Comments on: What Makes the APC40 Special: Interactive Clip, Device Control, Dedicated Buttons

By: zoopy

zoopy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:26:33 +0000

Dnuts, DIY man :) I like your ideas.

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Create Digital Music » New Music Tech Round-Up: NAMM in a Nutshell on CDM — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:25:07 +0000

[...] instrument and effects devices, and mixing. You can customize it with Max for Live and get interactive control of the program; see videos and hardware shots for [...]

By: Dnuts

Dnuts — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:43:05 +0000

wtf, this is the best they could come up with?

Did they not even look at Robert Henke’s monodeck II which had clip COLORS too (since it used rgb leds)?

Am I the only one who like to work on more than one channel at a time? i.e. dedicated eq and sends for each channel plus some spare dedicated controls on each channel to use for fx specific stuff.

I also like to jam quickly with solo/mute. I hope their buttons are really responsive…I think the implementation on the Korg Zero8 is better (toggle switch)

It would have been cool if they made this in modules:
1. clip matrix
2. master controls
3. track controls/virtual mixer

This way I could piece together a double wide matrix, full 16 channel midi mixer with sends/eq and just one master section.

By: Angstrom

Angstrom — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:21:28 +0000

In case anyone missed it

http://www.ableton.com/touch

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:42:06 +0000

multiple clips? on the max website I see that Live 8 is on it’s way. surely will have ability to trigger several clips at once on one track I guess.

this device looks good but I am not sure about the price. it is an empty mpc, so I hope it will be not that expensive.

By: 2tan

2tan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:14:04 +0000

Very neat..
But i said before..
Would it be too hard to drop three knobs on each channel so we could control eqing?
Or doesn’t anybody eq anymore?

By: Darren Inksetter

Darren Inksetter — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:33:28 +0000

The 3 colours are unique, but I do the same the same with a monome, with 4 states, off, on, 1/4 note flashing, 1/8th note flashing.

I am really curious as to what the left/right up/down thing does. If you go right, do you have access to more than 8 tracks? What happens to the faders in that case?