The Art of Live PA.

[SlavikSvensk]

i'd agree with that. the problem is that it also makes it easy for people to be lazy. so if someone has lazy-man tendencies, they will likely come out in their laptop PA.

some people mistake this as the technology requiring people to be lazy. but i don't think there's any reason a laptop PA has to be lazy at all. in fact, it could potentially be much more exciting than a hardware PA because you can do so much more with ableton. was looking at that new akai controller and you can basically do everything you could with an MPC, in exactly the same way, if you like. sort of explodes the idea that the gear makes the PA.

[DannyBlack]

I saw speedy j and liebing do a live set in waterford a few years back. It was by far the shittest thing i ever witnessed. they were clearly taking the piss- using the same (F1 car whizzing past) sample over every track- I mean the same loop placed over tracks. it was mind numbing. I actually walked out early.

[The_Laughing_Man]

i'd agree with that. the problem is that it also makes it easy for people to be lazy. so if someone has lazy-man tendencies, they will likely come out in their laptop PA.

some people mistake this as the technology requiring people to be lazy. but i don't think there's any reason a laptop PA has to be lazy at all. in fact, it could potentially be much more exciting than a hardware PA because you can do so much more with ableton. was looking at that new akai controller and you can basically do everything you could with an MPC, in exactly the same way, if you like. sort of explodes the idea that the gear makes the PA.

The akai apc40 is waaaaay beyond an mpc in terms of what you can do, and not really very similar at all. The Novation Launchpad, which is the other ableton dedicated processor, has more functionality that has similarities to the old mpc stuff.
The akai is more about taking what you see on an ableton screen and making it physical.
It really is a step forwards.
Personally the only part of it that I want is the clip launch grid as I have a controller with nicer faders so I`ll be getting the launchpad to integrate into my pa`s.