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I realise how much of my disconnect with Push was down to the pads – they weren’t good enough.Īfter my pad playability issues, the inability to read the text on the buttons was another of my niggles with Push 1 – but happily another obstacle has been removed. These pads are soft and responsive, you can play them with a lighter touch than previously, and suddenly the idea of using Push as a grid-based keyboard device is more realistic it no longer feels as if you’re trying to squeeze a keyboard out of what are basically drum pads. While you’re digging the display, you’ll also start thinking “hmm, these pads are not the old pads”, and you’ll be right. In Use Browsing and previewing content (now including AU and VST plug-ins) with Push is a more complete experience now – a simple improvement in legibility works wonders, although using knobs to browse presets is still arguably quicker when you can grab your computer mouse and type cmd-f and tear through your content in a much faster way – that’s just the kind of thing computers are better at, although on a more positive navigation note, it’s excellent that Push can now unfold group tracks. The next ‘ooh’ comes when you launch some clips or play some notes and watch the new level meters… this is a huge step forward in usability, and another reduction in the time you spend looking at your computer screen. This works well for me – I’m a colour-coding fascist, and this taps right into my obsessive need for colour-coordinated order. There’s a slight lag when loading sets, then Push is right there with track names and colours – and those track colours are reflected in text and pad colours as you change from one track to another. This won’t take long, and coincidentally makes a good introduction to the spanky new display, with crisp white-on-black text and the Push logo. On Push 2, let’s just say mains power is even less optional! It was technically ‘optional’ on the original Push, but necessary if you wanted brighter pads. One trade-off against this ‘flat and light’ business is that, more than ever, Push requires mains power. I mentioned is definitely noticeable, especially when you jam it in your backpack. Physically, the new Push is more or less the same, with only a few millimetres’ difference in the dimensions.
#Ableton live push registration
Overview The modest brown box contains Push 2, a rather chunky-in-a-good-way USB cable, mains power supply and registration info so you can register your Push and claim your free download of Live Intro. So, let’s see if Push 2 is going to win me over. Not everybody wants pads, and it’d be a fabulous addition to a studio or a keyboard setup ergonomically, having to reach over the pads to get to the encoders and see the displays isn’t ideal – an angled display would make this far more usable for me. Surprisingly, Push is now an Ableton-only project Akai is nowhere to be seen, and it’s not just the logos that have changed, with a new casing that comes in nearly half a pound lighter, refined control layout, deeper integration with Live, new improved pads and – sexiest of them all – a new full-colour display.Īs for the pads, well, we’ll come to those… I’ve always wished Ableton would do a keyboard version of Push, or a padless model with the display and all of the controls but without the pads – like Novation’s Remote Zero SL, which is one of the all-time great controllers. Let’s dig for clues in all that new stuff, beginning with Push, which is clearly the sexiest part of the announcement, and Ableton’s biggest news since the launch of the original Push itself.
#Ableton live push update
Most of us would’ve expected a Push hardware update to coincide with the release of Live 10 obviously, Ableton had its own ideas! Either this means that Live 10 will be a monster update of unimaginable proportions, or else Ableton is more interested in hardware than software these days. Well, this must be one of the most interesting software point update events ever, as Ableton introduces Live 9.5, with a generous supply of new features, the revamped Push 2 controller, the Link syncing tool, and a bunch of new Max For Live instruments.