I was just looking on ebay and noticed that this was finally released, it is for sale through juno for GBP 70.99…
I already have the idj and istage from icon and have not liked the implimetation of their devices as there is important features that have been cut from both of them. I have had no experience with their customer support (not through lack of trying) but I am really considering rolling the dice one more time on icon as this has an impressive feature set for not much money…
has anyone had their hands on this device, is it actually going to be a worthwhile controller, or another almost good controller?
Large sensitive touch screen
8 x 16 LED embedded layout on X and Y axes under the touch screen
6 selectable modes for different applications
Piano: The X-axis works as the keyboard’s white key and the Y-axis as 8 steps of expressive values (Factory default
that may change via iMap) with 8 Octave buttons
Pad: The touch screen is divided into 8 lit drum pads with 2 layers (total 16 pads)
Controls: The touch screen is divided into 8 vertical sliders with 2 layers (total 16 faders)
i was wondering what had happened to that controller… as u know i also have the idj but skipped on the istage for a 2nd launchpad but this could be interesting… i figured it was controller-vapour-ware or something…
i presume it has midi led feedback? you said the istage does have midi feedback but causes some issues/lockups i think?
i guess the pots are the same “not awesome” quality on the idj.
i can see “AirLight” in the photos… “AirLightTM 3D effector built in with encoder knob to control different functions” sounds a bit of a gimic
it could be a fun little controller but i’m starting to build up a collection of “fun little controllers” that i don’t use too often atm esp with the k2 and behringer ones around the corner…
you going to pick one up? i am about to buy an ikey as i’ve finally had enough of my nanokey (tho it’s still handy as a small/cheap generic controller). was going to get an lpk25 but like the idea of the two midi configurable touch faders on the ikey and they’re cheap on ebay atm.
i’ll be interested to hear what u think of it. main issue with the idj (apart from quality, but hey its cheap…) is lack of midi led feedback. i think there’s some midi feedback/lockup issue on the istage too.
hoping i’ll be safe with the ikey i just ordered and those two touch faders could be really useful.
i hope they got the firmware right this time on the icreativ…
Will post my findings here, prolly sometime after next weekend.
I had the iCon iControls previously.
It’s larger and better build than the Korg nano series in my opinion, but Korg has better software.
With the Korg software you could manually set the midi off-on range (0-127) which i miss with the iCon software.
i’ve never needed to do that. if you were using midimasher you could use a bunch of superfader() calls to map the inputs to any range of outputs, even invert them if u wanted. plus you can stack as many onto each fader as u needed to create an ON event at 50% or a 2nd stacked fader that starts at 0 when the real fader is at 50% etc…
and it’s cheap… i watched the video on the icon global site earlier and the various pages/layouts didnt seem to match the vids i’d seen before. maybe they’ve changed it quite a bit. until someone gets one in their hands and tries to actually map it to an app i guess we won’t know how good/bad they are… does look cool tho and quite different from anything else out there.
esp with the k2 and behringer ones around the corner…