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Dub Console

A dub-inspired performance surface for Ableton Live, driven live over OSC. The tactile dub board Live never shipped with; echo throws, spring reverb, and feedback you can ride by hand.

In development Electron OSC / UDP AbletonOSC

What it is

Dub was born on the mixing desk, with engineers playing the mixing board like an instrument, throwing sounds into echo, drowning them in spring reverb, killing the feedback before it swallows the room. Dub Console brings that instrument to Ableton Live: a standalone performance surface that talks to Live over the network and lets you play the mix in real time, with your hands, the way a dub engineer would.

What it does

Live strips

Volume, pan, mute, and solo per track, plus dedicated echo and spring sends — the signature dub throws, one gesture each.

Throws

Momentary throws to echo, spring, or both: press to send a phrase spinning into the tail, release to pull it back.

Feedback kill

A one-touch tamer for runaway feedback — the move that keeps a dub set on the edge without going over.

Device macros

A tray of racks and devices with their macros exposed, so signature effects map to the surface and re-resolve when the set changes.

Learn & bind

Assign any device parameter to a slot by learning it live; fixed signature slots plus generic ones you shape yourself.

Transport & tempo

Tap tempo, play/stop, and a beat readout — the console stays locked to Live's clock.

How it works

Dub Console is an Electron desktop app. The renderer never speaks OSC directly. This means that the renderer exchanges clean JSON messages with the main process, which translates them to and from AbletonOSC over UDP. That separation means the same interface runs against real Live or against a built-in mock, so the surface can be developed and demoed without a running session. Track colours come across the wire already aged into usable tints, and the whole thing is designed to feel like hardware, not a settings panel.

Why

Ableton is a studio, not a dub desk. Dub Console adds the missing performance layer: an opinionated, gesture-first controller for the one style that treats the mixer as the instrument.