humnumb wrote:Push is limited to 16 pads (4x4) at once for Drum Racks. Nesting a drum rack inside of an instrument rack is a rather cumbersome workaround, if that even works, that most people aren't going to find acceptable just to be able to trigger 64 drum rack pads at once.
its limited to 4x4 if you want a step sequencer. If you want 64 samples, you can use sampler very easily to do just that (its just as flexible as drum racks for many purposes), and if you truly need to use a drum rack, its as simple as a right click 'group to instrument rack' and you're finished. Its hardly cumbersome.
humnumb wrote:You can't browse or load 3rd party plugins on Push. There's no automapping either. You can configure plugins beforehand but that's useless since nothing gets saved and you'd have to do it over every single time you load the same plugin. You will still need to save it as a rack beforehand for any of that and to still have recall.
So you have some prep work to do. Once. And then its done.
humnumb wrote:Requiring Max4Live or doing things like "control_surface calls to the LOM" is the furthest thing from being able to "easily remap components of the device" and only points out the deficiencies of Push as a MIDI controller outside of controlling Live and the fact that it doesn't even have an editor and that the notes cannot be changed. In contrast, Maschine comes with an excellent Controller Editor where you can easily remap everything and make as many MIDI controller templates as you'd like.
Well, i guess if you're not interested in a powerful remapping and programming environment, then you may not be very interested in the M4L implementation. But despite your misgivings it is very easy to accomplish a great deal in max and the LOM without too much stress. And Live itself can easily transpose midi notes using racks, and using the IAC bus allows very easy and flexible midi mapping abilities. What are you thinking of doing that you would find difficult with the currently available options? It seems to me you want 'flexibility' but dont want to learn how to achieve it ;p
remember that at its core, push is a class compliant midi device. You can do any mapping tricks with it that you could with any other device, and then in addition you can build deeper integration if you wish. The best of both worlds.
humnumb wrote:Usermode has no lights???
the point of user mode is to let you control your own lights. Just pipe midi notes into it, velocity controls the rgb value. You can do this similar to an edison setup, or write a more complex patch to control the lighting and pad behaviour. Thats what its for!
