Sonic terrorist or visual junkie?
Then ARC is for you!
ARC doesn’t care what software you want to use it with. It’s compatible with ALL MIDI capable software (just remember that Ableton Live ‘may’ not correctly work with ARC running as we use three of the default buttons).
WHAT IS ARC?
ARC (for the APC40 mkII) is a piece of middleware software that sits between you physical MIDI controller and the software that you want to use it with.
WHAT DOES IT DO?
ARC gives you to access all sixteen MIDI channels via your controller and for you to route them onto your chosen piece of software how you want to do it.
HOW DOES THIS WORK?
ARC has a in built user interface to allow you to choose the templates, specify modes and event decide on how extra items operate.
AUDIO OR VISUAL?
ARC works with all MIDI compatible software. So take the TRIAL version for a test drive and see how you can expand your control.
Features of ARC
The overly dramatic headline may require some explanation. So here it is.
SIMPLE USER INTERFACE
Pressing the [PLAY] button enters the user interface. Here you can decide just how your controller looks and behaves.
USER SELECTED COLOURS AND LAYOUT
Choose the flash type, colour and display mode of your controllers [CLIP TRIGGERS] from three available presets.
640 [CLIP TRIGGERS]
Sixteen MIDI channels equals a whole lot of MIDI triggering at your fingertips.
80 [SCENE LAUNCH] BUTTONS
Now you can use the [SCENE LAUNCH] buttons across all sixteen channels.
144 [FADERS]
All faders are now acessible via your currently active MIDI channel.
16 [CROSSFADERS]
Ever wanted to scratch individual groups (Resolume Arena only) – Now you can.
TOGGLE OR MOMENTARY BUTTONS
Decide how the [CLIP STOP] , [#|AB|S|R] and [SCENE LAUNCH] buttons respond to you.
USER SELECTED LED RINGS
Choose how the [TRACK] and [DEVICE] pots illuminate their LED rings by each channel.
128 [DEVICE] POTS
Push the controller beyond it’s default eight channels of [DEVICE] pots. With ARC you can access all sixteen channels.
128 [TRACK] POTS
Bedore you had only one option, eight only. Now with sixteen channels, you can MIDI map all 128 [TRACK] pots.
16 [FOOT SWITCHES] OR JUST THE ONE
With two modes of use. The first gives you 16 individually mappable foot switches, the second gives you immediate access between the higher and lower channels.
16 TIMES ALL REMAINING BUTTONS
All remaining buttons on the controller are accessible by your selected channel as momentary buttons (as per the AKAI APC40 mkII user guide.
‘There are too many buttons and not enough fingers to press them. Despite this, more than a million new buttons are created every day. Madness!’
@Jeffnoon
