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Hello Per,
no, I was talking of the Yamaha Mfc10, not of the Beringer. Andy said that the yamaha had too much latency and it was impossible to use it for livelooping. It seems to me that he was saying the beringer was ok for that. I cannot know EXACTLY all what I will want/like/need and be able to do with Ableton. I will know it after a while of using it. But I prefer to have controllers which are enough flexible to let me do quite lot of things, so I am covered. I would not like to be ina situation where I find that I want to do something and I cannot. Also, I am leaving my job to have some more time to make music, and I will work part-time with just enough for the expenses, so I would like to buy now what I know that will leave me covered for a relatively enough long while. Because then I will probably have no money for a gear for a long while. What would you suggest in this case? > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:40:06 +0200 > Subject: Re: Do you think these controllers can be enough for livelooping with ableton? > From: perboysen@gmail.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.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 > |