There’s 8 banks of encoders that link the Track and Device encoders, the default functionality whereby the device encoders automap to the device in focus is still available as you can switch in and out of the Isotonik mapping…
You can set min and max ranges and reset values along with controlling how the APC40 encoder lights up per parameter…
We’ll be updating a few threads around the forum but mainly at our facebook page…
A brief video of how the device can be re-configured to your hearts content giving 8 banks of 16 encoders that can be instantly switched between along with the APC40’s default behaviour remaining available as well…
Adressed some problems with glitchiness but still some fine tuning to do…
The device now has the control surface locked to it so you don’t lose focus on what you want your encoders to control and in addition to your 8 configurable banks you can switch back to focusing on the first device in the track selected with the device encoders…
We’ve completed the Effects bank control and lighting hub which has improved the lighting response time no end, and we’ve worked out a way to make the looping functionality extend across the 8 tracks that now make up the template…
Ok so this always bugged me, when i kill the Bass on a track it made it sound slightly out with the rest of the tracks playing, now with a turntable i’d have to slow the platter slightly… With Ableton to do the same you’ve got to drop the Global Quantize to none, focus on the clip and then midi map the nudge buttons pressing them repeatedly to get it sounding right…
Not anymore!!
Press and hold the metronome button and use the Activator button to nudge a track forwards, you set by how much, repeatedly whilst the Activator is pressed, you set the rate at which it gets nudged… The Arm button does the opposite and pulls the clip backwards…
Feels a lot more like Djing with this level of control at my fingertips…
So thats the Clip Track Button, that you can use to preview waveforms, the Rec Quantize Button, that can change the Global Launch Quantization and now the Metronome button with new functionality… What’s next??
And now for the Mixed in Key DJ’s we’ve implemented the ability to change the pitch of a clip using the APC40, you can set the increments and how quickly the pitch changes when the buttons are held down as well as revert the clip to the original pitch with one press…
And the final (for now) clip manipulation feature, we’ve added the ability to make playing clips jump backwards or forwards by a quantized beat at a time, perfect for correcting those triggering mistakes…
That’s not a bad idea, i could make one scene that is effectively a clip manipulation scene giving two rows to nudge forwards and back, two rows to jump by beat forwards and back… three rows to pitch up down and reset…
Leaves the final row at the bottom which to me would make sense if they were set to control the cue for the track so you can listen to your changes from one page…
Yay, a very long day but the looping is now complete…
When switching into looping mode half of the Launch grid still launches clips the other half controls the looping of those clips, if you move the red rectangle the looping functionality follows so you now have full looping control over every track in your template…
Features…
Serato/Traktor like set quantized to the bar or beat loops of 1,2 or 4 bars in length…
Halve or Double loops by moving the start or end points (choosable from the APC40)
Move Loops forwards or backwards by a bar at a time or by their length
Reduce a set loop in size by the smallest division Ableton will allow using the fader…
Switch loops on and off and get visual feedback of where the playhead is in relation to the loop brace…
In addition we’ve upgrade the feature whereby a playing clip in a track will make the Clip Stop button light, it will also now make the Clip Stop button flash when the playhead is within the loop brace and loop is set to on…
I’m off to BPM now to play with all sorts of shiny things and do some networking!
Added back in the stepped beat repeat effect, Gater, Reverse and Brake…
Got a scene of assignable buttons to write where you can…
assign a button to any parameter in live
Set its colour for on and off
Set the pressed and released value
Set the time it takes to move between values
Decide whether the button acts as a toggle or momentary…
Includes the faders…
Really see this one as being totally user configurable but i’ll be mapping it to some stuff i think will be useful…
After that i’m stuck, got crossfader assignment control to add to the Detail View button and already added the functionality where you can revert back to the original APC40 functionality for the Device Control encoders and move between devices on a track, you can access the first 16 macros…
Got two scenes left with half of the APC40 to give functionality to in each…
This is for scene 3… One of these for each of the buttons, and the four faders… set the on and off value for when a button is pressed, the time in milliseconds it takes to travel in between them (you might want a slow transition to on and a sharp cut to off) and the lighting of the buttons within the clip launch grid…
Mapping is simply click on a parameter in live and then click on a button in the window, this is then saved with your set…
You can even select how the APC40 behave on a momentary or toggle basis, something not currently possible due to there not being a midi editor…
We’re proud to announce the release of Isotonik 8!
Subscribers can download a copy either by using the payloadz download link they received upon subscribing or through the sugarsync shared folder…
Please take the time to read the manual first, as a Livepack the template install directly into your library so there is minimal set up but a number of factors are different to that of Isotonik 7, all of which are explained in the manual…
I’d personally like to thank the beta testers especially Charles Brebant, Marek Pleskac, Daniel Wischmann and Paul Montgomery who have been invaluable in developing the device to the standard it is today…
Remember please download the manual first, we’ll be recording a video over the next week which will be uploaded to our new website, we thought you’d like to have a play first…
