Another new controller - Niiiiiiice (almost)

[kristoffer1989]

And now that the secret handshake is busted. (only lack of the red square thing)

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE A APCMINI!
It is fucking huge. I just need the matrix:(

[RawTheory]

Have you seen NI's Maschine template for Live... It def has a secret handshake going on.. You must watch the tutorial video on it to see what I'm talking about.. let me find the link...hopefully this link will work if not just go to NI's website under Maschine and watch it..
http://www.native-instruments.com/newre ... ontent=477
It has some of the same features that the APC has .. the group buttons turn into arrows so you can move around the session view and launch clips and it gives feedback by blinking when the clip is playing.... you can even mute clips by hitting the pads... to the side of the pads it has its own scene button that turns the pads into launching scenes... its so dope you have to see it for yourself... I'm thinking about canceling my APC preorder and sticking with Maschine.. I don't DJ so I use it for production only.... For what its worth I dig Maschine as a midi controller along side Kore 2 and SL25 they work well together.... Yea the APC has a lot more than Maschine can offer I give it that for sure... but it just amazes me that NI was able to create this type of remote script that works in the same manner that the APC will... This should mean more companies will do the same such as Novation....

I made the exact same decision. I thought I was going to need an APC40 but then I realized that I never use the session view anyway so it would be complete overkill and force me to learn a workflow I don't really like. Maschine on the other hand fills gaping holes in my studio. Midi pad controller, Ableton Live control, hardware/software drum machine, step sequencing groove box (a la Roland 808), and performance based multi-FX processor.
To all those that don't use huge Session view sets and/or are in need of a pad controller should really read up on this device. I should be getting mine by middle next week and i'll let you all know what I think of it.

[sacredgeometry]

I would get one to play out live but I dont know how I would use it to be honest. My productions are pretty linear. Unless I wanted to change the arrangement on the fly using scenes but then I don't know if that would actually work musically

Are you kidding?

Tom Cosm has some really nice tutorials on how to take your linear based songs and chop them up to session view to play and mangle on the fly. Like a lot of people on here I do most of my doodling in session and then record and edit songs in arrangement view. Getting there from the arrangement view back to a usable session view for performance can be quite confusing unless you write really formulaic dance music.

i second that those videos are awesome. but i agree with him a little my production is very linear i dont use loops in my writing of music that much unless im looping drums etc but it has so many variations along the way by the end its impracticale for use with session view....but for playing live this is the tool i cant wait till it arrives it is the perfect tool on papaer.

does anyone know if we need to use it with the bundeled version? or will any version of 8 do

peace

Brian

[bagginz]

Off-topic, but it's funny that even Novation call the program Ableton instead of Live...

That's what you get when you name software with a verb rather than an adjective - a verb which is also used to describe the action that one often uses the software for.

Cheers,
bagginz