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Touchable - false positive problem for Windows users ATM |
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I just purchased Touchable for iPad. It's a nice looking dedicated controller for Ableton Live. You have to download a server they provide for free. Two problems:
1) It's a rar file. That is not supported natively on Windows. I had to download winrar to unpack it. That in itself is not a show stopper, but it makes one wonder how well the quality control is.
2) My newly updated AVG virus software found a virus - a trojan horse.
I sent the support group a message. I'll let you know what they respond. Until then, I don't recommend Windows users buying this.
I hope and trust this gets cleared up soon.
http://www.touch-able.com/Site/touchable.html
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:43 pm Post subject:
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| mosc wrote: | I just purchased Touchable for iPad. It's a nice looking dedicated controller for Ableton Live. You have to download a server they provide for free. Two problems:
1) It's a rar file. That is not supported natively on Windows. I had to download winrar to unpack it. That in itself is not a show stopper, but it makes one wonder how well the quality control is.
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This is more of a convenience issue than quality.
How big is the rar file?
Rar has better compression than zip and is used quite a bit more outside the US than inside.
(Roland Kuit's Synthesis tutorial is in rar format)
I wouldn't expect the developers to target US audiences only. Besides, Windows isn't the only platform used for downloading apps for the ipad.
Given that there are many free versions of compression/decompression utilities, not to mention commercial version that are very good and very cheap, there's no reason not to have these on every computer.
Winzip also supports the rar format- at least enough features to uncompress rar files.
Now the virus- or trojan, if it's real that is a quality problem.
But virus scanners have found false alarms before.
I hope it's not real, for everyone's sake.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:46 am Post subject:
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Have a lok at 7zip, open source and free, it will deal with a lot of zip / archive formats.
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Yep, 7zip has been one of the first things I install on every new Windows machine I get, for quite a few years now.
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Yea, .rar files not a problem with Windows. I think what has happened is since XP started being able to decompress zip files , rar's were put in the shadows. I use rar quite often for archiving.
AVG probably did a false positive. I've run into several issues with AVG doing this with legitimate software - seems almost always to be utility applications (in my experience). Still use AVG though the current small business version really takes it toll on the system...starting to act like Norton/Symantec A/V.
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this is false positive virus alert of the AVG anti virus!
not the first time that i encounter that with a software, happened even once with a pretty famous one!
I ve installed touchAble server on my 2 laptop, pc and mac, pc gave me this virus alert...rubbish. Can't work anymore with windows system for music, everything is issues...don't like Apple politic a lot but i admit it works far way better for audio.
And touchAble is such a wonderful controller!!! just sold my apc40 last week! Gonna buy a second iPAd  |
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Scrap AVG and get NOD32 http://www.eset.com/
Its a bit of cash but it is excellent.
I ended up getting a 10 user license so I could install it on friends/relatives computers after spending hours sorting out virus infested machines running AVG! |
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Well, I got TouchAble loaded, but it only works with Live 8; 7 is not supported - won't work. I use 7. SOL I guess.
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| BobTheDog wrote: | Scrap AVG and get NOD32 http://www.eset.com/
Its a bit of cash but it is excellent.
I ended up getting a 10 user license so I could install it on friends/relatives computers after spending hours sorting out virus infested machines running AVG! |
I bought a 3 user license for 2 years, and it was less than $80.
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