Re: Do you think these controllers can be enough for livelooping with ableton?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Hi Sergio,

To find an accurate answer to your questions regarding controller gear
you would need to first sit down and make a list of all processing
actions you plan to do when performing. When that is done you may see
right away if the LV2 will be sufficient, and if not, how many and
what type of control options you really need.

Latency can not be "solved". It takes time for information to travel
over a distance. Maybe you wondered about the MIDI latency
specifically in the Behringer FCB1010? It's by no ways as fast as a
MIDI keyboard but personally I have never had an issue with the
Behringer, as I have used it mostly for commands that are quantized at
the receiving end anyway. If you plan to use it for non-quantized
processing that is timing sensitive you can get the figues from Andy -
he did some measuring of MIDI latency a while back.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Sergio G <simpliflying@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> As some of you know, I plan to do livelooping with a combination of
> Octatrack and Ableton.
> For Ableton I have a launchpad which I bought used before I knew about 
> the
> APC40. And a friend of me gave me for few money a Faderfox LV2.
>
> Now I wonder if I should try to get the APC40 and eventually sell the 
> rest,
> or if I should rather try to complement the launchpad/LV2 with other 
> things.
> I am 90% sure to buy an akai mpk25 because I need a midi keyboard, both 
> for
> ableton synths and for my waldorf blofeld.
> And the mpk has got knobs and velocity sensitive pads, so together with 
> the
> launchpad/LV2 it should cover most of what the APC does, right?
>
> I do not play guitar so my hands are free, this is why I did not think 
> about
> a foot controller yet, but part of my setup will be percussions, and 
> later a
> theremin, and I am already trying to figure out how can I organize all 
> these
> things close enough to the controllers and to the OT, so to be able to 
> press
> the button to start recording a loop and then immediately start playing 
> the
> instrument without having to jump 5 meters like a kung fu monk.
> So I was trying to understand if it was better to buy a foot controller 
> like
> the beringer for example, or the yamaha (I find it for very cheap. Were 
> the
> latency problems solved finally? I have read some negative comments of 
> Andy
> about that), and place it near to the theremin and to the percussions, 
> or if
> I should buy a couple of individual midi footswitch one near the theremin
> and one near to the percussions.
> My audio interface has got midi in and midi out.
> I prefer to start thinking about it now. And you are the most expert live
> loopers so, nobody can tell me that better than you.
>
> :)
>
> Ser