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This official Ableton video looks at making sounds in Ableton Live with Sampler.

Sampler is a sampling instrument, that brings multisample playback and import, as well as sound design capabilities, to Ableton Live.

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djsheldon’s Akai APC40 unboxing interview, without much unboxing and with a lot of Bourne-o-vision.

Product Specialist Eric McGregor demonstrates the Ableton Performance Controller, APC40 at the 2009 NAMM Show.

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This is another very nice Ableton Live tutorial from Mark Mosher, this time looking at Ableton Live 8 + APC40 + Remote SL controllerism:

This video is a step-by-step tutorial describing Ableton Live 8’s new custom parameter mapping methodology. The video illustrates how to map select parameters from VST plug-ins into devices and then control these parameters via the Novation Remote SL and the new Akai APC40.

The video also discusses how to add and access more than 8 parameters. Lastly, the video covers use of instrument racks and macro controls to map parameters from multiple devices to an 8 knob group.

You can get more of Mark’s thoughts on Ableton Live by subscribing to MarkMosher on Twitter.

This is another demo of the Looper in Ableton Live 8.

via DubSpot