New Akai controller for Ableton Live

lcvl · 15th January 2009

APC40 ABLETON CONTROL SURFACE

edit machine · 15th January 2009

wow, that looks awesome.

msl · 15th January 2009

That does look pretty awesome!

sleepwalker · 15th January 2009

I will own that. It would also be awesome for VJ's provided you can change the CC's

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Originally Posted by msl

That does look pretty awesome!

Swami Digital · 15th January 2009

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I will own that!

-D.

Jazzpunk · 15th January 2009

Akai nailed it with that, those are going to sell like hot cakes. Pretty smart.

d1rtynyc · 15th January 2009

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Originally Posted by Jazzpunk

Akai nailed it with that, those are going to sell like hot cakes. Pretty smart.

Yes!

I now need to find more desk space. As soon as I have it figured out something has to temp me.

Tapwatr · 15th January 2009

Anybody know the MSRP? I was about the buy a Novation ReMote Zero but may hold off now.

wax808 · 16th January 2009

Supposedly $399

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e6400ultra · 16th January 2009

The NI Maschine looks sick, too:

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Create Digital Music » NI Maschine: Fully Integrated Hardware-Software-Plug-In Drum Machine, Controller

edit machine · 16th January 2009

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Originally Posted by wax808

Supposedly $399

that seems reasonable.

sigmatibet · 16th January 2009

Is there a release date already?

kodomo · 16th January 2009

It looks like I ll be parting with my trusty uc33 with this one, I was planning on buying seperate parts and building nearly this, so if the price actually floats around 400 mark, I ll definetly get one.
This could be really good utilizing in live shows with ableton, and there are remarks in todays ableton newsletter that with the new max for live they ll have nice stuff with this as a trio (max, ableton, apc40)

chillytc · 28th December 2010

Sorry to resurrect a year old thread but I just picked up an Akai APC40 today and spent 4 hours tonight jamming on it. I love Live for about 100 reasons and this thing makes it about twice as powerful for real time manipulations. I just wanna go on record that I freakin' love this thing. I wish it had motorized faders and more programmable knobs but I'll take it just like this and totally dig it.

plaid_emu · 28th December 2010

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Originally Posted by chillytc

Sorry to resurrect a year old thread but I just picked up an Akai APC40 today and spent 4 hours tonight jamming on it. I love Live for about 100 reasons and this thing makes it about twice as powerful for real time manipulations. I just wanna go on record that I freakin' love this thing. I wish it had motorized faders and more programmable knobs but I'll take it just like this and totally dig it.

It really is a nice device. Although oddly, it's hard for me to stop reaching for the mouse after so many years with Ableton. I sometimes forget the damn thing is sitting right in front of me.

In addition to motorized faders, I wish they would've integrated the drum pads from the LPD8 on it. Then it would be damn near perfect.

Also, I personally don't need them but I'm surprised they didn't put a basic 2 channel I/O interface and headphone output on it and make an all-in-one solution for live performance with a laptop. I could see a lot of people being excited about that.

dimconcept · 28th December 2010

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Originally Posted by plaid_emu

It really is a nice device. Although oddly, it's hard for me to stop reaching for the mouse after so many years with Ableton. I sometimes forget the damn thing is sitting right in front of me.

In addition to motorized faders, I wish they would've integrated the drum pads from the LPD8 on it. Then it would be damn near perfect.

Also, I personally don't need them but I'm surprised they didn't put a basic 2 channel I/O interface and headphone output on it and make an all-in-one solution for live performance with a laptop. I could see a lot of people being excited about that.

Korg did.. It was called the Zero 8, and it failed.

T1M · 29th December 2010

I order one before christmas and Im still waiting for it to come in. Its sold out all over Canada apparently...

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lcvl Gear maniac Joined: Sep 2006 Location: Barcelona Posts: 251 Thread Starter	New Akai controller for Ableton Live APC40 ABLETON CONTROL SURFACE

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chillytc Gear nut Joined: Feb 2007 Location: San Francisco Posts: 123	Sorry to resurrect a year old thread but I just picked up an Akai APC40 today and spent 4 hours tonight jamming on it. I love Live for about 100 reasons and this thing makes it about twice as powerful for real time manipulations. I just wanna go on record that I freakin' love this thing. I wish it had motorized faders and more programmable knobs but I'll take it just like this and totally dig it. __________________ "My cat's breath smells like cat food." - Ralph Wiggum

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T1M 3 + infractions, forum membership suspended. Joined: Nov 2010 Location: Toronto Posts: 255	I order one before christmas and Im still waiting for it to come in. Its sold out all over Canada apparently...