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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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04/28/10 10:57 AM,
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Ableton and Novation, having co-developed the Launchpad, have worked together to to make the Novation SL MkII range fully integrated with Live 8. The SL MkIIs are comprehensive bus-powered Ableton Live 8 controllers and include on-board keyboards. This integration makes controlling Ableton’s Session view, Mixer, and plug-ins and devices quick and easy because all of Ableton’s major controls are instantly assigned to SL Mk II’s 56 knobs, faders and buttons. Live’s plug-in devices are assigned to controls as you load them…
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Monday, March 15, 2010
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03/15/10 11:16 AM,
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Focusrite Audio Engineering, the U.K. manufacturer of Focusrite and Novation brands, has announced the formation of Focusrite Novation Inc., which establishes a dedicated American presence for the company. Industry leader Phil Wagner, who held a similar position as President of Solid State Logic, will head the new company. Phil Dudderidge, Focusrite Managing Director, states, “We want to increase the recognition of and support for the Focusrite and Novation brands in the vital U.S. market. Creating Focusrite Novation Inc. enables us…
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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01/19/10 08:00 AM,
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At the 2010 Winter NAMM show, Novation released the Launchpad, a hands-on, interactive controller for Ableton Live. Launchpad is a compact controller designed to provide the most interactive experience possible in Ableton Live. It communicates bi-directionally with the software to give users real-time session feedback. Launchpad has been jointly designed by Novation and Ableton to bring the features of Live to the fingertips of the modern musician. The 8 x 8 grid of backlit buttons addresses a multitude of functions,…
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
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12/03/09 07:46 AM,
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The latest update to Novation’s MIDI-control application, Automap v3.4, has been released, offering dozens of new mappings for plug-ins and instruments, as well as firmware updates for Novation keyboards and controllers. When developing Automap v3.4, Novation focused on expanding Automap’s on-board library of mappings (collections of assignments that tie knobs, faders and buttons of Novation hardware to software parameters) for Logic, Reason and Pro Tools. To acheive this, the mappings system was fully rebuild to allow thousands of new mappings…
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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11/04/09 10:48 AM,
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Novation has announced the immediate release of Automap v3.3, the mapping software that enables the company’s MIDI control surfaces to smoothly integrate with digital audio workstations (DAWs). The new version 3.3 revision takes advantage of Apple’s Logic 9 integration, enabling Novation hardware to control Logic’s native plug-ins and software instruments. Pro tools native plug-ins are also fully supported. In addition, Automap v3.3 is also the first DAW software to fully support the new Novation Launchpad controller. Because Apple’s Logic 9…
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
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10/01/09 10:01 AM,
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Novation has released Launchpad, a hands-on, interactive controller for Ableton Live. Launchpad is designed to provide the most interactive experience possible in Ableton Live. It communicates bi-directionally with the software to give users real-time session feedback. Launchpad has been jointly designed by Novation and Ableton, to bring the features of Live to the fingertips of the modern musician. The 8 x 8 grid of backlit buttons addresses a multitude of functions, with the help of mode selectors that transport the…
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Monday, August 24, 2009
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08/24/09 09:11 AM,
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Novation is now shipping the new SL Mk II range of controller keyboards featuring Automap 3 technology. With seamless support for Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo, Cubase, Sonar, DP, RTAS, TDM, VST, AU plugins and software instruments, the new SL Mk II is the most powerful controller on the market for any modern recording and performance set up. The SL Mk II features over 70 controls including touch-sensitive faders and ringlet rotaries, backlit switches, and pads all tightly linked…
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Monday, April 13, 2009
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04/13/09 12:47 PM,
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American Music & Sound has announced the appointment of Ralph Goldheim to the position of National Sales Manager for Focusrite and Novation products in the United States. Goldheim is a 25-plus year veteran of the professional audio industry having held positions as National Sales Manager for M-Audio and Vice President of Sales at 360 Systems, in addition to co-founding Line 6 and serving as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Alesis Corporation. “I couldn’t be more excited about this…
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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03/18/09 01:02 PM,
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My DAW desktop surface is more crowded than ever—-and I’m loving it! I just added the new Novation Nocturn Plug-in Controller to my small army of DAW accessories. As DAW plug-ins become more complex and intense, their GUIs (graphical user interface) have become more jam packed with more parameter controls than ever! And in order to keep their GUI’s screen size to a minimum, the controls and buttons keep getting smaller and smaller. Even though I get new glasses often,…
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
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01/29/09 03:23 PM,
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When Novation first launched Automap Software Control in 2005, it signaled a fundamental change in the way DAWs and plug-ins could be controlled. The launch of the new Automap 3 Pro has been enhanced with a wealth of much-anticipated features. For the first time, Automap 3 Pro supports multiple hardware devices. This enables any of Novation’s intuitive hardware controllers to be stacked within the Automap server. Mutiple Novation controllers can then work side by side to access separate parameters on…
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