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Angstrom wrote:



It's a railway simulation game controller, but I like the stupid look.

it comes with an SDK so it can support other 'games'.

I forget, is Live a game.. or not?

Choo Choo!!!!

hambone1,
yes I use i both with Mac an PCs. Don't know about the number of scene it can launch. I have the 58 keys version and I tried to push max 3-4 keys at the same time.

Anyhow it can be used with dedidcated driver OR with permanent rom setup, so you can ove it from one machine to another.

I paid it a lot form X-Keys, but I think you can find something similar in some Taiwan e-commerce site for 10$...

Spaturno wrote:hambone1,
yes I use i both with Mac an PCs. Don't know about the number of scene it can launch. I have the 58 keys version and I tried to push max 3-4 keys at the same time.

Anyhow it can be used with dedidcated driver OR with permanent rom setup, so you can ove it from one machine to another.

I paid it a lot form X-Keys, but I think you can find something similar in some Taiwan e-commerce site for 10$...

I'm not so concerned about pushing more than one button at a time, but the ability to assign all 128 buttons to different functions (one-shots, loops, FX, scenes, etc). With MIDI controllers, you can use all 128 MIDI notes and all 16 MIDI channels to make loads of buttons in MIDI Map Mode. But I suppose the X-keys can only send ASCII commands like a computer keyboard, and as such is only useable in Keyboard Map Mode, and Live doesn't recognize all 128 ASCII commands.

Thanks for the info!

I take that back!

I just had a play around, and Key Map Mode lets you use alt and shift-alt with the keys, so if the X-Keys could program those modifiers (and I'm sure it can), it would be easy to assign 128 keys using lower case, upper case, alt, and shift-alt.