Has Ableton forgotten about live performance with Push 2?

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TequilaKez
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Has Ableton forgotten about live performance with Push 2?

Post by TequilaKez » Mon Jan 08, 2018 1:56 am

While I appreciate the Push 2 functions aimed at studio users, a lot of it is a bit gimmicky and you could have just used the mouse / trackpad.
It's on stage where you don't want to use the mouse. And really want to hide the laptop so it's virtually standalone device, but there's a few things missing.

So here's my list of stuff that IMO we need in order to make Push 2 (and Ableton 10) frustration-free when preforming Live.

1. User Pref (or shift function) to switch back to Push 1 mode for Mute/Solo mode. Holding down buttons is not something you want to do when performing live.
2. Short fade on track mute, the same as the default fade on audio clips in Arrange to prevent clicks/pops when muting a track live.
3. A Semi-User mode. Shift+User would switch the OLED to a Page of 8 assignable knobs and 16 Buttons that are mapped in the traditional way, but display what they are mapped to so we don't forget. The 8x8 Pads stay in whatever mode they were on before switching to Semi-User mode on so we can continue jamming Drum / Instrument Racks or triggering clips or whatever you do Live.
4. In the Setup page, a 'Performance' mode for the encoders, or even a 'x2' mode. I know they're Relative 2's Compliment, cool for precision adjustment, but too slow for live performance tweaking. Should be way to replicate the range of a standard encoder when precision isn't important.
5. Load sets from the Browser. The 'Megaset' works for most people, but in some cases there's just too much going on for a long performance and too easy to loose track of things. Should be able to be virtually Standalone with the laptop hidden away from reach and do everything from the Push display.
6. Hold User + pressing Browse or Add Track give us a completely clean menu that's populated by whatever we tag as 'Favourite'. No Libraries, no nothing. All our Sets can be there instantly and loadable, and all our Go-To Sounds, no drilling through menu heirachies at all.

There could be more appropriate button combo's for utilising these, but you get the idea.

Now we'd have a device that's great in studio and on stage.

Who's with me?
MacBook Pro Retina. Ableton 10/11.

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