Congrats. That’s a fine midi controller.
If you have an iPad and LoopyPro try it with the APC. A lot of UI in LoopyPro automagically maps to the APC
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Those discontinued AKAI APC 40 mk2 are hard to find second hand in Europe.
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Is not discontinued the apc40 mk2. There’s not an mk3 version and I find it new on the stores.
Edited, with the launch of the apc64 it seems different and the prices goes crazy on the stores who have rests of stocks
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I have a Korg Nanokontrol2, which is very similar, apart from the lack of pads. I use it with my Push 2, and dig it for the same reasons.
Another great companion controller is the Midi Fighter Twister. There’s a script that males it work really nicely with Ableton (and probably the Push 3 too). The top two rows (8 knobs total) control the currently-selected track (sends, record arm, select devices, enable/disable device/level/pan), and lets you switch tracks.
The bottom 8 knobs map to Ableton’s blue-hand controls, which sounds redundant with the Push, but is not. Especially as it can auto-map to rack macros.
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331€ b stock is very good price
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I have the twister but you can’t load the script on the standalone to work like this unfortunately
I tried this. It was very good for Ableton, better than my LPP3 but awful for standalone. If it had better stand alone sequencing I would have kept it for using with my Modular…maybe they will update it a “lot”!
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I received the Faderfox pc12 today to add to push3. This Friday a bag of colored pods arrive for color coding :). Works great so far
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That’s a shame. Can you load the script when it’s connected to Ableton on the computer?
It will not work
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I have a PC12 too, love it. Just wondering, where did you order the coloured pots from? Do they match the black ones?
Djtechtools. Chromacaps super, 0 degrees are the ones faderfox recommended to me. Apparently a fraction bigger. So I also ordered black knobs just in case 
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Thanks, good to know. I’d love to see what yours looks like once you’ve kitted it out.
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Will post a photo
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I hope the APC40 mk2 is just back ordered everywhere or there is an mk3 version coming out soon. It kind of makes sense for Akai to release a new one since they just released the APC 64. I have a Midi Fighter Twister and Launchpad X, so I’m not desperate for one, but I do think the APC 40 fills a very useful niche.
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Yes, the apc64 is very big and heavy, the mk2 is great size and weight
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They should be quite common since there are so many on the market was my assumption.
In Berlin it was quite easy to get one second hand but I don’t know how many get sold on an EU level.
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How stable is the midi clock on P3S? Anyone done any measurement of jitter? I see they have added latency offset now.
I assume that, similar to Ableton desktop, it does not send clock when stopped (which is a bit of a pain for things that track midi clock ticks even whilst stopped)?
This did work, got pretty close. Thanks!
A new question:
I just connected my Push 3 to the ADAT input and output I didn’t use on my Digiface USB and now I can route any audio of any other ADAT expander to my Push, which is really easy and flexible!
However, I like to set the hardware latency inside the External Instrument plugin, so it is automatically compensated for. This doesn’t seem to work in standalone mode… I can change the hardware latency, but it seems to have no effect? At least, not in the recording I did in another audio track… Any ideas why this is? Is this something Ableton still has to fix?
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Ok I found out it does work now, but for some reason it didn’t when I only had 1 track with the external instrument and one audio track to record that 1st track…
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