Ambivalent (Minus) on Ableton Live & Novation Launchpad

Techno producer Ambivalent talks to us at Sonar 2010 and tells us how Ableton Live and the Novation Launchpad have allowed him to be more creative.

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Music

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• novation
• launchpad
• ableton
• live
• sonar
• 2010
• ambivalent
• minus
• techno

[minimalista242]

good... the master is red.

[EvilBunniexxx]

APC40 is way better.

[hismastersvoice88]

@cliffemu Dude, the big deal is to produce your own clips... These kids these days (i mean you)...

[AllKapucino]

he use launchpad, korg nanokontrol and iphone like XY controller

to mach mobile combination

[minimalista242]

@kszolu

I use Ableton to produce and play my songs.

I cut 'em in loops and I launch them in scenes or in separated clips.

So I can play them like the natural songs or combine them together.

[hilato]

@kszolu Yes and no, on your 1 response, sometimes I take a an old bassline patter I did a while back and put in a live set that I am performing or even come up with new bassline while some drum pattern I created, sometimes with my midi keyboard I play some notes and like how its going to come out with an old project I have a mix it up and people do notice that I have an old song remix at the moment on stage with an old song and they ask me thats a new song, I respond no I just did it on the spot

[hilato]

@kszolu well sample sequence of things you produce in midi, I mean I produce all my tracks and never use sample loops like many others do, produce my tracks writing midi notes, and once my track is done then I render 4 bar loops and use that to perform live set, but I still have my original track in midi.

[hilato]

@EvilBunniexxx you definitely got that right the APC 40 is good but lacks one thing its not bus powered, wish they did put bus power, Novation launchpad is a win on that plus if you have an oxygen 8 you could get the benefit of what the APC 40 is. But then again you have to carry two devices. But I definitely Like both the APC 40 and the launch pad.

[cliffemu]

@kszolu I'm just trying to see why this product is so good for him. Look at videos of Hawtin and he actually explains what his controllers do. Seems odd for Ableton to be plugging this video when it really has no content...