my NAMM 2009 Winter Review (pics + vid)

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Post by Hidden Driveways » Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:18 pm

Tone Deft wrote:I see a USB cord with a ferrite in it (the big black cylinder) and a small power cable that looks like it came from a motherfucking WALL WART!! god I hate those things. oh well...
Agreed... I just got a Central Station and I was sooo depressed when I opened the box to find a big heavy new wart awaiting me.

It's all a part of the friendly $399 price tag though...

You can see the two 1/4" jacks here if you scroll down a tad:

http://www.ableton.com/touch
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Post by condra » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:28 pm

ARDJ wrote: They also announced their partner ship with Serato will be full fledged in April.
Are you sure?
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Post by [nis] » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:38 pm

Hidden Driveways wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:I see a USB cord with a ferrite in it (the big black cylinder) and a small power cable that looks like it came from a motherfucking WALL WART!! god I hate those things. oh well...
Agreed... I just got a Central Station and I was sooo depressed when I opened the box to find a big heavy new wart awaiting me.

It's all a part of the friendly $399 price tag though...
The APC40 is unfortunately NOT bus powered. Due to the huge amout of LEDs, the overall power consumption is too high to get powered from a USB connection (USB can only provide a max. of 500 mA).
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Post by Ralf » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:47 pm

Wow, nice photos. Nikon D80, hah!
Thank you very much!
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Post by hoffman2k » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:56 pm

condra wrote:
ARDJ wrote: They also announced their partner ship with Serato will be full fledged in April.
Are you sure?
Dude.. Messe is on Aprils Fools day. What could possibly go wrong?

*starts planning the most elaborate hoax likely to drive this place mental*

Ableton teams up with Microsoft's Songsmith team?
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Post by lola » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:59 pm

Ralf wrote:
Wow, nice photos. Nikon D80, hah!
Thank you very much!
They are not mine :D
I got the link trough a friend.
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Post by Ralf » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:03 pm

lola wrote:
Ralf wrote:
Wow, nice photos. Nikon D80, hah!
Thank you very much!
They are not mine :D
I got the link trough a friend.
Nevertheless, thanks for the link!
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Post by Ralf » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:09 pm

[nis] wrote: The APC40 is unfortunately NOT bus powered. Due to the huge amout of LEDs, the overall power consumption is too high to get powered from a USB connection (USB can only provide a max. of 500 mA).
If I count correctly, that's 379 LEDs which might light at the same
time, especially if you tinker around with MfL. 240 for the endless encoders, 80 for the 5x8 Matrix, etc.

They are quite bright, so even if they are low power versions and take only, let's say, 4 mA (in case of a 1:1 busy cycle), that's already 3 times the capacity of an USB link, for the LEDs alone. Wow!
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Post by condra » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:09 pm

[nis] wrote: The APC40 is unfortunately NOT bus powered.
Hmm ok that's interesting. No biggy though.

So can anyone confirm, did Ableton say something about the Serato thing coming to fruition in April?
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Post by Hidden Driveways » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:38 pm

[nis] wrote:
Hidden Driveways wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:I see a USB cord with a ferrite in it (the big black cylinder) and a small power cable that looks like it came from a motherfucking WALL WART!! god I hate those things. oh well...
Agreed... I just got a Central Station and I was sooo depressed when I opened the box to find a big heavy new wart awaiting me.

It's all a part of the friendly $399 price tag though...
The APC40 is unfortunately NOT bus powered. Due to the huge amout of LEDs, the overall power consumption is too high to get powered from a USB connection (USB can only provide a max. of 500 mA).
Given the choice, I would have taken more buttons (and brighter buttons) over bus power anyway.
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Post by 8O » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:40 pm

[nis] wrote:The APC40 is unfortunately NOT bus powered. Due to the huge amout of LEDs, the overall power consumption is too high to get powered from a USB connection (USB can only provide a max. of 500 mA).
Excellent - we have the juice to power retro-fitted motorised faders! :wink:
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Post by [nis] » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:03 am

8O wrote: Excellent - we have the juice to power retro-fitted motorised faders! :wink:
Hehe...already thinking about all possible hacks, huh? I'd rather have mini-LEDs on every fader which show the position of the track volume controls. Another cool thing would be to use an iPod Touch / iPhone + one of these guys here:
http://www.puremac.de/images/produkte/1 ... tand-1.jpg
...and use this as a display for mapped device parameters. Just need to find someone who codes the iPhone app. ;)
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Post by Poster » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:15 am

and finally a nice vid from the booth..

http://en.440tv.com/video.php/v/2140/Li ... -NAMM-2009
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Post by condra » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:26 am

Haha that demo guy is so dorky :lol:
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Post by ARDJ » Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:38 am

rozling wrote:Image

Yum.
yah i got to play with that for about 20 minutes... really interesting stuff. they had a smaller 4 track version of it as well that looked like a mini skateboard ;)
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