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RheyneLooper – Free live looping template for Ableton and Lemur

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The RheyneLooper looks like a pretty handy tool for those who make music on the fly and it really expands on the idea of touch screen controllerism.

Jon Barbieri, a.k.a. Rheyne, is a keyboard player and controllerist based in New Jersey. I’ve written about him before, but since then there have been quite a few changes to both our approaches to music. He creates the most awesome chill-out sounds on the fly and loves to share videos that feature this. With close to 60 videos on his YouTube channel, there’s plenty to watch.

His Ableton and Lemur RheyneLooper template complements both his composition and his performance styles, and he’s even included one of the Massive patches that defines his unique sound.

As a side note, I’m glad that the Lemur App is taking a bit of a foothold. There were many broken hearts the day Jazzmutant discontinued the hardware Lemur.

VCI-400 Nonagon performance template now available

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Custom Nonagon mappings for the new Vestax VCI-400.

It’s been a little more than two months since we posted demo videos of my Ableton Live / Max for Live template for the Vestax VCI-400. The videos were picked up by the folks at Vestax headquarters, who graciously invited me to last month’s NAMM show in Anaheim, Calif. to give in-person controller demos at their booth. Now, after a few rounds of tweaks, some new additions and some documentation, the template and all of its associated Max for Live patches and Live preset racks are available to download.

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Unique glitch machine FxGrid for Launchpad and Ableton Live

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Yeuda Ben-atar, a.k.a. Side Brain, is a controllerist and beat maker based in Los Angeles. His unusual approach to performance includes using a Dreamcast arcade controller for finger drumming which won him a custom, one-of-a-kind Launchpad from Novation.

He has used that Launchpad to create a unique glitch machine named the FxGrid, which exclusively uses native Ableton Live Suite devices, with no Max4Live or other bells and whistles. It’s easy to implement and run, and available here.

Lights, buttons, Isotonik delivers functionality

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It comes as no surprise that Max for Live has opened a world of possibilities for controllerists. Shortly after it was released, I recall seeing the Isotonik device, built by Darren Cowley for use with the Akai APC40, floating around the internet.

“[Isotonik solves] a number of the frustrations we had when DJing live with Ableton.” Cowley said, “The feature list runs to a couple of sides of paper, but includes on the fly looping, follow actions at clip end, 8 banks of user configurable encoders.” According to Cowley, Isotonik, now in version eight, is the number one downloaded device on maxforlive.com.
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