For Ableton Live users who are using external MIDI hardware to play sounds in Ableton Live using a Velocity Curve Editor can be crucial. Especially drummers depend on getting a good translation of their playing velocity. For drummers volume and velocity is a big part of their expression and of their style. In the electronic … Read more
DISCLAIMER: this review is not ment to be a full check on all the functions of the Alesis Strike Multipad (Get your Alesis Strike Pad here!) *affiliate link*. This review is mainly paying attention on it as a MIDI controller with Ableton Live. It compares it with similar products on the market like the SPD-SX … Read more
I was always fascinated by the idea to be able to run around on stage playing drums when I perform. For my band Ego vs Emo where we do a mix of electronic dance music with Ableton Live + sax + drums, I ‘m always thinking about how to improve the possibilities of not being … Read more
When using the BopPad (Get yours here!) *affiliate link* with Ableton Live you run into limitation as you only get 4 pads to trigger samples, clips or scenes. You can select between 4 different preset slots but that only gives you a total of 16 different MIDI note pitches and it is not a really … Read more
UPDATE: This device was updated to V2 and is now only available as a paid device HERE. You will find more info on the Version2 of the Note Toggle Drum Rack on this page here. For some users Ableton Live is all about looping. That is not surprising as Ableton Live Session View made it … Read more
When I was doing a review about the Roland SPD One Wav Pad (Get yours here!) *affiliate link*, I was struggling a little on how I should explain the editor. Roland decided to go with a text editor for this model, which is the only way to load and assign samples to the different slots … Read more