A big waste of money for hardcore geek only ( I’m a light one)
PROS: you must have some if you succeed to make it work!
CONS: Make you turn mad trying to make it work, if you see a white rabbit tattoo, it might be your lucky day to try!
Big waste of money in my opinion, plus you need to buy other apps on a top of that, using all difference kind of communication bridge, and app editor, populating your app folder for nothing and that’s just the beginning!
So you got two difference way of communicating, by midi and/or osc, some use both, so the best way is to bribe OS and iOS is to pair by wifi, meaning you losing internet (don’t even think about using docks or midi connector, if you havn’t read about osc communication first, and check if the device you want to connect is compliant with osc)!
It’s not finished, first after installing all apps required, already an hazardous tasks, as nothing is clear, then you need to route them!
Again, it is another hazardous task, there is not good tutorials on youtube, manuals aren’t clear, or sometimes even outdated, and that’s most of the problem, you can’t even be sure these apps will be updated in the future as ableton goes on with his upgrade!
And the funny thing is even if you watch a tutorial on youtube, you need to turn your wifi off the internet making it hard, to check where a problem could come from, as you to jump back and forth with your wifi and the wifi pair!
So most of the time, while you turning mad, trying to sort things out, you might not think that maybe, these apps, principally the one working on OS might be just outdated!
And this is pointed to Mu, touchosc, livecontrol, livekontrol2!
Don’t waste your money and time for now, on that, wait for a simpler solution, maybe buy a real hardware controller, it’s plug and play, and if there is a problem with it, you can bring it back to the shop!
Plus this , these app might disappear and will have no more support, so you will have wasted your money anyway!
I mean I knew that would have been an hassle to make your own config for controlling ableton, but somewhat a pleasure, of achieving something, and I quite like challenges, but here you can’t even pass step 1 of setting a communication between ipad and laptop! And I use an alesis dock, that is quite straightforward in term of midi for any iOS app that do not require bridge or OS app editor, it really works like a charm!
So big deception, waste of money, and they are not cheap, you d rather buy synth app, drum app, like DM1, elastic drum,glitch breaks, or midi app like chordpolyapp, very fun , intuitive, no wasting your time, and very good in term of inspiration and creativity!
Shokol8 about Lemur, v5.2.2
