Ableton has released an update to Ableton Live 7, version 7.0.18, adding better support for controllers from Novation, Akai and OpenLabs. Changes Ableton Live 7.0.18: Support for the Novation LaunchPad controller. Support for the AKAI MPD-18, MPK-25, MPK-61 and MPK-88 controllers. Support for OpenLabs devices. Several improvements for the AKAI APC.
The Akai APC40, shown above getting a workout with a Freestylers/Noisia/BustaRhymes/Dillinja remix/mashup, has gotten a lot of people psyched about hardware controllers for Ableton Live. To help showcase what people are doing with the APC40, Akai Professional has announced the European APC40 Video Contest, starting November, 1st and ending December, 31st 2009. Prizes include your… Read More The Akai APC40 European Video Contest
Livid Instruments‘ Peter Nyboer published an interesting post over the weekend, explaining his thoughts on why you should buy one of his company’s controllers, like the Livid Block, over alternatives from larger companies, like Akai’s APC40 or the Novation Launchpad: Jay and I first saw the APC40 at the NAMM convention in January. We went… Read More Livid Explains Why You Should Buy An Ohm64 Instead Of An APC40 Or A Novation Launchpad
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.
This set of videos, by Darren Cowley, demonstrates some advanced programming techniques with the Akai APC40 & Ableton Live. APC40 Customization (above): This is a quick Vimeo about how i’ve used Bomes to modify the behaviour of the APC40 within Ableton Live. Because of the high demand for the support of this template head over… Read More Advanced Akai APC40 Controller Programming With Ableton Live
Last week, we asked if the Akai APC40, the new, relatively inexpensive MIDI controller for Ableton Live, was going to make the monome irrelevent. It’s clear that the Akai APC40 is stealing some of the monome’s mojo, because the APC40 is cheap and offers a great array of controls. At $400, the APC40 is cheap… Read More Akai APC40 Hacking Guide
http://vimeo.com/5138842 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… Read More Did The Monome Just Become Irrelevant?
Synth Porn Saturday: David at Auditory Canvas posted this shot of his custom white Akai APC40: I’m not going to add any lettering etc as i like the minimal look, and it enables me to reassign some of the buttons and knobs without them then being labeled wrongly.
apc40 unboxing was uploaded by: djsheldon
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Winter NAMM 2009 APC40 Overview was uploaded by: AkaiProVideo
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