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I suspect we fat "yanks" (and I'm 5'10"/230, & all around the middle!) don't fit the young skinnier euro-hipster image that Ableton caters too, so why should their t-shirts fit us either?

Their marketing staff seems to prefer to forget the fact that a large (no pun intended) segment of their users ...

Ok, I did the demo download, and this Steim software looks REALLY promising! I only BARELY managed to get ONE 20-minute demo session in before work this morning, but I actuaaly did a pitch bend with one of the Logitech Cordless Rumblepad's joysticks (routed to QT instruments as a test) and got Live ...

Well, I finally bought the Logitech CORDLESS USB gamepad today to replace/supplement the IShock 2, and I haven't been able to get it to respond to anything under OS-X on the iBook. Logitech doesn't seem to have a Mac utility (like MacAlly's iShockXManager for the iShock2). OS-X's System Profile ...

My sharp eyes see what appears to be an Alesis AirSynth next to your rack -- what do you think of this unit -- pros? cons?

cheers,
gene[/quote]

Hey Gene-(Sorry for the long time gap b4 replying!)

It's an Alesis AirFX (blue case)- multiple XYZ axis effects with stereo I/O, as opposed to the ...

Here's the link to that cordless USB game pad:

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=products/details&CRID=11&CONTENTID=5021&countryid=19&languageid=1

BTW, it's for Mac *and* PC, so nobody's being excluded!

Hey, if anyone here comes up wit any cool ideas to increase the usabilty of these pads ...

Recently bought an iShock game pad and mapped it to Live.

WOW! I've found this extremely fun and liberating in a "live" Live situation! Now I trigger samples without having to hunch over the iBook... now I can "perform" and interact with the other band members and the audience realizes that I'm ...