June 28, 2010
Native Kontrol has just released a preset for the block called Block Live. This is a really powerful preset for Ableton Live, and it opens up tons of creative possibilities for controlling Live. The Block Live script give you the “Red Box” feature of Live like our remote script does, but it goes WAY beyond that. This video created by Stray from Native Kontrol shows off pretty much everything you can do with it.
The video also shows the Block NE edition with a black body and green LEDs, only available at Novamusik.com
FEATURES
- Launch Mode provides an 8 Track x 7 Scene Clip matrix. Button LEDs indicate Clip status.
- Track Mode includes additional Track controls such as Mute, Solo, Arm, Select and Launch.
- Clip Mode allows you to chop up/rearrange Clips on-the-fly and/or play them Chromatically.
- Drum Mode provides a 4 x 4 grid of bankable drum pads along with Last Pads and 16 Levels features.
- Chromatic Mode provides a 4 x 4 grid of bankable chromatic pads along with Add Note, Pitch Bend and Sustain functions.
- Learn Mode allows you to learn Chords and their associated notes to the Block’s buttons.
- User Modes 1 and 2 each provides 5 Button Faders and 6 Buttons that are assignable via MIDI mapping mode in Live.
- Global Controls provide control over global parameters such as Tempo, Global/Record Quantization and Metronome.
- Knob Modes provide control over Track Volume, Pan, Send A-H and Devices via 11 Knob Modes.
- Fader Modes provide control over master parameters such as Master Volume and Cue Level via 3 Fader Modes.
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June 23, 2010
This month’s Tape Op magazine has a good review of the Ohm64 by Josh Boughey, who also happens to be the creator of the Stribe. If you don’t subscribe to Tape Op you should, it’s a great magazine and totally free.
Read the full review here.
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June 22, 2010
If you’ve been following this blog in the last few months, you have probably seen a lot of chatter regarding the analogness of our controllers. I am not just talking about faders and knobs either, I am talking about the way our controllers are made too.
Since the release of the builder we have seen some cool analog uses with the Brain. From Fox’s super controller, and my tutorial on using a foot pedal (video below), to touch sensor potentiometers. I will be posting a video next week on using the Brain with the SoftPots from Spark Fun.
There have also been some other developments and discussions on encoders vs. potentiometers, we’d love to hear your feedback on that as well. For the past few months we have been working in the shop on a new custom controller project that we will be announcing soon that was built on the Brain, but in the meantime all I can do is tease you with this picture, and tell you it is awesome.
In fact with a single Brain you can connect 64 individual analog controls. That’s a lot of knobs (or sensors). We haven’t only seen a few controllers reach that limit, and each one gets the same “wow” response. Whether you are controlling Live, adjusting effects in DNA, tweaking your EQ in Reason, or adjusting the volume on your favorite Milli Vanilli track, knobs are important! If you’ve been doing something cool with the analog you Brain, block, or Ohm64, let us know. If you’d like to what we’ve got in the works, well you are just going to have to keep reading this blog!
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June 17, 2010
We were recently contacted by Cuelux a company that makes software based lighting control for controlling intelligent, conventional, and LED lighting (that bit was take right from their site). They wanted to create native support for the Ohm64 to work with their software, for a complete hardware and software lighting solution. We have seen a lot of people using the block and Ohm64 for lighting, but it’s often a customized solution. Cuelux now offers a out of the box solution for controlling lights with the Ohm64.
We are really excited to see this, as the intention behind the design of the Ohm64 and block was to provide an adaptable instrument for many uses, and this illustrates just that. We now have auto mappings for Ableton Live, Propellerhead’s Reason and Record, Traktor, Cell DNA, ArKaos’ Grand VJ, and now Cuelux. Cuelux offers plug-and-play support of MIDI control surfaces to provide you with low-cost ‘hands-on’ fader control using the Ohm64. We already know of a few users out there using Cuelux with their Livid controllers, and they have an active discussion over on their forums if you have any questions. Their software is free to try, so if you own and Ohm64 or block and are looking for a flexible and low-cost lighting solution, check them out!
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June 12, 2010
Thanks to Mike from max4live.info the Block and Ohm64 now have auto mapping in Live by way of the remote scripts. This works with Live 8, and max4live is NOT required to use it. These scripts let you simply select the controller from Live preferences and automatically maps the controls in Live to the hardware controls. It also lets you navigate the focus of the clip bank with the “red box” so you can have virtually unlimited clip launching in one set. This is the first version of the script and we have some big plans for it down the road. If there is something that you want to see it in that we haven’t included, stop on my our forums and let us know.
Download the scripts here.
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