Livid product specialist and technician Gabe King and his production partner in crime Mike Abb made an awesome video showing their custom camouflage Ohm64 controller. Gabe and Mike are DJ’s, producers, musicians, and most importantly DIYers. This video shows how to create a totally custom controller using tools and supplies readily available at your local hardware store.

If you want to create a custom finish you can order our controllers unfinished form our store. Unfinished controllers are basically taken from our production line just before they get sprayed, so they are completely sanded and ready for any kind of finish you want to apply. If you have already put a custom finish on your controller, let us know!

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A short demo of some instruments I’ve been working on for the Ohm64. Read the vimeo page for more info.

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In between launching the Ohm64, making the editor, examples, and working on instruments for it, I’ve been gradually updating and fixing up Union as requests come in from users. We can now announce version 2.55! This fixes some bugs related to the Clip Bank, recording when in fullscreen, LFO sync, Freeframe effects layering, MoreKnobs module, BPM sync, captions, palindrome loop mode works when recording, and probably a couple other little things.
There’s some minor new features, too. Keying can be toggled on/off with MIDI (found in the MIDI setup panel in the Functions), and the Sync menus in the Movie panels can be controlled with MIDI, too.
In Video In, there’s a new feature that will records a measure (BPM dependent) of your video input to a specified clip bank slot. This provides a simple way to remix live events as they occur.
There’s also a new Control Element “LoopCueKeys” that re-assigns keyboard presses to control loop selections and cues.
If you own Union, you can use the link you received in your email to re-download the update, or send and email with your email receipt and/or serial number to contact@lividinstruments.com.
Enjoy!

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Pete made a new version of the Ohm64Editor is available (version 1.0.3). This version introduces LED pattern mapping. Using the LED pattern maker in the Editor software you can create patterns on the indicator LED’s (a.k.a. talkback) to create interfaces, patterns, or animations for interacting with your controller. These patterns can be saved in presets and there is also an option to import an image with threshold adjustments to turn it into a pattern. This can be useful for creating sections of the clip bank to be used as a drum pad, or setting up rows and columns for triggering. Here is a brief video where I show you how it all works. The standalone application and source code are available on our downloads page.

Here is another little video Pete made showing the details of the picture to light converter in the editor

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Recently I got an email from Ohm64 user Daisuke from Tokyo Japan. He was asking about a the “scar” in the body of his controller pictured below (to the right of the usb connection). I explained to Daisuke how Jelutong is harvested, so it seems like a good time to explain it here.

Jelutong wood is tapped for latex, then cut into lumber. We choose Jelutong because it is easy to mill, is very light for a hardwood, and is a renewable resource due to its quick growth. What particularly drew us to this wood is the multi-purpose usage. Most hardwoods are simply cut for lumber, but some are used for multiple purposes which cuts down on waste and make us feel better about using mother natures resources.

The scars in Jelutong wood is a result of the dual purpose harvesting of the latex tree. The tree is stripped, pierced with special tools, the latex is gathered from the piercing, then the tree is cut into lumber. The resulting scars can show up as small knot holes or in long lines depending on where the cut ends up in the board when we mill the bodies. We call it the beauty of dual purpose wood.

Alot of our customers are very into the resulting appearance of Jelutong. The beauty of using wood as the body for a controller is that no controller is exactly the same, each has different properties in terms of lines, knots, and marking. Some people are allergic to certain woods however, so if you are one of them let us know and we can create you a controller out of something other then Jelutong, we have plenty of Maple, Mahogany, and exotic woods in our shop.

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