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Yes you would have to assemble it yourself but it's very easy to find instructions online and/or take it to any local computer shop and pay a small fee to have them assemble it for you if you felt safer doing it that way.

As far as graphics are concerned it depends if you plan to use software like ...

My machine -
CPU: Intel i5 750 2.79Ghz
Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-US3L
Ram: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 6950 3gb
Sound: E-MU 1820
OS: Vista 64bit

Minus the graphics card it cost me less than £500 and I have never had any CPU load or latency issues with Live 8.

If money isn't an issue ...

Insert and disable multiple instances of the Pitch effect into your midi track and give them each the appropriate semitone shift.
Disable your Computer MIDI Keyboard in the top right corner (Ctrl+Shift+K)
Enter Key Map Mode (Ctrl+K) and bind the effect on/off button of each instance to a different ...

If you use Enigma (I think that's still the M-Audio config software) then you can bind the pads to play a different octave in each user preset, then use the bank/recall function to load between the different banks without involving the mouse, I have the Evolution predecessor to the axiom 25 (evo mk ...

Just transpose your keyboard up/down an octave.

If it's anything like its sibling the nanokey then it wont show up in the Control Surface list but you should still be able to select it in the Input and Output boxes assuming you have the correct drivers for it.

I'm not sure if there is a normal way to edit the default track state but you can get 3rd party scripts (such as the one mentioned on this site ) that would let you preconfigure a newly inserted track to have the -10db you wanted but I'm not sure if it would let you add external plugins like ...

The preview tab should be there automatically on File browsers 1, 2 and 3, there is no toggle on/off for it. Try selecting the file you want to preview inside your browser and pressing shift+enter or your right arrow key, in theory it will preview the sample whether or not you can see the preview tab.

You could try

File > Install Live Pack...

Browse to the default packages location inside your main installation folder
e.g C:\Program Files (x86)\Ableton\Live 8.2.2\Resources\DefaultPackages

Then select Operator_v8.5.alp (might not be the same version but it should have an operator alp file in ...

"HyperControl and DirectLink are 2 very different systems. Both feature automatic mapping of sliders, knobs and transport buttons to DAW parameters, but HyperControl communicates bi-directionally with DAWs and offers extensive parameter mapping and plug-in control. DirectLink does not have bi ...

Software such as Bome's Midi Translator (PC) or MidiPipe (Mac OSX) would allow you to trigger a key combination with a basic midi cc or any note. The only real difficulty with that solution would be setting up the midi translator and finding the correct shortcut key combination to bind it to.

Open a new live set, set your Audio/Midi channels to -10db then go to Options > Preferences and in the File Folder tab click "Save current set as default". Every time you open a new live set it will load the channels at -10db and you can just duplicate the channel to make more.

Alternatively you ...

I'm no expert on the padkontrol but hopefully I can help..

If you want to assign different functions to the X-Y Pad you can either use the Korg Librarian software to map the device to send out different cc/pitchbend/aftertouch signals on each axis or if you want to map in Live then make sure when ...