My thoughts on the Akai APC64 for Ableton Live



Akai sent over the APC64 a few weeks ago to test out. In this video I’m focusing on the Ableton Live side of things. The hardware sequencer thoughts can be found here: https://youtu.be/duXFyQu16lM

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7 thoughts on “My thoughts on the Akai APC64 for Ableton Live”

  1. So you are beta testing this device in public, (in two videos now) and finding out that basic, basic functions are missing. I don't know why Akai doing this to themselves, releasing this device with this limited functionality.

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