APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

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APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Buleriachk » Mon Sep 15, 2014 4:00 am

The APC Mini is great, except you can't switch banks, like the Launchpad, the APC40's or the APC Key 25. It only adjusts the matrix by track/scene, which is absolutely ridiculous.

I hope someone from Akai or Ableton will read this ASAP and fix it immediately - I really need this, since it affects all my 8x8 sets....

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by S4racen » Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:29 am

You'll need Ableton not AKAI as Ableton writes the scripts ;-)

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Buleriachk » Mon Sep 15, 2014 4:18 pm

Yeah, I know; I'm just screaming as loud as I can. Whoever programmed the script is has never performed with live using banks in sets. The Mini, after all, is a session mode device, and needs functionality similar to Push and Launchpad, not a computer keyboard (where the arrows can perform the current function - but in session mode, you select clips on the matrix, not by navigating within the set.

The Mini is great, otherwise. So near, and yet so far......
S4racen wrote:You'll need Ableton not AKAI as Ableton writes the scripts ;-)

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by floridagizzi » Mon Oct 20, 2014 2:31 am

Nor can you switch left and right between devices on a track. Been trying to map/hack the two unmarked scene launch buttons to send keystroke messages when the shift key is held. no luck so far. probably going to return for the Launch Control XL
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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Buleriachk » Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:04 am

The Bank issue for both the APC Mini and the APC Key 25 make them practically unusable for the reasons I purchased them. The documentation describes the way they SHOULD work on the Live website, but describes the way they actually working the current Live documentation.

Whoever was responsible for the current situation should be fired, and replaced with someone who has actually used Push at least once....

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Buleriachk » Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:26 pm

This is really, REALLY frustrating to me. I had all my Push sessions organized by banks, but I don't want to bring Push along to my gigs, since I play guitar live and use sessions for backup clips, organized by key, time signature, etc.

WTF? Who plays by moving the matrix incrementally up and down by scene/track? WTF are the banks FOR? Sheer idiocy....

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by beatz01 » Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:39 pm

Why not just sell the Mini and buy a used Launchpad+Korg Nanokontrol ?

Quadrupled functionality and less hassle.

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Buleriachk » Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:54 pm

The whole point of the APC Mini was to have it all in one unit. (I have a nanokontrol and a Launchpad, BTW). But this APC Mini solution is much better for me - if only it did banks like the Launchpad.

But if I had known about the banks, I wouldn't have purchased the Mini. As it is, I can't sell it for anything near what I paid for it (which wasn't that much, actually). There are many alternatives, of course. I just really want this one to work....

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Buleriachk » Thu Oct 30, 2014 5:12 pm

Bank movement and Session Overview still don't work for the APC Mini or the APC Key 25 in Version 9.1.6.

I can't believe that Akai and Ableton still think this is the way these devices are supposed to work. At the very least, they should give us a choice....

WTF!!!!???

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by h4nc0 » Sat Nov 01, 2014 12:04 pm

I couldn't agree more. I just got MPK249 expecting the fader section to work like APC40 but only first 8 tracks work. :? Huge disappointment.

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by doghouse » Sat Nov 01, 2014 1:47 pm

Buleriachk wrote:I hope someone from Akai or Ableton will read this ASAP
They'll read it faster if you email or better yet phone customer service and bitch about it there.

Hey, I'll call them for you if you don;t have a phone :mrgreen:

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Buleriachk » Sat Nov 01, 2014 5:09 pm

Are you kidding? Can you possibly imagine that I haven't done that?

They already have a ton of my emails, and reviews on Amazon, Music Radar.
And also emails to Akai as well.

Thanks for the helpful suggestion anyway... right...
Sheesh!

(And it would help even more if you would bitch to them as well... So call them!)

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Buleriachk » Mon Mar 02, 2015 4:07 pm

Bumpity

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Schmidi » Tue Mar 03, 2015 2:28 pm

Does holding shift and pressing an arrow move the "red box" (or whatever color mini is) 8 spaces up/down/left/right? That's how it worked on the original APC40.

I haven't used Push so I'm not sure exactly what type of movement/selection you're looking to do.

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Re: APC Mini - can't switch banks - FIX IT !!!!!

Post by Buleriachk » Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:46 pm

Schmidi wrote:Does holding shift and pressing an arrow move the "red box" (or whatever color mini is) 8 spaces up/down/left/right? That's how it worked on the original APC40.

I haven't used Push so I'm not sure exactly what type of movement/selection you're looking to do.
No. That's the point. It is called "Session Overview", and it was not implemented in either the APC Key 25 or the APC Mini. Hard to believe in a session oriented device, but check the documentation.

The idiot responsible for this lack of functionality should be fired.

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