NOVATION LAUNCHPAD

Hi guys, ive been thinking about getting one of these machines. Im currently using Cubase but im going to do Ableton in the future. Which one of these guys would you suggest i get: NOVATION LAUNCHPAD (im loving this one, the price is a killer too), AKAI APC 20 or MASCHINE MIKRO? would it work for Cubase for the time being or Ableton is where to make the most of them?

How about producing on Cubase and then exporting loops into Ableton liVe? that´s how I do it when I feel like jamming to my music.

that could work i guess. any hints about the machines that i asked about?

oi there!

check out this..looks promising and a rather clever way to fund this through kickstarter..nice endorsers already

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/11/quneo-trades-tablets-for-discrete-pressure-sensitive-colorful-sensors-in-crowd-sourced-touch-project/

boingboomtschak,

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$49,968 for a piece? WOW it makes 3 pieces of QuNeo for the price of one LaunchPad!!! hmmm

looks like its $200 and not $49, stupid of me

Mikro is great if you´re doing beat-oriented music, such as hip-hop. I wouldn´t buy a maschine mikro. It lacks one screen and knobs.

The launchpad is lightweighted, fancy and quite the eye candy.

Check out my latest video (shameless self-promotion, I know)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd7K6j6EWVE&feature=channel_video_title

something i will never understand about these things [as an owner of an akai apc ableton device] is ... why dont you just compose the whole track scene by scene and do it that way, going down the list triggering it as you go, one press at a time? what reason is there to use all the buttons? i haven't gotten any significant usage from my hardware controller, i see it as being an artificial way to make it appear that i'm really doing more than pressing play, when in reality it is a very small amount

  On 12/1/2011 at 6:56 PM, vamos scorcho said:

something i will never understand about these things [as an owner of an akai apc ableton device] is ... why dont you just compose the whole track scene by scene and do it that way, going down the list triggering it as you go, one press at a time? what reason is there to use all the buttons? i haven't gotten any significant usage from my hardware controller, i see it as being an artificial way to make it appear that i'm really doing more than pressing play, when in reality it is a very small amount

a little thing called improvisation.

  On 12/1/2011 at 6:56 PM, vamos scorcho said:

something i will never understand about these things [as an owner of an akai apc ableton device] is ... why dont you just compose the whole track scene by scene and do it that way, going down the list triggering it as you go, one press at a time? what reason is there to use all the buttons? i haven't gotten any significant usage from my hardware controller, i see it as being an artificial way to make it appear that i'm really doing more than pressing play, when in reality it is a very small amount

You should know that I can only use 8 scenes and 8 audio tracks, so I can´t load more than 8 clips into one scene.

By the way, having to press only ONE button at a time would be too easy and boring. I like being able to improvise.

By the way, I had to laugh when the OP said something about "doing Ableton in the future".

I didn´t know one could do DAWs...

my bad english you see. yet, its obvious that i meant "learn". what you say is out of topic and totally irrelevant. i was asking about controllers and not how good my english is. there are a lot of people out there who can hardly speak english and writing half english half hell knows what. somehow i always understand what they mean and never have the urge to laugh at what they have to say. thanks for the tips anyway

  On 12/1/2011 at 6:56 PM, vamos scorcho said:

something i will never understand about these things [as an owner of an akai apc ableton device] is ... why dont you just compose the whole track scene by scene and do it that way, going down the list triggering it as you go, one press at a time? what reason is there to use all the buttons? i haven't gotten any significant usage from my hardware controller, i see it as being an artificial way to make it appear that i'm really doing more than pressing play, when in reality it is a very small amount

Cuz mice suck.

Also Max4Live.

  On 12/1/2011 at 8:40 PM, mollekula said:

my bad english you see. yet, its obvious that i meant "learn". what you say is out of topic and totally irrelevant. i was asking about controllers and not how good my english is. there are a lot of people out there who can hardly speak english and writing half english half hell knows what. somehow i always understand what they mean and never have the urge to laugh at what they have to say. thanks for the tips anyway

No need to let rage take over you. I just had to laugh when I read that, but hey, I´m also no native speaker as such, thus there will also be people who laugh at some of the sentences in my posts.

Take it easy .)

  On 12/2/2011 at 9:03 AM, mischjok said:

  On 12/1/2011 at 8:40 PM, mollekula said:

my bad english you see. yet, its obvious that i meant "learn". what you say is out of topic and totally irrelevant. i was asking about controllers and not how good my english is. there are a lot of people out there who can hardly speak english and writing half english half hell knows what. somehow i always understand what they mean and never have the urge to laugh at what they have to say. thanks for the tips anyway

 

No need to let rage take over you. I just had to laugh when I read that, but hey, I´m also no native speaker as such, thus there will also be people who laugh at some of the sentences in my posts.

 

Take it easy .)

No hard feelings my friend

  On 12/2/2011 at 9:07 AM, Jonas said:

Want to get a launchpad eventually, Renoise is getting more and more (sequencer, trigger) scripts/tools to make use of such controller.

If you ever mess with Duplex, let me know how it goes. I don't think I can control it via an APC40, can I?

  On 12/1/2011 at 4:59 PM, mollekula said:

looks like its $200 and not $49, stupid of me

I'd be suprised if it goes for $200. Does look cool tho. I saw it earlier.

Some updates on the QuNeo:

http://www.kickstart...b-pad-con/posts

looking really promising. 3 days to go..

I use my launch pad primarily as a monome emulator in live via 7up... kinda like this:

I would get the AKAI, cause I don't want to use only pads and AKAI does quality products and have a certain "cool" feel.

had APC20 for a month, liked it so much I got an APC40, 100% worth the money. My compositions have way more natural builds, drops, and changes as a result of setting up lots of sends and controls on each track, and then testing out things immediately vs. drawing automation. Launchpad I hear is great, but frnakly I don't much need 8 rows, so I'd take the APC20 instead since it's the same price, and having dedicated Track On / Solo / Record / Faders is 100% worth it.

It's bigger than the launchpad but not by that much, and I don't really care for the bigger launchpad buttons. Oh, one other con of the APC20/40 is that it needs an AC adapter, which is annoying, but not a huge deal unless you want the ultimate convenience of taking just launchpad/laptop around to places with no outlets for like hourlong jams.

But seriously, the APC40 is completely awesome. APC 40 doesn't have the "note" mode that the 20 does, but that is pretty worthless IMO.

I just bought the APC40. Absolutely can't wait to get it. All the reviews are really positive for it, and I found it on sale $50 off. On that note, I also just bought, today, the MPK49, also on sale for $60 off + free shipping. But anyways, the APC40 is apparently really really good, as iamabe has said. I'm so pumped to get these two items.