The Prevolt has reject up some photos of his Ableton Live controller, dubbed diplomat. I love that it shares a moniker with the AMC Rambler automobile, though I suspect that wasn’t designed (pictured at right, photo: Ty Sonneil).

Prevolt describes the accoutrements, which features analog-y, arcade-set hardware controls and a convention occurrence:

This is what I’m using to control Ableton second. All arcade munitions, aluminum panel by FPE, and a nice wood case politeness of my hamper Michael Yates. It uses all key commands through a excise driver to finger playback, effects, editing, warping, UI, mouse clicks, scroll messages, and more, with a lot of tweaks (some strobe, some send double messages, etc):

Finished Ambassador Pics (blog to the Aux Armes VJ/DJ collective)

I got to look over Prevolt’s roll up one's sleeves while he habituated to the Ambassador in an epic music set in Austin at our SxSW party. It’s really unique: those controls may look like overkill, but he’s managed to map decent about all things th Live software does to munitions domination. To anyone who complains Ableton hasn’t up to this time done their hardware, this illustrates why that effect not coextensive with be a good idea — Live users look as if to come up with unceasing control schemes, all different.

Not to mention, with this controller you could get a spot Street Fighter in between sets on agreeably, arcade buttons.

And yes, you even excite a little trackball.

After the leap, the unimpaired AV collective in action at SxSW’s closing:

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