I think it would be cool if Push 3 was capable of being piece-wise, and rearrangable in addition to being expandable. More knob sections, more pads, replace the pads with an MPE keyboard. Put the knobs in front of the computer with the pads over to the side.
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This would honestly be great. Buy the pieces you need, leave out the ones you donât. Very Roll like, haha. If Ableton made a standalone box that could just hold 2 drum racks and 3 instruments with sequencing and no FX Iâd buy it. Itâd be like a Push Live; Jam now, arrange and finish later!
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Just saw on their Twitter page that they were looking for hardware designer at the beginning of August, so not sure if Push 3 is coming this year. Or maybe they just want to do more devices and make them modular.
Indeed, saw the same post. I reckon maybe next year?
Yes. Or this could also mean they want to expand their line in the next years with smaller devices. And maybe theyâll announce Push 3 at Loop 2018. This will depend on what they plan to add in Ableton 10.1
MPE is certainly the next thing to be added this year I guess. This alone could justify a new device if they donât want to let the market entirely to ROLI (in the accessible price range)
Or I could imagine that they want to do a smaller device. Something between a Roli Blocks and Push.
Plus, Los Angeles is the perfect place to announce this.
Per note automation would be nice, guess that would be pretty much a given with mpe integration
the form of a ukelele would be âŚ
Ableton have always stated only one hardware device and Push is it. There wont be a Push3 for a while yet, still much more life in Push2 yet.
Where did they state this ? I donât see why they wouldnât want to do more devices. Push isnât even that portable anymore compared to Roli, Maschine and the MPC Live. I wouldnât be surprised if theyâd start doing modular devices.
Yes Push 2 has still more life. Iâm just saying that theyâre maybe wanting to jump off the MPE hype before people lean towards Roli or other future devices. They wouldnât stop support for Push 2 for a few more years.
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Stated at previous Loop conventions, The design of Push closely integrates with the way Live presents itself, i.e 8 knobs matching the 8 macro controls and so on. As for the size, it isnt that much larger than Maschine MK3, if portability is your thing, then MPC Live would be more up your street. MPE is still a niche market at the moment, and you can do MPE within Ableton, if you put time into setting up the instrument concerned, and yes I have a Roli as well, along with Equator, which is MPE within Ableton Live.
Only reason MPE is still âsort ofâ considered niche is because Ableton donât support it. They have the biggest market share for electronic musicians so itâs kind of up to them. I mean you can by MPE controllers at Apple store now. Not very niche. Yeah you âcanâ set it up in ableton but it getâs old very quickly. At least I ended up finding better solutions (Mostly using hardware recording audio in to Ableton).
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Not really, once you have it setup, very easy to errr SAVE IT Mine is part of my default Live template. MPE is still in its infancy, and yes it will grow, but still smaller market for it currently. you can hardly blame Ableton for MPE being Niche. MPE was only officially ratified as part of the Midi protocol in January 2018.
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I thought MPE in Live was a pain in the arse to be honest. In the dark ages when compared to Bitwig (for example).
Barely touching Live these days. My Push 2 is gathering dust but reluctant to let go. In my use case, Push + MPE would be game changing though.
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Same here 
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If they are developing MPE theyâre certainly not doing it since January âŚ
As for portability I think itâs important for many people. Yes Push isnât big for what it does. But does everybody need 64 pads ? Personally Iâll take a bigger screen and less pads, I donât know about you guys.
Didnt say that, I said MPE only became official in January, so will take time to filter through to mainstream usage. Lets face it, many people still have problem accepting USB Midi lol.
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Agreed. I have it saved as part of my default, too. Iâve got Strobe2 and Equator separate in my template and muting one at a time gives me a lot of versatility. Quick mutes from Push2 and back to the Seaboard for jams. Now I want the new Cypher2 while itâs on sale.
Exactly, I have strobe2 as well, I got the full Equator in my bundle