Just ordered the Novation remote SL 25 and...

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Posted by LfmC on May-27-2008 14:22:

Just ordered the Novation remote SL 25 and...

..i have no idea is this thing any good.
I got it as a sort of gift, and since I had to decide fast, I picked it practicaly by intuition (long story, but suffice to say, it was get smthing now or forget about it)
So.. is this thing any good? I'm hopeing to replace my axiom 25, which frankly was a dissapointment for me. Also hopeing to finally use those controllers for once. It's usually just too much hassle connecting them to individual vst's. I heard about it's automap thing, but I'm unsure how it works. And more importantly, does it work? Do you actually use the controllers now?

Also I had a choice between the remote sl and remote sl compact. The guy at the store said smthing about the compact version being newer and had better mapping, is this true? I skipped the compact version as it had a lot less control, but I'm not sure if I did the right thing there.
Any help/info is aprecciated.

Posted by Nicolas Oliver on May-27-2008 14:33:

I have the 61 SL (I should have purchased the 37 and saved myself $100.00 but whatever...) and I really like it. Automap 2.0 just came out (a month or two ago) and it works great: it's quite easy to operate and makes adjusting parameters a breeze. I still have a lot to learn about its functions but I've got a handle on the basics and the controller does exactly what it's supposed to do. I suspect you'll be happy with it.

For what it's worth, I use Live 7 and a bunch of VSTs.

Posted by Warble on May-28-2008 16:16:

Novation Nocturn IMO

Have a remote 37 sl, it's decent fo sho.
Just find myself painting stuff in and not really using it.

I think the compact has same control, just no keys...

Posted by LfmC on May-28-2008 18:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Warble
I think the compact has same control, just no keys...

Zero has no keys, compact is a smaller version of the remote SL.

Anyway, thank you both for the info. I googled it a bit yesterday and it seems to be a great controller. Just one thing that bothers me: it uses a wrapper for the VST's, right? So what happens when I load that (cubase) project somewhere else? Do the VST's still load without the wrapper?

Posted by Massive84 on May-28-2008 18:40:

I have it for a year, Love it. You'll understand once you have it, especially if you like twisting knobs.

I punch my basslines with it 24/7