EMULSION: Hi. I'm Nathan from Emulsion, and I wanted to show off the Novation Remote SL, which is a great keyboard with a couple of screens on it for showing you what you're actually adjusting. I use it in Ableton Live and it talks to Ableton really well, kind of a two-way interaction where if you change something on the screen you're also getting it changed on the keyboard or vice versa, and I'll show it off with just a bass arpeggiated patch, just kind of showing a couple of things you can do with tweaking the plugin. Just bear in mind, I didn't have to set up a bunch of assignments for this stuff. This is just sort of live. It just sort of knows which parameters are set up on a plugin and lets you play with it.

So, here I've got a bass patch and I did set up one assignment map here. It's got a row of eight knobs that you can assign in Ableton the way you would assign any knob on any controller, but then on top of it it's got a row of rotary encoders that are specifically set up for whatever plugin you currently have selected in Ableton. In this case I have the arpeggiator plugin which lets me do a couple of cool things here, say change the arpeggiator rate, and I can just do it without even looking at the screen, and then you add into that, just being able to change maybe the groove, the swing, maybe the gate length, bring that down really tight, just a whole range of parameters that you can page through. So yeah, it's a great box and then you add into that the mixing features so that I can take this bass just like you'd expect except I didn't have to set this up as any kind of assignment. You can just page through eight channels at a time in Ableton.