Ableton Push MIDI Controller - Nearly New

Full Description

Beatmaking Capabilities

Ableton's Push has 64 velocity sensitive pads that give you countless ways of producing beats. Adjust sounds and kits while you play with eight touch-sensitive endless encoders. Hold a pad to repeat notes in time with your track while adjusting swing or the repeat divisions in real time. Step sequence beats directly using the pads for precise control. Select any step and tweak timing, velocity, and parameter values individually for each cell and see velocity and accents for each step shown on the Push's pads. Plus, select which bar of your loop you want to sequence or adjust the length of the loop. Play, step sequence and adjust your loop all at the same time!

New Ways to Play

Push's note entry layout can bring new inspiration when creating music, providing a new way to play both notes and chords. Push's 64 pads provide a keyboard's worth of notes when playing instruments. You can select a key and scale and the pads will show you the key centre, other notes in that key and notes you've already recorded. Other notes are unlit - or can be hidden altogether for purely diatonic playing. You can easily span large intervals and play melody and chord patterns using the same fingerings in every key. Add colour using Push's touch slider for pitch bend.

Push's step sequencer can be used with melodies or harmonies and allows you to easily edit or delete notes in order to fix mistakes or create variations. You can nudge single notes or chords for precise timing changes or adjust note length and velocity. Hold a step while adjusting an encoder to record a parameter's value for only that step and create rhythmic, quantized parameter changes that are locked to specific notes in your loop.

Ableton Live - Packed With Sounds

Ableton Live runs on your Mac or PC and provides multitrack recording, instruments, effects, and everything else you need to make music. Ableton Push comes with Live 9 Intro software which includes 3 instruments and over 700 sounds to get you started. For some people this is all they ever need, but the software can always be upgraded at a later date if you find yourself wanting more. Live 9 gives you a full suite of instruments, sounds and effects and your fingertips. All of the sounds are ready to be played, tweaked and personalised with the power of the Push controller's touch sensitive encoders and visual display.

If you're already familiar with Live, Push complements what you already know filling your set with clips and scenes as you create organically with Push. Push is also the ultimate performance controller with pads that can be used as a clip launching grid.

Record, Improvise, Play

Ableton Push is the perfect way to capture all your musical ideas and experiment with variations and song structure. The unique recording workflow makes it easy to capture everything, then overdub, create variations or edit quickly using only a few buttons. Then switch to another mode and try them out in even more combinations.

For detailed arranging, editing and exporting switch from Push to your computer to find your music already laid out in the included Ableton Live. Push gives you the best of both worlds - hands on creativity followed by in depth fine tuning.

Akai Professional Hardware

The Push has been engineered by experienced controller makes, Akai Professional. It has been designed to offer extreme sensitivity for nuanced playing and a deep, solid feel for beatmaking. The 64 pads are velocity and pressure sensitive, multicoloured RGB light-up. The layout adapts to match the track you have selected. The touchstrip has 24 LEDs for pitch bend and navigating through drum racks. There's also 11 touch sensitive endless encoders and a four line LCD display that adapts to show the important parameters you're working on. This laptop sized controller also has connections for USB, footswitches and additional power.

Features/Specifications

Power

• The Push controller gets power from the USB port. If you would like to increase the brightness of the display and LEDs, use the included power supply.

Connections

• USB port
• Power adapter input
• Two assignable footswitch inputs

Pads

• 64 velocity and pressure-sensitive pads
• RGB backlighting
• Designed by Akai Professional

Encoders

• 11 touch-sensitive encoders

Display

• Four line LCD alphanumeric display

Touchstrip

• 12 cm touch strip for pitch bend/scrolling
• 24 LEDs for navigation

Dimensions

• Width: 370mm (14.57 inches)
• Depth: 293mm (11.54 inches)
• Height (body): 26mm (1.02 inches)
• Height (body + encoders): 46mm (1.81 inches)
• Weight: 2990g (6.6 pounds)

Included:

• Push Controller
• Ableton Live Intro
• Universal Power Supply: 100-240VAC, 50/60Hz with interchangeable heads (Type A, C, G for North/Central America & Japan, Europe and UK).
• USB Cable
• Quick Start Guide