can lead to a reduction in clicks, pops, dropouts and – most importantly – latency time. Choosing A Driver The best driver for music on Windows is ASIO. Most external soundcards come with an asio driver. If you don't have asio driver installed there is a free third party driver available named ASIO4ALL. It is available from http://www.asio4all.com/ To use the asio driver go to preferences/audio/ and set “driver type” to ASIO. ​Next beside “Audio Device” select your external soundcard if you are using one, otherwise select “ASIO4ALL” if you are using the ASIO4ALL driver.   Setting the Buffer Size The audio buffer size, measured in samples, refers to the ‘slice’ of audio that is processed by the soundcard at any one point. A small buffer size will have low latency time, but is more prone to clicks and dropouts. A larger buffer size on the other hand, will be more stable but will have a large latency. A recommended approach is to find a happy medium by beginning at 128 samples, and doubling the value until you find a suitably stable output while maintaining a low latency.  Keeping the value in multiples of 2 ensures that your computer processes the audio efficiently and therefore we highly encourage you to maintain buffer sizes of one of the following: 128, 256, 512 or 1024 samples. It’s possible to set the Buffer size in Live’s preferences / Audio Tab, however depending on your soundcard, it might be necessary to click on ‘Hardware Settings’ to make the adjustment in the audio interface preferences. 

The first thing to say about Apple Macintosh and touch is that Macs do not come with touch drivers out of the box like Windows PCs do. Almost any touch screen you buy (despite the claims of some manufacturers) needs a third-party driver to run it and a some experimentation to get it working properly. The second thing to say is that this isn’t difficult to do and, when set up, it works extremely well. The following is a quick guide describing how we went about getting multi-touch working on our Macs here at Yeco. If anyone knows a better or different way of doing things then please get in contact. To get our touchscreen  (Asus PT201Q in this case) working with a Macbook Pro (OSX El Capitan), we used a driver made by a company called . In their own words: ‘Touch-Base is a leading developer and supplier of touchscreen and pointer device drivers. Established in 1989, we supply branded drivers to hardware manufacturers and distributors worldwide as well as direct sales to end users’.  The way it works is that you tell them what touchscreen you have and what system you’re using and they send you a test driver. If that works you pay them £95 (which is $171 or €133 at the time of writing 2/4/16). There are discounts for larger volumes. I should point out that I have had some of the best customer service I’ve ever experienced with this company and they are indeed experts. When you go to their downloads page, they will take you through the process of choosing your touchscreen make and model and then downloading their test driver for free to make sure it works If you're happy with it you can go to purchase. Follow Touch-Base’s instructions to download and install the driver software. Then Calibrate and test as per the instructions. Depending on your model you may have to alter different settings to get it to work the way you want it to. Before Yeco will work you need to download Touch-Base's TUIO Server App and install it. 1. In the TUIO Settings, change the settings to the ones displayed in the image below. It is important to turn off mouse emulation or else create an exception for Yeco.  2. In the UPDD Console make sure you have the correct touchscreen and input device selected and set the click mode to 'interactive touch'. 3. Launch Ableton Live.  4. Launch Yeco and drag it over to the touch screen’s interface  5. MAXIMIZE YECO! Using the little green button or whatever shortcut you use. This is very important. The TUIO and Yeco calculate the position and velocity of your touches in absolute values based on the entire screen, not relative values based on the size of the windowed application. Minimize Yeco and you’ll see what I mean.  6. You should be ready to go :)​

Yeco is a multi-touch controller for Ableton Live that runs on Windows & Mac. The company was founded by Graham Comerford and Martin Reilly (that’s me). Both Graham and myself are co-directors of Yeco, headquartered in our company's office in Kilkenny, Ireland. Graham had been working on the project for some time and in January of 2015 I started working with him on the interface design. Shortly after this we formed a company.  It’s now February 2016. You’re reading this because after over a year, we have something you will really enjoy making music with. The blog is supposed to be for you, so we want to share things you’ll find interesting. This will include things like product updates, demonstrations and showcases of Yeco in use. We’ll be posting about other music tech and related stuff too. The blog will also, from time to time, include news about Yeco as a company and what we’re up to. We’re going to keep this to a minimum and only post things we think are important. We want to hear from you. We hope you’ll get in touch on Facebook, Twitter, or via our contact page.​