So i’m slowly learning the ins and outs of ableton. Thinking of speeding things up with the new ableton push 2. Waiting for black friday hoping for some good deals.
But now i’m a bit confused just stumbled on this new 27 inch multi touch controller. For you hard core ableton users what do you think of this raven multitouch control. It seems for only 200 dollars more you get a lot more features and being a midi controller as well couldn’t you do the most things on this as what you could achieve with the push 2.
The Raven seems like a really great tool, for mixing. Push on the other hand, IMO is much better for sequencing and arranging. For instance, it’s really easy for me to get a drum pattern banged out using Push and then adding minute differences in velocity, timing, effects, etc. with Push. These things don’t look possible in Raven. But from a mixing perspective, Raven looks much better than Push - that is if you are ok with a touch system. Personally, I’d rather manually rotate a physical dial than use touch. And if you’re looking at the Raven, I also suggest you look at the Softube Console 1.
But to start - to get more productivity out of Live, I’d go Push no doubt.
Before I would make such a big hardware purchase I would ask myself, what kind of producer am I? I mainly produce house and other edm nowadays so a push wouldn’t do much for me. I own an akai advance 49. I bought it because I play chords and melodies myself and draw my drums out. The 8 huge pads are more than enough for the drum playing I do. And I also build my entire track from the arrangement view. I also own a launchpad so I am familiar with sequencing that way, but it’s just not for me.
