Depone wrote:marshy wrote:I've heard of problems with the Trigger Finger and Logic, may be worth looking into Depone.
Dependant on how often you use pads, may be worth getting a controller keyboard with them. For drums i normally drag n drop audio clips for kicks and snares, only use pads for the hats and cymbals. Axiom 49 does the job perfectly for when i do need pads.
Thing is i already have a nice edirol PCR keyboard with loads of knobs etc.. all i want is literally some pads to sketch out ideas on. Maybe the LPD is the answer as im not looking for a full scale 24 pad unit. I also love akai's build quality, and get to use my mates MPC2000 a bit when hes in.
I would have said if you don't already have enough knobs and sliders, probably go with the MPD.
I've had a padkontrol for a while and I love it. Not got a massive amount of knobs (although it's relatively easy to re-assign them on the fly), but I've got knobs elsewhere, and the XY pad is something a bit different. Pads feel great, very firm and sensitive, and their feel doesn't change when you hit them right on the edge. If you are going to use them for a live show, they have very very solid programming capability which is heaps useful. You've got 16 available 'scenes' to flick through, and within each scene every button and knob can be individually assigned to channels 1-16, notes or CC's, AND port A or B. For example; in my live setup I've got the standard mapping for lives drum racks on two scenes, one port A one port B; one scene controls my re-wired reason combinators, including knobs and buttons; I also have a few scenes that are set out as global patch changes, where each pad enables simultaneously launch all the effects/instruments I typically need in ableton for a certain track/passage (basically it is assigned to a certain position on all the chain selector in my effect and instrument tracks that correspond to that track). Can't remember what other scene do off the top of my head, but it's pretty limitless.
Even if you weren't doing a live show I'm sure all the pre-loaded scenes would come in handy for studio - there are scenes for battery, various reason devices, a number of VSTs and DAWs etc.
I'm sure the MPD might have some similar mapping functions, but that's my experience with the korg anyway.
