Ableton Forum

Anyone thinking this will be a valuable tool for studio use as well, or really just a performance tool?

yes

In my opinion, even more valuable.

Now that I hear it's gonna be $399, I've officially launched into gear lust mode.

It's a must-have assigning clips to keyboard (piano or computer) sucks, this means you can tap out and jump-cut-hop-skip-flip from loop to loop and really program it like playing an instrument.

The whole idea was always that instead of dragging and cutting clips you would be able to record to arrangement by jamming clips on the fly; this thing is gonna let me do that.

!!!!!!!

In the videos the pres or whoever mentions that ableton has been working with some of the best hardware makers....blah blah blah. i'm interested in that "some" as opposed to just one.

are we to expect some other hardware manufactorers to release live specific controllers soon?

I'd be interested to see what a faderfox v3 might look like...

gurumonkey wrote:In the videos the pres or whoever mentions that ableton has been working with some of the best hardware makers....blah blah blah. i'm interested in that "some" as opposed to just one.

I noticed that, pretty certain I've seen a similar statement in a few different places.

It seemed a weird thing to say if they were only working with Akai, surely they'd have said "we wanted to make a controller, so we went to the best" - but they didn't.

Its possible they were referring to support for controllers in Live or probably more likely, it was just "lost in translation" - a poor choice of words and English not being their native language.

jonny72 wrote:

gurumonkey wrote:In the videos the pres or whoever mentions that ableton has been working with some of the best hardware makers....blah blah blah. i'm interested in that "some" as opposed to just one.

I noticed that, pretty certain I've seen a similar statement in a few different places.

It seemed a weird thing to say if they were only working with Akai, surely they'd have said "we wanted to make a controller, so we went to the best" - but they didn't.

Its possible they were referring to support for controllers in Live or probably more likely, it was just "lost in translation" - a poor choice of words and English not being their native language.

apparently... there are more controllers coming...

Thanks 3dot! Any chance you can share where you heard that from? I haven't seen anything from the Abes on the forum (although, trying to keep up with the threads is impossible).

Just want to know what my options are - although the APC40 is an amazing start!

combined with the new MAX integration, the controller also function as a STEP SEQUENCER!!! That's some great stuff. Very good move frm Ableton!!

I would like to see a 16x16 pad version for higher res/precision when it comes to step sequencers. X/Y Pad anyone? Touch sensitive pads for some combined drumming?

No midi out! would be nice to connect the BCR2000/BCF2000

The thing is, in the studio, I find myself defaulting to the mouse/computer quite a lot. My BCR2000 doesn't get that much use. I'll have to almost "train" myself to use the APC, but once I do, I'm sure it will be a much more enjoyable experience.

Seems obvious that you'll still have to use your mouse to set things up. Bringing clips in, making clips, adding effects, setting up instruments... I don't see how the APC is going to help with this.

You'll still have to drag an operator, or a delay out of the browser and into your set. You'll still have to program drums, play a melody, set up loop points, follow actions, and so forth.

But once you have the bare bones of a set put together it looks like it will be pretty hands free as far as performing it, improvising, jamming, or playback goes.

And that is pretty exciting. I'm stoked about it. I'm thinking an APC, my Axiom 49, my FCB1010 and my Macbook should make a pretty slick little set up!

And my guitar as well, if I ever learn how to play it....

YES