APC40

This video demos using the Akai APC40 like a monome:

Blinken Park on the APC40 sending midi through the IAC driver to Ableton Live 8. We don’t need no stinking Monome.

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DJ Jazzy Jeff talks beatmaking with Ableton Live.

via AbletonInc:

DJ Jazzy Jeff is a legendary DJ and producer with countless hits and even signature scratch styles to his name. Jeff’s skills and knowledge have earned him a reputation as one of the industry’s musical godfathers. With over 20 years in the game and a back catalog covering soul, hip hop, jazz and house, he’s still making records and developing the art of the DJ. We got the chance to meet Jeff in his studio, so we took our cameras along. In this movie, Jeff shows us how he builds a beat and shares his thoughts on Live and Sampler.

In the past, we’ve covered a lot of the innovations coming out of the monome controller project and its vibrant developer community.

This video, though, shows a free Max/MSP patch, monomulator, that lets you use all of the Monome apps with an Akai APC40. With Akai APC40’s selling for about $400, monome hardware, which sells for $500-1,400 and has limited avaialbility, will look a lot less attractive to many.

Will the Monome hardware become irrelevant or is there enough value in its open concept to justify the extra cost?

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