a dedicated hardware controller for Liveslice!!

[Meloday]

sorry to get your hopes up but......wouldn't that be nice!!

I mean, it's such an instrument in it's own right...to have a dedicated hardware unit to harness it's power would be a god-send.

hey ohm, you have any hardware designing skills?

Maybe you should approach Doepfer or Faderfox

one can dream anway.......

[musikmachine]

sorry to get your hopes up but......wouldn't that be nice!!

Yes it would

[Meloday]

i think no one is responding because my subject line was viciously misleading.....i know it was cruel...sorry

[thelizard]

I just don't really see how a hardware unit would help the workflow...

Most of the operation consists of dragging-and-dropping slices, and then selecting each slice to modify individual parameters. I immediately think of Reason... you can select slices on Dr. Rex either by clicking or turning a knob... and turning a knob is a straight-up p.i.t.a.

Did you have any ideas though for a useful module?

[musikmachine]

TBH i've hardly used liveslice.How do you liveslicers use it?

[Meloday]

i'm thinking of something with lots of triggers and switches. rows of buttons. so when you dropped a sample onto a track in liveslice, it would automatically slice and map itself across one row of pads on the controller. repeat.

you could have leds scrolling across the button-highlighting which slice/hit is being triggered- at your host's tempo.

maybe think of it as a hardware midi sequencer/arranger for liveslice. so, when a pad is lit, and the sequencer scrolls across it, it triggers that slice. you could control the forward/backward/ping pong of each row independently. maybe have fourth/half/double/quad tempo adjust buttons for each row. be able to choose if a row functions in loop mode (where it runs through the sliced sample in time with the sequencer), or a 'hit' mode (where you could bang out live hits while the other rows are looping).

a row of switches dedicated to switching banks on the fly. buttons for mutes/solo/randomize--for every assignable function for liveslice!

i'm using the 40h right now to control liveslice. it's brilliant. the only thing- (8x8)64 pads arent enough. actually, the ultimate liveslice hardware controller will be coming out hopefully within the year. so i suppose wishes do come true! monome is coming out with a 16x16 unit. it looks unbelievable. though, i suppose it depends on how you work. but for live situations

check the 16x16 unit:



i'd still throw money down for a dedicated and streamlined controller for liveslice. you could avoid having to perform tedious midi mapping. you could run liveslice in a standalone mode. i mean, it's called liveslice not mouse slice!

[musikmachine]

The monome looks interesting.Where do you get them?I read that the developer is not in it for the money.So how much are they?

Have you seen the videos using the Wiimote as a midi controller youtube?Amazing!Check them out if you haven't.Apparently there're instructions online to build your own.From what i've seen it could make the mouse history(in my house anyway).

[DAAHOOD]

a pc keyboard (with trollo)+ midi keyboard (multi channel) + BCF2000 (multichannel) is quite a good controller ensemble too.

[musikmachine]

Found the info on their site.It's a bit more than i expected it to be but it's sexy as hell!Thats going on the shortlist

DAAHOOD seems a bit o/k for liveslice or are you talking in general?I need a drum pad.After seeing some of the wiimote videos though...you can control/trigger/manipulate potentially anything on your pc from what i've seen.All from a single device: