Nocturn in Live

baseinstinct · Post by **baseinstinct** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:58 am

[my first poll hope it workx]

What does it prove to be useful for in practice In Live?

Pls specify Live's functions.

ThrowAway · Post by **ThrowAway** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:02 am

you didnt leave a button for "nothing". but that my uneducated and inexperienced vote.

baseinstinct · Post by **baseinstinct** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:04 pm

Yeah, one of the two. Poll wrongly tailored or nobody cares. Or nobody uses it.

No, that's three.

ThrowAway · Post by **ThrowAway** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:24 pm

for me its useless. what does it have six buttons? I bought this http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MPK49 it doesnt have a tradiontional cross fader but if I ever need one(not likely) ill use the sliders as a vertical crossfader.

djfm · Post by **djfm** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:21 pm

yeah nothing. i havent used mine yet to good effect

baseinstinct · Post by **baseinstinct** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:33 pm

Thanks guys for this feedback. I have gone through the enthusiastic posts preceding the appearance of the controller on the market, "get the hands on", "join the pre-sale front", among them quite a few boosters by new members, and got carried away, too.

But according to N's manual Ableton Live does not support Automap Universal Mixer Control.
This itself is an eye opener to me (after all Nocturn was officially demonstrated on Live). If the problem is on the part of Live there is a risk ALv8 might be the first one to support it some day.

Or has it changed yet?

I found at kvr:
"Automap template gives you instant control of track faders, track mute, auxilary sends, track arm and pan, as well as transport, just on the right of the control panel. At the same time the left hand control panel auto-assigns the controls of whichever synth/fx you select with the mouse(and can be locked), as well as offering controls for scene select/launch and all clips stop. You also get 8 drum pads and an X/Y pad."

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:14 am

I use it for VST automation AND tweaking so how do I use the poll?

I made instant mappings for the Nocturn (do a search for my user name) although Ableton instant mappings are a bit shitty, you get to tweak some parameters but not all what good is that?

If you want to use a controller for mixing, you should really get something like a BCF nothing like setting levels with faders, you can do it with a mouse or knobs, but it's not very good.

Geezus · Post by **Geezus** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:38 am

I actually like it for everything. I typically use at remote SL at home but when I'm on the go I use the nocturn for pretty much everything. Once you set up the MIDI CC the way you want for Live's controls and set up your plugins with the automap controls you like (dont forget to save as default) its a pretty fucking sweet little controller.

Nocturn in Live

What does it prove to be useful for in practice?

Nocturn in Live