Ableton Introduces Push: A Dedicated Controller For Live 9

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Ableton Introduces Push: A Dedicated Controller For Live 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o52kHvA0fSw

Just after the surprise leak of Ableton Live 9’s feature preview video, look what they are preparing in store. Woohoo! A new revamped DAW + awesome integrated, dedicated controller. Give me 10 please.

So what makes Push so interesting compared to millions of other controllers in the market? First it does look well built and seeing what AKAI has made over the years I would assume that this controller would be leaps and bounds in terms of build quality. Good pads, good knobs, good buttons. Those matters the most.

The other thing worth mentioning is that it’s a dedicated controller. Which is usually a different breed than generic MIDI controllers in that they use custom, proprietary protocol to communicate instead of MIDI. With these custom protocol they can have features such two way communications between the software and hardware. NI, for example, does lots of these in their Maschine and Traktor Kontrol lines.

MIDI controllers. They promise lots of things – ease of use, significant workflow improvement. Blah. I still have to turn to the computer most of the time. Like it or not, the versatility of MIDI means that they have to consider the lowest common denominator – if they want to work in just every software, they can’t be as tightly integrated as the dedicated controllers such as these.

Let’s see how Ableton put this slick controller into words:

Push is a new instrument that solves an old problem: how to make a song from scratch

This is a bold claim. Can they live up to it? Let’s wait and see…

Ableton Push | Ableton Live 9

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