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AKAI PRO APC40

Wed, June 03, 2009

Because of Akai Pro's leadership position in great-feeling controllers Ableton choose Akai Professional as its partner in developing the ultimate Live Controller. The APC40 talks directly to Ableton Live and Live talks directly to the APC40. This bidirectional communication makes the APC40 an advanced controller in that it can receive feedback from the software and display it on its clip matrix of 40 triggers and on LED rings surrounding each knob. Because Akai Professional and Ableton designed the APC40 specifically for Ableton Live, you don’t need to map its controls to talk to the software. Just connect your laptop to the APC40 via USB and you're ready to make magic. The APC40 is plug and play, so you don't need to install drivers.   Akai Pro

The APC40 has two banks of eight knobs. The first set controls Global parameters while the second bank of eight knobs is dynamically reassigned to the Track you select. The eight Global knobs can access four banks of controls; the eight Track knobs control nine different track parameters each. This gives you a massive total of 72 controllers that are dynamically reassigned each time you switch tracks.