This is my setup - automap is friggen great in my opinion because you CAN use it to 'automap' to plugins / devices as it is intended AND (a lot of ppl don't realise this) you can setup up to 16 different completely configurable user-mappings for yourself (called automap universal or something like that)
This is how I map most of my stuff to live - I can assign any CC#, note or "keyboard combo" to any button, fader, encoder etc. It's REALLY VERY customisable. I would have said hands-down that this combo is superior to the APC, but I did not realise that the APC faders/knobs actually follow the focus (red box) in live - That would be a GREAT feature to see on the SL mkII - but I just manually map the faders at the beginning and I can have pages and pages and pages of faders if I want to, on 16 different midi channels (I tend to use one midi channel for my studio work, one for live performance, one for DJ performance - so I still have 13 unused!) and using automap you can set the encoder "steps" also - so if I have an encoder controlling the LFO on something and I only want values of 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 I can make that encoder only have 3 steps, it's hard to explain how this works - but it means it jumps PAST 1/4t and 1/8d and will only ever 'land on' the values which I want - which I'm not sure the APC is able to do!
But having jammed with my cousin (bringing a second launchpad into the mix) I found that the launchpad really benefits from having a mate - it's ultimate - you can launch / record clips with one launchpad, control all aspects of the mix on the SL mkII and play notes / use MLR or step sequencers or whatever on the second launchpad, really was a lot better than I thought it could be!
Novation seem to be on the ball - although please do not waste your money on their automap for iphone - THAT is just a joke!!
