Novation SL / Automap

[Tony Scharf]

Thanks for the input guys.  The automap stuff looks tempting, but
every real world opinion I have gotten on it says its not all its
cracked up to be.

I am going with a simple (and much less expensive) emu xboard instead.  Thanks!

Tony

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Romain / rXg <xtechcode at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tony,
> as Gert mentioned; we have together Novation products but  I got the  SL 37
> Mk I( more keys than the SL 25 and 2 screens instead of one for the MK II
>  :P) ...
> Till now for my own point of view   Novation and Automap  work better for
> Ableton than for Logic ... I don t know about Cubase and Sonar etc .
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> I m still using  automap 2.2 , I was quite exited about this feature when it
> came out  but in real life,  it wasn t  what I expected, not really
> interactive  specially in Logic ( as Gert said ) , this why I didn t update
> to the third  version( plus I needed to pay for the upgrade !!!! ) ,and
> also upgrade to  Logic 9 to get what It supposed to do at the first place
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> Now if you have already  Ableton 8 or Logic 9, Novation claims it work
> perfectly but I doubt about it ( i m a paranoid dude ) ...
> Check around different Music Forums, cause  I read that people getting
> interference problems with cheap sound card as M- audio, for drivers  etc
> ... But I think you are using with Motu devices right  ?
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> All in all Novation is quite ok product for the price but about the software
> thingy , don t expect at 100%  what they are claiming , cause you could be a
> bit disappointed, now if it s working as they say it will serves you better
> than your Nano key for sure :)
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at chello.nl>
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>> Tony Scharf schreef:
>> > So, my nanoKey already broke.  cheap little crap...
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>> > Anyone using any of the Novation keyboard controllers?
>> > I am particularly looking at the SL MkII with the automap stuff.
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>> I think Romain and me. I have the small remote 25sl compact. Nice
>> machine, although I must say I don't make so much use of the control
>> functions as I thought I would. Automap is nice, especially since you
>> can give the parameters their own knob (although I haven't had time to
>> do that - Romain mentioned it). Not being able to do that really sucked,
>> since you had to go through loads of params to find Filter cutoff and
>> Envelopes for example...
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>> :-)
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