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| Sinnica Hax |
Hello!
I was thinking of getting a Midi Controller to use for causing mayhem in my DAW for live recording purposes, I have the Edirol PCRM50 keyboard which has several knobs and sliders but it feels very unconvenient and I'd love to have a dedicated controller to program various envelopes to, while the Edirol can handle the generic melodies.
I tried searching for a topic about this but did not seem to find anything, and the guide in the stickied thread was published 2001.
I know I could google and all that, but this is TranceAddict, and we sidechain the crap out of everything while doing our jesus-poses, so i wanted to go here first
If you have any other ideas or solutions, I'd be most grateful for that too! |
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| nortek |
| Evolution UC33e, lots of knobs and faders. I have it. Almost haven't used it. I really dont like to do midimapping. |
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| Evol` |
I have Akai mpd24, and i in` love it.
Its pretty big and clean, pads are pressure sensitive, knobs can go fully 360.
It have 6 sliders, 8 knobs and 16 pads, all that x 4, for live recording you dont really need anything else.
Definatly a recomendation. |
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| amp3 |
| I have a trigger finger and love it, and just got an apc20. The apc20 is geared for ableton, but you can map it to pretty much anything. |
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| MSZ |
these are cheap and made pretty well.
behringer bcr 2000 (endless rotary encoders)
behringer bcf 2000
good thing about them, they come with a lot of presets downloadable; such as the whole reason program mapped. malstrom, subtractor, i think thor too, mixer etc.
but to be honest, as much as it was cool for recording automation. i had to sell it because im a mousewhore.
its also a good idea to stack these, but you can press a button and go to patch2.
btw, that eye-patch is looking badass bro :p |
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| Storyteller |
| I thought the BCF is crap. As soon as you automate the faders it makes so much noise you can't hear the music :p. A friend of mine has one. |
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| MSZ |
| loool. i used the BCR's which were really good. i assumed the BCF's would be as good. |
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| Storyteller |
| quote: | Originally posted by MSZ
loool. i used the BCR's which were really good. i assumed the BCF's would be as good. |
They're not bad. Just too noisy imo and thus annoying while producing. |
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| Sinnica Hax |
Thanks a lot for the input guys! Will research it a little more to see if I find anything that fits my needs, and as you say Storyteller, if it's too noisy, i dont think it'd be any good for me either :D
And thanks MSZ lol :thepirate |
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| MSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
They're not bad. Just too noisy imo and thus annoying while producing. |
theres gotta be someone on this board who also has it, your opinion is kind of weird, first you say its crap then not bad heh.
i saw some videos on youtube, and they seemed to be annoying when they hit the ends of the faders, but if someone were to use the faders without wanting them to be motored it could be useful because it seems like a cheap investment.
the bcr is good though :} |
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| nortek |
| do u really have to use the motors? its not really controller anymore is it but a feedback on what is automated??? |
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| MSZ |
i would be kind of surprised if you couldnt somehow turn off the motors.
im reading up on it now, some other people are complaining about the motor noise.
seems like you can though. |
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