I am impressed w/ Live, but just can't seem to do the VST sequencer thing yet.
These little boxes might help.
http://www.analoguehaven.com/
Sorry about the extra clicks to get to the products where the units are.
I was wondering, this is meant for Ableton Live, but could I reassign the faders, etc. to work with Scope?
This has a joystick, and faders, buttons, and looks as though I could assign it to a sequencer, maybe a hardware sequencer w/ MTC, and MMC.
It fits right where I want it to.
Will this dog hunt ?
Please, lie to me so I can buy it.
Fader Fox For Ableton Live 6.0
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FrancisHarmany
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hi jimmy,
i have one of the FF models and it is indeed a breeze to assign controllers to scope. only drawback is these units don't have USB-midi, but you can easily hook this up to one of your other midi-controllers or one of your midi patchbays you advertised a while back. the FF units are VERY sturdy and batteries seem to live forever (you can also use a PSU). they're not the cheapest, but you get value for money.
saw a demo somewhere on the web recently for a new midi device by kenton, http://www.kentonuk.com/kenton/killamix/killamix.html seems very nice, but a tad expensive.
what's not working for you with ableton? apart that it is a CPU hog and some edit functions take way too much time, it is a perfect tool for creative musicians who don't feel like reading a 500 page manual... and even so, their manual is written like we're all dumbasses... good for me
you just need to set up your midi in the preferences, get used to 'remote/track/sync' and of you go.
i have one of the FF models and it is indeed a breeze to assign controllers to scope. only drawback is these units don't have USB-midi, but you can easily hook this up to one of your other midi-controllers or one of your midi patchbays you advertised a while back. the FF units are VERY sturdy and batteries seem to live forever (you can also use a PSU). they're not the cheapest, but you get value for money.
saw a demo somewhere on the web recently for a new midi device by kenton, http://www.kentonuk.com/kenton/killamix/killamix.html seems very nice, but a tad expensive.
what's not working for you with ableton? apart that it is a CPU hog and some edit functions take way too much time, it is a perfect tool for creative musicians who don't feel like reading a 500 page manual... and even so, their manual is written like we're all dumbasses... good for me
you just need to set up your midi in the preferences, get used to 'remote/track/sync' and of you go.
andy
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King of Snake
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I have the Faderfox LV1 and it's a very neat little unit. As you say it's made especially for Live but everything just sends out midi so you can also use it to control scope. As far as controlling other hardware goes: keep in mind that the faderfoxed sends out fixed midi messages and there's no way to manually set up what is being sent. So whatever it is you're controlling needs to be able to freely assign midi cc messages.
The build quality is excellent (much better than your average behringer and m-audio plastic controller) and there's a lot of controls on a very small surface which is great if you don't have a lot of space,
The build quality is excellent (much better than your average behringer and m-audio plastic controller) and there's a lot of controls on a very small surface which is great if you don't have a lot of space,
I have Sonar 6.0, Cubase 4.0, and my QY700 w/ the Alesis HD24/96, and an Otari MX80 w/ 15ips/30ips.
The Otari and Alesis are way old, but sound great, and don't crash when you upgrade it.
I have never messed w/ Live, but hear nothing but good stuff. I played alongside of a Hot Shot DJ here in LV @ an exclusive private dance club for 6 months, and he used Live w/ a Kyma Capybara, and morphed, looped some crazy shit.
Many celebrities, posers, and wanna be Mafioso's embarrased themselves there nightly. I actually had Shakira, and 3 of her Bodygaurds shake it down in front of me once, my balls were smokin'.
The Kenton KillaMix looks awesome. I am starting to look like a DJ with ribbon controllers, fader boxes strewn around me.
This is good news. I will try this w/ a download demo from Ableton. Who knows, maybe I can learn to like a big sequencer in VST, especially one for idiots as myself. I just hate the piss poor customer service, and the " fixes " that takes months to get, and never work. I wish I could release bug ridden softwate and have dozens of free beta testers at forums point out all of my mitakes while patiently awaiting another fix that fucks everything up. They can suck my ass. I have seen one person who sucessfully makes money w/ Nuendo here in LV,...ONE !! Logic, and DP users seem to make money daily. Maybe it's the OSX O.S. that Mac makes. Thinking about it makes my angry, fuck it.
I will get the Fader Fox and attempt one more time to go VST, if it pisses me off just once, or I see a BSD, I will burn it. Cubase 4 CD, and learning CD's are used as my Jager coasters as I treat them like gum on the bottom of my shoe.
Thanks Guys, The Fader Fox appears to outrun dogs that hunt !!
Excellent.
The Otari and Alesis are way old, but sound great, and don't crash when you upgrade it.
I have never messed w/ Live, but hear nothing but good stuff. I played alongside of a Hot Shot DJ here in LV @ an exclusive private dance club for 6 months, and he used Live w/ a Kyma Capybara, and morphed, looped some crazy shit.
Many celebrities, posers, and wanna be Mafioso's embarrased themselves there nightly. I actually had Shakira, and 3 of her Bodygaurds shake it down in front of me once, my balls were smokin'.
The Kenton KillaMix looks awesome. I am starting to look like a DJ with ribbon controllers, fader boxes strewn around me.
This is good news. I will try this w/ a download demo from Ableton. Who knows, maybe I can learn to like a big sequencer in VST, especially one for idiots as myself. I just hate the piss poor customer service, and the " fixes " that takes months to get, and never work. I wish I could release bug ridden softwate and have dozens of free beta testers at forums point out all of my mitakes while patiently awaiting another fix that fucks everything up. They can suck my ass. I have seen one person who sucessfully makes money w/ Nuendo here in LV,...ONE !! Logic, and DP users seem to make money daily. Maybe it's the OSX O.S. that Mac makes. Thinking about it makes my angry, fuck it.
I will get the Fader Fox and attempt one more time to go VST, if it pisses me off just once, or I see a BSD, I will burn it. Cubase 4 CD, and learning CD's are used as my Jager coasters as I treat them like gum on the bottom of my shoe.
Thanks Guys, The Fader Fox appears to outrun dogs that hunt !!
Excellent.
i feel your pain... ableton live was very stable in its old days when there was no vst/midi instrument support (only audio, and midi automation). the last 2, 3 years they haven't released one version that was annoyance free. we are very lucky with SFP, only a few little things that can be worked around, but nothing essential.
Live6 is rather sluggish on my Powerbook G4 1.65Ghz when doing vst instruments. it's not a new machine, but still... my old G3 was capable to do quite some audio tracks in Live3, i can hardly open Live5 (last OS9 capable version?) on that machine, with nothing running. bad programming, astroman would say...
have you checked EnergyXT? http://www.energy-xt.com
i'm not on windows, so can't comment, but i hear nothing but great reports from this vst-host.
i have a friend who is a 2" 16 track zealot. he has a very nice tascam setup, but i wouldn't want to carry it around
i got a 2-track teac reel2reel recently. when i find the time, i'll do some testing wether all this analogue-is-way-warmer-than-your-daw-shit is really true
Live6 is rather sluggish on my Powerbook G4 1.65Ghz when doing vst instruments. it's not a new machine, but still... my old G3 was capable to do quite some audio tracks in Live3, i can hardly open Live5 (last OS9 capable version?) on that machine, with nothing running. bad programming, astroman would say...
have you checked EnergyXT? http://www.energy-xt.com
i'm not on windows, so can't comment, but i hear nothing but great reports from this vst-host.
i have a friend who is a 2" 16 track zealot. he has a very nice tascam setup, but i wouldn't want to carry it around
i got a 2-track teac reel2reel recently. when i find the time, i'll do some testing wether all this analogue-is-way-warmer-than-your-daw-shit is really true
andy
the lunatics are in the hall
the lunatics are in the hall
i would get a Novation ReMOTE ZeRO SL for ableton
much easier and faster way to work.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov06/a ... tezero.htm
much easier and faster way to work.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov06/a ... tezero.htm