March 21, 2011
Our friends over at Liine, makers of touch apps for Ableton Live, just released their latest app Kapture Pad. Kapture Pad extends Ableton Live by allowing you to take snapshots of all mixer and device parameters in your set and recall them instantly. The inclusion of snapshot morphing makes Kapture Pad not only an indispensable live performance utility but also a mindbending sound design tool.
How can it be used with Code?
- Be more daring: In the Global Snapshots video you can how Kapture Pad can allow you to be bolder in your live performance with Code. “Perfect settings” of devices controlled by Code can be Kaptured. You can then let loose with Code and try things that you normally wouldn’t risk in a show – knowing that one tap on Kapture Pad is all it takes to jump right to that perfect groove. Of course, Code will track these parameter jumps perfectly! Video example.
- Performance and sound design: Use Code and Kapture Pad in partnership and get acquainted with morphing. Jam with Code and Kapture a killer sound in one corner of Kapture Pad’s Morph Pad. Twist Code’s encoders into 3 more wildly different sounds, Kapturing each in one of the other corners. Then discover new sounds by morphing smoothly between them with Kapture Pad. Video example.
- For other use cases see liine.net
Liine are a group of people passionate about music and technology. They are responsible for creating professional Ableton Live controllers for iPad and iPhone such as Griid Pro and Kapture Pad (as well as the Remiix series of interactive records). Liine are passionate about the possibilities offered by touch technology, but also have a deep understanding of why tactile, hardware control is of utmost importance to many musicians. They aim to develop touch tools which interact with and complement hardware solutions. Kapture Pad and Code is a great example.
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December 9, 2010
Over the past year we’ve been collecting footage from artists and performers doing some amazing things with our controllers. From Ableton Live to Resolume, we have seen scripts, templates, and uses we never imagined, but definitely encouraged. Much of the footage in this video was filmed in Austin, TX “The Live Music Capital of the World”, which is also our home base. This video features demos and examples from Ableton Live, Renoise, Reason, Record, Max/MSP, Serato, Traktor, Max for Live, Resolume, VDMX, Luminair for iPad, Culex, and many more. Some of the artists in this video are Chili, Pailo, AmpLive, Heyoka, Elliot Lipp, Mike Abb, G King, Signal Path, Naik, Hitori Tori, and more. Special thanks to Mike Abb and Abboriginal productions for all his hard work shooting and collecting many of these videos.
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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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October 8, 2009
The Native Kontrol Presets are now available for the Ohm64.
nativeKONTROL omComponent Series is a collection of Presets for Livid Instruments Ohm64 that transform the Ohm into an advanced control surface for Ableton Live.
These presets are available at Nativekontrol.com
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June 2, 2009
So when we first made the Ohm64 mini prototype in December Blake made a nice little Ableton Project to illustrate using the Ohm with Ableton. Here is a video showing a newer version of that project with Live and the Ohm64. This shows how you can use the grid to interact with your performance. Many more Live examples to come.
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