The StarrLabs Ztar Z6S-XPA and Z7S-XPA are advanced MIDI guitar controllers with the industry’s only zero-latency, 6-string x 24-fret touch-sensitive keyed-fingerboard. Each string trigger has its own tuning, so you get what amounts to a combination between a sophisticated MIDI guitar and an alternative key layout.

The StarrLabs airPad is a more traditional Ableton Live controller. It does boast a novel control layout, and it’s wireless, working in the 2.4G ISM band

[read more about these babies in CDM]

Ableton User Group Budapest
2010. september 24. (FRIDAY) 16:00 – 18:00
XMS / Duna Plaza, Budapest

yayyyyyyyyy, the summer break is over and the Ableton workshop is back!
this month’s meeting will happen next Friday
the main themes are:
- Ableton and Serato present The Bridge
- Simon Iddol presents how to make DJ mixes, mixtapes in Ableton

the workshop is free as always, but you have to register here

it’s more than clear that the future of DJing based on touchscreen apps
we been posting up many new ideas
here is a new one
Cristior from Belfast came up with this huge touchscreen based Ableton setup
looks simple, clean and effective

[via Skratchworx]

touchAble is the latest player on the ‘Ableton controller for iPad’ battlefield
it will be available on the AppStore soon (they are waiting for approval ATM)

meanwhile here is some info

- Navigate around your live set with the touch of a finger, tweak Lives mixer, instruments and fx with full automapping and unlimited tracks & parameters. touchAble allows live users to walk away from their computer and perform live from anywhere within Wi-Fi range while keeping latency at a minimum. Play your favourite synths with the unique double keyboard or record your rhythms with the 16 drum pads, including 5 velocity steps & octave selectors. Access the most important transport and clip functions without losing focus on your set and tweak the same set with two iPads with the unique Dual-User-Mode. Do you need to adjust volume, launch a new clip and play a device? Don’t worry – a smart and intuitive screen menu empowers the user to arrange and switch modules on the fly. -

we showed you this video few days ago
it turned out that it was the Griid‘s world premiere performance
by Richie Hawtin at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival
woooow

we will bring you more details as soon as we can
meahwhile check out the CDM’s post about the basics

wooohoooooooooooo
the most unexpected way to use Ableton Live EWWA
Zantho is creating pixel art by using ableton clip colors to paint
MAD LOVE!
Zantho is our hero from now on!!

[via djtechtools]

there are so many music apps for the iPad
a new one pops up almost everay day
here is a fresh ‘n promising one

Brooklyn, New York artist and musician Jameson Proctor (aka JP1971) released MxNM LE for the launch of the Apple iPad App Store.  MxNM LE (for Mix N Match MIDI Live Edition) was designed to bring wireless touchscreen control to Ableton Live. It does so by sending industry standard MIDI control change messages over a local WiFI network; therefore it can be used with many other popular audio and MIDI applications as well with minimal configuration. MxNM LE offers a total of 135 buttons, pads, and sliders, making it a perfect companion for your laptop to perform and produce computer music.

MxNM LE is the first in a series of controllers Proctor plans to release for Appleʼs innovative tablet computing platform. Future releases will include a studio mixer controller and a DJ controller as well as MxNM, which will take the mix and match idea to its logical conclusion by offering the user a fully reconfigurable control surface.

time for a new Ableton Live User Group Budapest @ XMS, Duna Plaza
it will happen on April 22. (Thursday) from 17:30 CET

the entry is FREE, but the places are limited, so you have to register

themes of this workshop:

- DJing with Ableton Live  presented by Simon Iddol
- controllers for Ableton Live
Stanton SCS.3.m
Kenton Killamix Mini
Akai APC 40
M-Audio X-Session Pro
M-Audio Axiom Pro
- free consultation, chat, Q&A session about Live

see you there!!!

Jazzmutant says
this is the first truly integrated Ableton Live touch controller
wohaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Ableton Live on a Lemur?
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