I stupidly bought on impulse the novation controller thing for doing some mixes for potential podcast nonesense with me and some mates and find it a bit flimsly and the buttons too small, in hindsight i mabye should have got the push for ableton. im wrkn a lot over xmas n new year so will have decent coinage so ill keep the novation midi controllers in bag for use at work... but want something i can get into again, and after talk in another thread about synthesis mabye a sampler is the answer i like the old S01 but its too much of a workflow hassle also the sound certainly isnt any good for dnb prod. cant hurt to try the mpc ill just sell it if i dont like it also i like the use of word kool comming from you must be good bit of gear and its all about sound for me. Regarding the podcasts im killing two birds with one stone by getting my lad a little extra for his xmas by buying a numark mixer so ill get a shot when hes not around lol.
which one? is that the APC type controller copy? or the remote zero?
I've got a novation remote SL, which I love, its definitely plasticy and doesn't scream quality, but i love it now, I use it as a controller for a mastering bus, rather than as one that flips between different effects and synths...agreed as a mix control its not great, the faders are far to small
I have a novation remote zero, and I love it, it sits under my screen as a controller strictly for the master bus...although it does have faders, they are utterly useless for controlling a mix (I use them as a parameteric EQ), as with any midi-control, they are limited to a very low resolution, 128 stops basically, so if you want to make adjustments smaller than ~0.7db, you cant do it...you need something like a Eucon controller, like the Avid Artist series, they work over Ethernet and provide excellent precision mixing, but... Eucon isn't built into Ableton, so kinda screwed really without an analog desk
yep MPC really does sound awesome, no getting around it, although it only sounded amazing after I was told about the "special sound" it has when the gain is driven hard while recording...for that alone its brilliant, one day I want to build myself a little pre-amp based on the elecontrics of it, coz it has that dirty sampler/hiphop sound that only an MPC can produce...really was a royal pain in the backside to use tho, and massively limited, i couldn't live with it myself