While touch screens seem to have been strictly for the realm of DVS type DJs, Ableton Live seems to have ben left out – perhaps because Live is more of a button basher’s domain. [...]
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With the iPad available now and more touch-enabled devices likely coming soon, we finally have hardware that can be both display and controller, visual feedback and input device. [...] Whatever the platform, you can expect musicians to do weird things and make noise. (It is, after all, our raison d’être .) In this case, while the input controller is an iPad or iPhone, the emphasis remains on running sound from additional gear, whether an inexpensive hardware synth in the form of a Korg monotron or the ubiquitous Ableton Live. From the iOS inbox this week… Top: nonstandard sequencing . [...] This image, via The Bridge 1.0 manual, reveals the “Ableton Panel,” by which Live appears as a sort of virtual device inside the Serato DJ app. We’ve known since January that Ableton Live, the live production software, and Serato Scratch Live, a leading virtual vinyl and DJ app, were to be connected with new software called The [...] Many musicians and producers appear to be betting that the killer app for iPad will be Ableton Live. That is, they’re interested in controlling Ableton Live’s live performance engine, running on a full-featured Mac or PC, from the iPad as a touch control surface. Little wonder: the iPad, at US$500, has what’s likely the best multi-touch capacitive surface on the market for consumers, it’s portable, and its display can easily display whatever music parameters you want to [...] Image courtesy Liine. We got a first look at Griid , a dedicated Ableton Live clip launcher for the iOS platform, late last month. It’s now available in the iTunes App Store, along with pricing. [...] Inside an Ableton instrument sample. Photo ( CC-BY ) Cliff Beckwith . Live’s Instruments can be a terrific way to explore Ableton Live – rather than simply giving you black-box preset sounds, these include custom racks that can be customized, disassembled, and warped to your own applications. [...] The developers of Griid , the Ableton Live controller on iPad created by Richie Hawtin, have shared photos and screen captures early with CDM to give us a look at the upcoming app. Just over a decade after its original inception, Ableton Live itself remains a ground-breaking user interface design. [...] Ableton & Serato @ NAMM 2010 – The Bridge from Neil Bufkin on Vimeo . Serato’s The Bridge, as covered by Neil Bufkin in video for CDM above, is entering a beta [...] |
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