TouchDesigner has been available for macOS for a number of years but it never really gets talked about or reviewed. Elburz recently got to try out TouchDesigner for a full week on an M2 MacBook Air and offers his insight into what works, what doesn't, who it's good for, and who should consider moving over to Windows in the long term.
Working with GitHub and TouchDesigner can be a real adventure – and what I hear most often is why and how. A bit ago I did a little write-up about working with git and Touch, but realize that’s still a bit intimidating for folks.
Something I hear often is the difficulty in doing TouchDesigner blob tracking. “It’s too slow!” or “the tracking isn’t working!” or “I don’t know how to use it!”.
We’ve all been in installations where you need to send textures between apps or process. It may be because of limitations of a process, maybe because we’re using different apps to do different processes.
