Comments on: Livid’s Ohm64: Love Child of a Monome and a DJ-VJ Mixer Controller?

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:52:18 +0000

The APC and Ohm 64 are 2 similar but very different controllers. The APC is specific to Live and is sold as such. The APC is not a programmable controler. To some extent it is propreitary in nature. Ableton could probably have marketed it themselves as a live controller w/o Akai.

OHM is a general purpose controller that can be programmed to run- anything!

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Tue, 12 May 2009 17:57:08 +0000

[...] course, the APC isn’t alone. I’m still eagerly awaiting the Ohm64 from Livid, a beautiful controller with a wooden body, made with care in the US. Unlike the APC, the Ohm has [...]

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Tue, 12 May 2009 14:25:11 +0000

[...] course, the APC isn’t alone. I’m still eagerly awaiting the Ohm64 from Livid, a beautiful controller with a wooden body, made with care in the US. Unlike the APC, the Ohm has [...]

By: Mudo

Mudo — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:20:34 +0000

…
Hi guys…

Do you forget about LIVID comes with SOFTWARE (priced near 200-300 $)

I will love it with an innofader for scratching with Ms. Pinky…

Monome are great but more elitist than this ones…
Apc40 is colsed (mind too) solution, not for me. Sorry.

Behringer? maybe…

DIY modularity is the key!

…

By: maomao

maomao — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:17:13 +0000

This (nice) product has only blue LEDs

it’s nowhere near the APC40 for Session View control in Ableton Live (requires three clour, provided by two LEDs)

and it’s much more expensive. different targets I guess..

By: digitalbeatsyndrome@yahoo.com

digitalbeatsyndrome@yahoo.com — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:34:48 +0000

If they could only squeeze in 3 buttons per channel..1 for mute / solo/ arm.

By: PDX

PDX — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:41:50 +0000

The new Ohm looks amazing. I cannot see myself gigging with it just to make sure it would stay safe.

Still, I do not think I could justify buying one in the near future.

By: fractal

fractal — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:20:19 +0000

I love Livid instrument !

And this new Ohm is awesome!

Monome fanboys make me laugh…(behringer fans just make pity)
This is different gears.
Expensive? a tiny monome 64 cost 500 dollars!!!not ready to ship, you have to wait an artificial(but very commercial)time to have one,if you are lucky. for just a little device,the product cost isn’t the same as a Ohm(more buttons,faders,etc etc).And handmade with premium parts.

If you need fader and knobs this Ohm is perfect

By: ernesto

ernesto — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:13:42 +0000

i need it.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:08:16 +0000

Jay, you’re biased, so I’ll respond. ;)

First off – frankly, I think more 8×8 grids is a *good* thing, and that’s the end of it. A major part of the monome project is its software, not just its hardware. If you have devices that have grids that are multiples of 8×8, you have a metaphor for the hardware that works with different software, just as there are many keyboards that have 8 knobs and 8 faders and thus map neatly to some of the same things. Some stuff just makes sense.

It’s anything but a Behringer move. Part of what appeals to me about the monome hardware is that it is minimalist, and it’ll never have knobs and faders. But, of course, that means if you do want knobs and faders, the Ohm64 makes a lot of sense. (You can admire the monome aesthetically but use this.)

I do think the monome will become more available during the course of the year; that’s part of what the arduinome project is about. Also, my sense is (unlike the x0xb0x), if you get on the list for monome, you’ll get one, maybe not immediately, but soon.

Having gotten up close with both the previous Ohm and various monomes, they’re just totally different animals.

The Ohm’s price is not inflated. Material choice, low volume, and doing things like hand-assembly in Texas all have a significant premium. But, as the monome project has tried to argue, as well, a lot of the prices of the goods that we buy are artificially underinflated by workforces in other countries that are unpaid or paid in terms that take advantage of biases between our market and theirs.

Given what’s happening to economies all around the world, I think thinking about actually manufacturing stuff (as President Obama said last night on Leno, oddly enough), and thinking about local and sustainable production and distribution – whether you’re in Ireland or China – is a big deal.