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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:18 pm
by Hidden Driveways
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
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:28 pm
by condra
ARDJ wrote: They also announced their partner ship with Serato will be full fledged in April.
Are you sure?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:38 pm
by [nis]
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).
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:47 pm
by Ralf
Wow, nice photos. Nikon D80, hah!
Thank you very much!
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:56 pm
by hoffman2k
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?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:59 pm
by lola
Ralf wrote:
Wow, nice photos. Nikon D80, hah!
Thank you very much!
They are not mine
I got the link trough a friend.
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:03 pm
by Ralf
lola wrote:Ralf wrote:
Wow, nice photos. Nikon D80, hah!
Thank you very much!
They are not mine
I got the link trough a friend.
Nevertheless, thanks for the link!
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:09 pm
by Ralf
[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!
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:09 pm
by condra
[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?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:38 pm
by Hidden Driveways
[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.
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:40 pm
by 8O
[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!
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:03 am
by [nis]
8O wrote:
Excellent - we have the juice to power retro-fitted motorised faders!
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.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:15 am
by Poster
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:26 am
by condra
Haha that demo guy is so dorky
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:38 am
by ARDJ
rozling wrote:
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
