Best Midi Controller for Live 5. Help me decide

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Best Midi Controller for Live 5. Help me decide

Post by pghatak » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:02 pm

Greetings, all.
Thank you for coming and reading this forum. I need help from all the ABLETON LIVE experts out here.

I've been using LIVE for a while now, and I've been uisng the UC-33e controller. I've also been producing some tracks myself, that was played on Above & Beyond, TATW.

Now, I find myself, outgrowing the UC-33e controller. I feel there is never enough rotary controllers, for Sends and effects.

Can anybody help me decide what Midi controller works best for ABLETON LIVE 5. something that is within the USD $ 1500 range.


I need something, that has lots of rotary controls per channel (more than 8 is an overkill for me). Rather than using lots of channels, I use only 4 channels at a time, but with lots of sends and effects. Something that has either USB 2 or firewire is OK.

My observation is that the Project Mix IO has only 1 rotary per channel, and the Mackie control Universal, has no LIVE layout yet.

Please help!

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Post by Nixon » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:44 pm

well, both ain't very "knobby"
the doepfer drehbank IS....
But you may like the bitstream 3x from waveidea > www.waveidea.com/en/products/bitstream_3x/
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Post by Willyum » Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:12 pm

I would suggest you do a search on this board for the Behringer BCF-2000 and BCR-2000. They are both fully automated controllers for under $200 that also work in Mackie mode The BCR is mostly rotory and the BCF is Motorized faders. You can download the 'BCF-View' onlinewhich gives the controller window for when you are switching devices in Live (it shows, by name, what control is connected to what you're controlling.....No guess work)
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Post by zfigz » Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:50 pm

If you're really new with live I'd suggest that you use the keyboard. I find the keyboard manages to allow for most of the controller assignments I need. On top of this I have the BCR2000, which is pretty sweet. I just label all the knobs for a track and when I start a new track I usually start with new labels because that track will usually have different devices etc.


Unless you've got gobs of cash...check out the lemur at www.jazzmutant.com
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