Just bought a VCM-600!!

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Just bought a VCM-600!!

Hullo all!

i just thought i would share my excitement in buying a VCM-600!

woo yea

now i have the fun task of mapping it to ze abletron
after i upgrade to 8 as the LE version of 7 it comes with is far to limiting

oh yea and warping gigs and gigs of music :rage:

but oh well it will be fun and im sure ill learn alot too

oh yea and a pic for good measure :smiley:

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That looks sick :stuck_out_tongue: now to replace it all with arcade buttons and make it black and… hehe nah looks pretty cool the way it is.

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jealous :stuck_out_tongue: those things look like a billion hours of fun (after the days/months of preparing :stuck_out_tongue:)

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haha its pretty tempting actually. but it is already a sexy piece of kit.
a custom cover plate once i map it all out would be nice though

mmm yes. the only part im NOT looking forward too. ill just have to bring out the bizzle and hack out :stuck_out_tongue:

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I use ableton for production and funky sounds and shit, and often running live with traktor on separate macs, its wicked, and I should really get a VCM! But i struggle to see how you could do a whole gig with live, without being fairly restricted in your music choice? :confused:

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I’m not, just dropped my review version of at the post office this week. Gotta tell ya, I’m not that sorry to see it go.

I thought that it was good, but too much cash to provide a proper bang for buck.

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srsly? it looks perfect for ableton. what’s the deal?

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Well, if you ask me, the pricing for starters.

I would have expected software to edit and save presets on the MIDI controller.
Than you have the USB cable, which for me is totally not appropriate.

For a price of 850 euros I would have expected to be able to use the VCM600 properly with other sound apps (Traktor amongst others). But no avail.

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I have heard others use the VCM - 600 with traktor no problem. I mean its midi after all so it should be able to be mapped to any program that receives midi theoretically. But hey what do I know, im a noob to all of this.

And BTW congrats on this piece of gear bro, I envy you. Its on my wish list of toys.

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MIDI mapping is not the issue. It’s more that Ableton returns values to the LEDs as a standard, in TP none of that seems to happen.

Also just one endless rotary pisses the hell out of me. Agreed you could fix that with modifiers, but that’s not the way to go for me.
Also agreed that the feel of the control is wickedly solid. But I would have expected more from that price tag.

For me the overall feel I had about the controller, was a bit of a downer.

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ahh im sorry to hear that tekki, but each to their own i guess :slight_smile:

not all controllers can be a BCR :stuck_out_tongue:

so after a weekend of mapping and figuring stuff out iv nearly got it were i want it, the only major thing left to work out is getting some live looping happening, which imo is the only weak point in ableton. but hey, there will be a work around and it will be all good :smiley:

oh yea, and warp all my tracks :disappointed:

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I know how you feel… haha i spent the whole weekend mapping my cdj400’s and the trigger finger to traktor :stuck_out_tongue: was good fun but def takes time!

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ghahaha

Well, if all controllers were as great as the BCR, I would no longer have the BCR. :wink: