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The Best StreamDeck Alternative.. Maybe Even Better

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The StreamDeck helps you up your creative edge by allowing you to make live adjustments to your stream. The StreamDeck, depending on the one you get, has 15 buttons to press for effects, gifs, or even sound files, to be played during your stream. The StreamDeck, without a doubt, gives you a competitive edge as a content creator.

The Cheaper Better Option

TOUCH PORTAL

lemme say it louder for the people in the back..

TOUUUUCHHH POOORRRRTALLLL!!!!

Touch Portal is by far the most powerful remote desktop tool up to date. It’s in direct competition with the Elgato StreamDeck, however, they do things a bit differently. Touch Portal, unlike the StreamDeck, has a free option. They are able to offer their service for free because Touch Portal is an application that can be downloaded on Android and IOS devices. Not only can you get Touch Portal for FREE, but the Full-Version only costs $13. Yup.. you read that right, the full-version is a grand total of $13.

What are some of Touch Portal’s Features?

I know.. I know.. for a measly $13 you are probably thinking “it can’t be that powerful of an application.” Let me do my best at re-assuring you. The $13 spent on the full-version of the app will do nothing, but save you time and make you the coolest person in the room.

Touch Portal gives you great control as a streamer, but it’s not limited to only live streaming control. Touch Portal allows the creation of plugins.. so, as developers and code wiz’s get their grimy hands on the application and start using their big brain juices… well,  the possibilities are endless. At the time of this article there are currently many features already built into Touch Portal making it, in my opinion, superior to the Elgato StreamDeck.

List of Features:
– KeyBoard Shortcuts (for the short kings out there)
– OBS Integration
– Twitch (channel points, subs, etc)
– Twitter
– Phillips HUE (Change your light’s color)
– Windows Functions
– Mac Functions
– Soundpad (Can be used as the sound gif board you always wanted)
– HTTP Communication (for the real nerds)
– Logic (One of the more powerful items in Touch Portal’s arsenal)
– Unlimited Pages
– 110 Buttons Per Page!

Current Plugins I am aware of:
– Spotify
– Voicemeeter
– Windows Essentials
– Discord
– HardwareMonitor (Literal Monitoring of PC Hardware)
– Soundpad
– Weather

Now Touch Portal is still a baby (3 Years Old) and yet its jam packed with killer features already. As more developers get their hands on Touch Portal there will be loads of integrations and plugins developed for this app! The list above is just the current capabilities of the app.

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OBS Integration

With Touch Portal you are able to do many of the basic functions needed for streaming.
– Start/Stop Stream
– Turn up and Down Volume of sources
– Change the Scene
– Change the Transition
– Turn on/off sources
– Turn on/off filters
– Do all the above consecutively

I put the last one in there as a joke. But, the truth is you can create quite the lengthy logic statement within Touch Portal. If you really wanted you could start your stream, change your name on Twitter, post a tweet that you are live, change your Phillips Hue light to purple, turn on your starting stream song with a timer, and automatically switch to the live scene when its over. I mean you can literally have Touch Portal do all the hard work that you do on a normal day-to-day basis. Where before you would need to write your own css script to get amazing animations, crazy channel point redemptions, or simple automatic switching of scenes, Touch Portal already has all of that integrated.

OBS is only one of the integrations with Touch Portal. There has been a plugin developed for Voicemeeter aswell! I know many of you are using Voicemeeter because it seems to be the most commonly asked about within my Discord Server. I actually made what I call “TheFranswah Studio Mixer” combining Voicemeeter and Touch Portal, so you have a virtual mixer from your tablet or phone.

Now I don’t want to dive into crazy detail on how to do this, because it would take quite some time. But, I have made a video on the setup of said mixer!

The ALL-IN-ONE Stream Deck and GoXLR !!!! (Touch Portal & Voicemeeter)

In conclusion, Touch Portal is an amazing application that charges nothing to start using. You can get a taste of what the Touch Portal magic is like and you won’t ever want to turn back! Give Touch Portal a shot and see what if can do for you.

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