2009 NAMM Show: Akai Professional announced the APC40 Control Surface – a sexy new hardware controller designed specifically for Ableton Live. Akai Professional partnered with Ableton to make the APC40 an optimal Ableton Live control surface. Because Akai Professional and Ableton designed the APC40 specifically for using with Live, you won’t need to map or configure its… Read More Akai APC40 Controller For Ableton Live
A review, via SonicState, of the tiny Korg nanoKontrol USB MIDI control surface.
Hercules has introduced DJ Control Steel, a USB mixing console that targets the pro DJ market. Description: Dual mixing decks on a steel surface Dual-deck DJ controller with equaliser and volume controls Track reading controls (jog wheels, effects, pitch etc.) Track mixing controls (cross-fader, volume faders, kill etc.) A wide mixing deck designed for mixing… Read More Hercules Intros DJ Control Steel
JazzMutant has announced the upcoming release of a new firmware for their Lemur multitouch-screen controller. The version 2 firmware update offers a host of new object features. Workflow improvements, scripting additions and other features allow the controller to be used with some of the most popular software applications around, with Ableton Live users, in particular,… Read More JazzMutant Lemur Update
DJ Richard Devine goes over the features of Stanton’s DaScratch (SCS.3d) – a touch sensitive software controller. Here are the details on Stanton’s new controller: Stanton’s StanTouch technology allows you to use traditional DJ-style motions and gestures on a touch-pad style surface to take full control over music and software applications such as Traktor DJ… Read More Stanton’s Awesome New DaScratch DJ Controller
Numark is now shipping the MixMeister Control DJ system, designed to let you focus less on the computer screen and more on your performance. Numark partnered with the MixMeister to create a hardware control surface specifically designed for interaction with and control of MixMeister software. MixMeister Control contains 94 pre-mapped hardware controls laid out in identical… Read More Numark Shipping Sexy MixMeister Control DJ System
Numark has announced Omni Control, a DJ control surface with built-in audio interface. It comes with Native Instruments Traktor LE 3 and MixMeister Fusion Live DJ software programs. Omni Control is not only a hardware controller for performing with the included software, it also houses a professional digital-audio interface to feed headphones and the sound… Read More Numark’s Sexy Omni Control DJ Controller
D.St-Amand has created some very cool looking designs for DIY MIDI controllers and is documenting his designs and work building them on Flickr. “I think that this is my very best channel layout! No wire, no front panel screw. Only one PCB will be made for the number of channel required, 2, 4 , 6… Read More Amazing DIY Controller For Ableton Live
Alfred Darlington, aka Daedelus, charts the evolution of his love of electronic sounds and gives us a private performance on his famous future toy, the Monome.
The video quality is pretty terrible, but this demo of “bwack’s very large sampler being properly operated by the family force 5” is, nevertheless, pretty cool. It looks a lot like a giant MPC. If you can add any info about this, let me know in the comments!
