Help: How Many APC 40's / 20's can be used at once???

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blue frog beats
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Help: How Many APC 40's / 20's can be used at once???

Post by blue frog beats » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:41 am

Hi guys... pretty basic question here...

how many of these controllers can be used at once? I would really love to buy 4 or 6 and make a big custom console (like an APC 200, or 240!), but I'm curious as to how this would work inside ableton. Is there anyone with experience using more than one? It would be spectacular if another "red box" would open for each one, so i could easily navigate on screen... is there a limit to how many can be used? thanks

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Re: Help: How Many APC 40's / 20's can be used at once???

Post by tecgen » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:58 am

have a look here:
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=135256
I'm curious as to how this would work inside ableton. Is there anyone with experience using more than one? It would be spectacular if another "red box" would open for each one, so i could easily navigate on screen...


I'm using an APC20 and an APC40. The APC20 has a orange box and next to it the APC40 has a red box. You can move both boxes together with the navigation buttons of the APC40.
is there a limit to how many can be used?
Its somewhere on the written in the Ableton FAQ if I remember right.

/Marco

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Re: Help: How Many APC 40's / 20's can be used at once???

Post by anamexis » Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:56 pm

Up to 6 APCs for 48 total tracks can be selected at once. I assume this is related to the fact that there's only 6 control surface slots in the MIDI preferences.

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