Ableton Forum

Hello,

I'm a mild Logic Pro user (mainly for composition), but also want to learn Live/Sampler for live performance.

I would like to get a control surface in the very near future to ease the pain of my mouse arm.

I have considered the following:

1) Mackie MCU Pro
2) Novation ReMOTE SL series (I could always use another keyboard controller!)
3) One of the controllers in Ableton bundles (UC-33e, Faderbox,...)

I would first like to ask how is the Mackie with Live/Sampler? I plan to use Sampler to create a new percussion kit and would like to get a controller to help me in the process. I don't really see myself using the controller much in a live setting.

I know they are hard to compare, but which one would you recommend?

I would also love to take a poll of which control surfaces people have/use.

Thanks

also would like to add and emphasis that I really do dread fiddling around with technical stuff. So ease of use and integration is of utmost importance.

I considered the Mackie but it seems as if it was made with Logic in mind.

MCU is great in live!!!

the only downside is working with live6's 'racks'....
where you can only automate the 8 'macros' and you can't go in and edit each device in the rack....
but lives midi mapping is really easy so I wouldn't worry about fiddling around with it...
my recommendation is either the BCR2000 or bitstream3x....
if you really want a NICE piece of gear...I'd go for the new Korg Zero series.
although Mackie controllers are very nice...