Akai was one of the music manufacturers that stole the show at this year’s NAMM trade conference. The simple reason: the APC is a rare combination of a whole mess of colored buttons with a whole bunch of faders and knobs. Now, the APC’s big selling point is its out-of-box experience with...

I was in MidValley today, looking for a tiny power adapter for the power adapter on my Eee PC. After much searching, Ace Hardware seemed to have what I was after. However, post-dinner, it became clear to me that walking by the IT Mall there would be kind of useful. Walked into the Acer shop to check...

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Jay Smith of Livid Instruments may be in the business of making controller hardware himself, but that doesn’t stop him from appreciate the knob-laden goodness of the NAMM show floor. Jay’s own gear reveals a not-so-secret love of knobs and buttons and faders, and if you’re into tha...

Out of all the controllers announced in the 2009 Winter NAMM, the Akai APC40 is the one I’m most excited about. What is the AKAI APC40? It’s a dedicated controller just for Live and is intended to offer real-time control of Live’s session view. It features 109 buttons, 16 endless encoders with...

As I read through comments, it seems worth some additional notes and clarifications on Native Instruments’ Maschine hardware/software drum machine combo and Akai’s APC40 controller for Ableton Live. (That’s not to say that the two are comparable – though I do hope to see them running side by...

I was able to get additional clarification from Ableton on the Akai APC40. Specifically, it’s worth talking about what makes this unique as a controller. It’s not for everyone – that’s what’s wonderful about computers, that you can control them with lots of different devices. And using Max...

Today my new batteries came for my UPS on my main computer.  It's an APC BackUPS RS1500 with an external battery pack... about 60 lbs shipped.  The batteries were 3 years old and it was time for a replacement... no biggy. I uninstalled the software because I thought it might have been acting up, b...

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Filed under: Rants and raves, Market matters, Diageo plc (DEO), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Bargain stocks, Chasing Value, Stocks to Buy Weakness in oil prices, trading around $42 per barrel this morning due to global economic fears and a real recession are creating opportunities for those with cash t...