Max for live tutorials

New video tutorial up. Understanding and using clips in Max for live.

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Livid Block NE front

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Livid creators of the Block & Ohm64 controllers have teamed up with Nova musik to create a cool new block paint job. The new block has an all black enclosure with black anodized aluminum faceplate and green LED’s.

The block NE is limited edition, costs $399 (USD) and is availible from Nova musik.

Heres a video showing what the LED’s look like.

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Audiomulch 2.0 tutorials

New audiomulch video tutorial up. This one is for beginners and covers the basics of using the southpole filter module.

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Max for live tutorials

New tutorial section up on the site covering Ableton’s Max for live. I’ve started to put up some Max for live tutorial videos. This one focuses on the basics of Max for Live, objects, observers and paths.

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Akai APC20

Big news from the Akai camp for winter NAMM in the form of the APC20, the APC40’s little brother. The APC20 is a stripped down version of the APC40, losing all the knobs, buttons, transport controls and crossfader. This obviously reduces the size by about a third but also reduces the price with a retail of $299 and an expected street price of $199, a lot cheaper than the APC40.

The APC20 has kept much of the flexabilty of the APC40 with most of the functions performed by the knobs being intergrated into the APC20 in the form of selectable user modes. Transport controls as well as device control have been kept but you have to switch between them using the shift button. The faders then act as a multi function controller aswell as normal mixer faders. There is also a new note mode where the button matrix doubles as a note trigger mode for playing instruments or triggering devices etc.

For most APC40 owners this is a bit of a waste of time for Akai as you lose the knobs which is one of the best things about the APC40 over the Novation launchpad. The APC20 could just end up as a launchpad with faders but is not quite as flexable and more expensive. The APC20 can be used in conjunction with an APC40 to create an extended button grid.

Videos

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New tutorial video up how to use the APC40 to control video in Ableton Live.

The tutorial shows you how to utilise Ableton Live’s video function so it can be controlled by the APC40 whilst still manipulating audio. This could really spice up a laptop performance and make it a lot more interesting for the audience.

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Happy New year from Live-Laptops.com

Heres to 2010!!

Zander

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