Akai APC 40
I have always thought one of the most frustrating things about Ableton is the lack of real hands-on control. You can do so much with it, but for me it has always been quite difficult to tweak sounds with the mouse. For example, it would be nice to be able to tweak the resonance and the cut-off at the same time when in Live mode.
This sweet looking piece of kit allows you to control pretty much everything in Ableton with your hands for instant gratification.
At the moment they cost £399 so they are not cheap, and seeing as I dont know how to use Ableton yet, I wont be purchasing one just for now.
I’d be very interested to know if anyone has got one, and how they get on with it though.
flow
June 30, 2010 at 5:54 am
i’ve used ableton a lot for non-live music production. interface was always a pain. bought an apc40, and within a few days was recording live music. added some extra software (APc tcl something or other google will marshall) to increase the functionality (midi note entry, mouseless navigation, drum machine) and it rocks. i love it. next up is working out how to re-assign the faders for sliding 8 band eq. its gotta be done.