Jointly designed by Ableton and Novation, Launchpad places Ableton Live at your fingertips. Whether you’re a DJ, performing musician or studio producer, the ultra portable USB powered Launchpad gives you all you need to truly ‘play’ Live.

With a multi-colour 64-button grid and dedicated scene launch buttons, Launchpad is purpose built for triggering and manipulating clips in Live, it offers a totally new way of controlling Ableton Live’s mixer.

Launchpad’s buttons can be used to sketch out beats with drum racks, and they can be assigned to other functions in Live using Ableton’s ‘Learn’ mode.

Check out this neat demo…

Enjoy!

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Developed with Serato, this palm-sized cue point and looping controller has been designed to fit exactly where you need it: on your turntables, CDJs, mixer or laptop.

Just plug Dicer in, slot it on your turntable/CDJ, and you can instantly set cue points and use them to trigger ‘Hot Cues’.  Then flip Dicer into ‘Auto-Loop’ or ‘Loop Roll’ modes, to trigger loops, or ‘roll’ sections of the track to create climaxes, drops and glitchy breaks.

Each ‘mode’ illuminates Dicer’s pads a different colour, so you can instantly see what mode the pads in, even in dark clubs and venues – red for Hot Cues, green for Loop Roll, and amber for Auto-Loop.

You can also assign different FX to the pads, or trigger samples over the top of your mix, or even browse tracks in your iTunes library!

Serato Scratch Live 2.1 auto maps the Dicer to these functions and provides full LED feedback straight out of the box!

The Dicer is now available through Novation – but why not also try the brand new DJ Mix tools Soundsets launched on Loopmasters, specifically tailored long loops for DJs and remixers ideal for ‘The Novation Dicer’….check them out here.

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We talked to Wes Dooley from AEA ribbon mics to find out about the new ‘Bugatti’ of ribbon mics the R44 and why everyone from 20th Century Fox, Sony Music, Air Studios and Abbey Road are clamoring for the revival of these high-end production models.

We also talked to Neumann’s Andrew Goldberg about their latest studio monitor range including the mid-range 0300 series and the large 0500 monitor bins.

Then we rounded things off with a look at Brent Averill Enterprises latest 1028 preamp, an update to the previous 1073 preamps – which are authentic reproductions of the original vintage Neve 1073 console modules.  BAE’s Mark Loughman takes us through the range.

Enjoy!

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This console of the future from Pioneer has turned the DJ world on its head with its unique interface, intuitive design and performance concepts…

Enjoy!

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Launching in October 2009, the Eigenharp Alpha – is a brand new instrument, the very first of its kind. Designed specifically for live performance, it is simply the most expressive electronic musical instrument ever made. Developed by British innovation company Eigenlabs, it redefines everything we have come to know about electronic instruments.

With the Eigenharp, the musician can play and improvise using a limitless range of sounds with virtuoso skill. The Eigenharp can play and record loops, change key, transpose, alter tempo, program beats, switch and layer sounds, all while the musician is performing live on stage.

LoopTV investigates this brave new world of intuitive performance controllers!

Enjoy!

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Progressive House DJ Andi Durrant of ‘Riley and Durrant’ recently put the new Akai APC40 Ableton controller through its paces.  In this product review he shows us what makes it different to the other controllers on the market and why everyone should have one!

We also see how the new APC40 has helped improve his workflow and build upon his trademark sound out and about on the DJ circuit.

Enjoy!

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We also talked to Ableton over the new remote mapping software applications available for Ableton 8, including using your iPhone to control Ableton!

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