Akai APC 40 - The ultimate Ableton controller?

**corporation** · 05-25-2009, 09:50 PM

wow. only 5 per store... that kind of sucks...

**Andrew Loay** · 05-26-2009, 10:14 AM

Hey. Sorry It's been almost a week and I only had an hour to play with it so far. Here are some pictures of it right now. Hope to see more pictures of your setup when the 30th hits.

**deepstereo** · 05-26-2009, 11:02 AM

niiice! I didn't realise it was that big
how's the build quality?

**Andrew Loay** · 05-26-2009, 11:21 AM

the build quality seems good. the size isn't that bad I don't think. not with all the controls it has. the chassis is like an mpk49. it's lighter than i expected. the only complaint i have is the lack of an xy pad. it feels really weird controlling the x y parameters on two separate knobs. That can be remedied by an ipod touch or a monotouch though

**Flaekiface** · 05-26-2009, 11:28 AM

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/20...ller-unboxing/

**tekki** · 05-26-2009, 01:27 PM

I are so jealous guys!

(And, the APC40 Tom Cosm vid can also be found on his website, if I am correct.

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**deepstereo** · 05-27-2009, 03:21 AM

Great video!

**feralchimp** · 05-30-2009, 05:17 PM

Does this come with a software utility that allows the MIDI out data from the device to be modified? Should I care? Ableton and Traktor both seem to be pretty flexible on the MIDI interpretation tip, but I love how the zeroSL let me define the messages (as opposed to just 'learning' inside Torq, for example).