Ableton Forum

Steinberg says that they will continue to support the Mac... Though my guess is: Only for the time being....

Actually, my company sells Pinnacle products. Our turnkey systems are almost exclusively on Apple computers. (Aside from Avid Symphony which has nothing to do with Pinnacle...) Pinnnacle ...

If it's your first time I would consider a simple CV to MIDI solution. Here are a couple of examples:

http://www.doepfer.de/pe.htm
http://www.infusionsystems.com/index.shtml

Or an existing controller with footswitch inputs:

http://www.peavey.com/products/amps_mi/midi/pc1600x.cfm

You could ...