Now, to get one incredibly obvious thing out of the way first. More information, including a video tour of Push: Jump to 28:00 to start the Ableton Push section. Push includes Ableton Live 9 Intro and works with any edition of Ableton Live 9 (Intro, Standard, Suite).īundle upgrade discounts will be available for owners of previous versions of Live. Push will be available in the first quarter of 2013 for USD 599 / EUR 499. Push cover: An optional steel cover doubles as a sturdy, angled stand for performance.(Push is USB-powered, the brightness of the display and LEDs can be increased by using the included power supply). Backside connections are a USB port, power adaptor input and two assignable footswitch inputs. Fits inside a backpack alongside a laptop: Push is 370 mm / 14.57 inches wide, 293 mm / 11.54 inches deep and is 46 mm / 1.81 inches in height (including encoders) and weighs 2990g / 6.59 pounds.The 11 touch-sensitive encoders and LCD display adapt dynamically to control and show active parameters. Designed by Ableton, built by Akai Professional: Utilizing Akai Pro’s long-standing expertise in the field of pad controllers, Push features 64 pressure and velocity-sensitive RGB (multi-colored) pads with an adaptive layout and a touch strip with 24 LEDs for pitch bending or navigating through a Drum Rack.All the included instruments, effects and sounds, as well as your own libraries, are ready to be played, tweaked, and personalized. Includes Ableton Live 9: Push includes Ableton Live 9 Intro and works with any edition of Ableton Live 9 (Intro, Standard, Suite).Everything created with Push is laid out in Ableton Live on your computer – ready for fine-tuning, arrangement and export. Move smoothly from creation to arrangement: Push offers both the inspiring instrument to start creating music, and the full-featured software to finish off a track.Using just a few buttons to trigger clips, overdub notes, move between song materials and variations lets Ableton Live itself become an intuitively playable instrument. Improvise with song structure: Push expands the scope of creation with its unique workflow.This allows you to play in every key using the same finger patterns, move between keys at the touch of a button, and explore new harmonies and phrases. Play melodies and chords in a new way: Push “folds” a keyboard’s worth of notes into its 64 pads, with different pad colors showing the key center and other notes in the key.The 11 touch-sensitive endless encoders can control device parameters, adjust velocity, nudge timing and more. Play and sequence beats: Push’s 64 velocity- and pressure-sensitive multi-color pads can be used to play, step sequence, and navigate within rhythm patterns – all at the same time.High-quality, dynamic pads, buttons, encoders and display combined with an innovative workflow allow you to play and compose musical ideas without the need to look at or touch your computer, and more importantly, without interrupting the musical flow. Push provides direct, hands-on control of melody and harmony, beats, sounds and structure, powered by Ableton Live running on your computer. But first the official words: Push Ableton presents a new hardware instrument designed to solve an old problem:how to make a song from scratch. It’s still an Akai made unit, but designed by Ableton specifically to make Live 9 easier to use. And it’s everything you’d expect it to be. Granted, they’ve had loose partnerships with Akai via the APC range, and Novation with the Launchpad, but now the perfectly named Push is here. Like Native Instruments before it, the day had to come when Ableton made their own hardware.
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