Over the past months we've posted several Ableton Live related topics in which the manager technical support for Ableton, Dom Wilms, gave his opinion. In this last episode Dom shares his thoughts on the future of music making, and speaks out about the next big step forward when it comes to music making with technology.

It looks like we're currently in the middle of a very, if not the most important step regarding the future of music making: The whole interface situation history. What is the best way of interaction between a musician/producer and a computer? And there's a lot happening right now on very different levels. For years the majority of MIDI controllers were build totally generic and not aimed at a specific software product. It often looked like this: a keyboard, 8 knobs, 8 buttons - now go and do something clever with it! Does something like that feel intuitive? Does it feel like an instrument you want to spend time with and master it? Not at all, if you ask me.

The first thing that happened next was software companies creating features to better support such generic devices, like the automatic and dynamic mapping of the 8 Macro Controls we did for Device Racks in Live. We took a look at the most popular MIDI controllers and wrote supporting…

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