Another video from Joey paranoia showing the APC40 as a step sequencer and massive looper. These videos show that the APC40 is more flexible than you think, so get creative!
Cool video from Joey paranoia showing the APC40 working as a step sequencer drum machine in Ableton Live. You can buy the template for $10 but I think you’d benefit more if you worked out how it worked and made your own. This shows that the APC40 is more than a clip launcher for Ableton Live.
Here’s a good video from Joey Paranoia demonstrating the APC40, Launchpad & Ableton Live working together as a big step sequencer/Ableton Live controller. He explains exactly how these work together and shows them in action. The main reason for posting this up is that it shows how customisable the launchpad and APC40 are.
This should give you some inspiration to create your own set up and stand out of the crowd.
Go forth and create!
Video from Matthew Davidson, monome expert. He talks about how Max for Live and the monome work together and the intergration between Max/msp & Live. Matt’s also put up some videos show the monome with Max for live.
Cheers Matt.
Zander
As Max for Livehas is now available we are going to be seeing more videos of users doing their thing with a whole host of stuff.
Today it’s monome time, (oooo yeahhh). These videos are from Matthew Davidson and show the monome interfacing with Ableton Live using Max for Live and monome apps. Monome apps used are polygome & step filter and he says he will be sharing the apps soon so keep checking his site.
Nice video showing the APC40 and Launchpad working together in harmony. Putting these two together could be a winning combination. Kind of an add on for APC40 users.
Novation Launchpad
Novation put there left foot into the Ableton Live controller market this week and announced the release of the Launchpad. The Launchpad is an Ableton Live controller based around an 8×8 button matrix similar to an Akai APC40 or a monome. The controller has been developed in conjunction with Ableton and is officially supported and endorsed by Ableton.
The controller itself bares an incredible resemblance to an Akai APC40 without buttons and a monome with menu buttons and a plastic case. The 8×8 matrix works the same as an APC40’s, launching, stopping and arming clips and is fully backlit with different colours for different functions.
Along the top and right hand side of the unit are buttons for editing parameters with the pads. The top has the grid navigation, i.e. that red box you get in Ableton + APC40 around the 8×8 clips being used. You also get buttons for selecting between the mixer, FX and user mappings so you can use the pans to input data. The right side you have vol, pan sends, solo, track on and track arm buttons. The idea is that you use the pads as a vertical button fader to make adjustments. See the video below for more details.
The Launchpad runs on USB which has a little L shaped USB lead which connects on the right hand side. Novation have said that they you can use Launchpads together to create more control, definitely an interesting note so as you could get two people performing together. The Launchpad also runs on Novations Automap which gives it the edge over the APC40 which has no dedicated editor yet.
Now heres the really important part. The Launchpad retails at £150,which is a hell of a lot cheaper than a monome or Akai APC40. Could the Launchpad be a monome or APC40 killer? Well I’ve just purchased an APC40 and I’m not worried about losing out to the launchpad, no buyers remorse here as I really wanted some knobs to twiddle. Monome might be a bit worried but that said a monome is a very powerful tool and totally customizable so maybe not.
Createdigitalmusic.com got to twiddle and fiddle with a prototype so check out there post and so did musicradar.com.
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Live Kid beyond loops and layers up his voice using Ableton Live and a foot pedal. This gives him the abilty to build up his songs, creating and looping beats, bass, synths, scatching, keys and finally vocals. Check out these videos to see him in action and hear him talking about how he use Ableton Live. Also Go to his website and buy his CD, it’s worth it.
Zander
