LK - for Ableton Live & Midi

My review is based on functionalities. And LK fills a big gap where I'm not always next to my Ableton Push and I still want control over my session so I bought the Matrix module. The Imaginando support online is so friendly and helpful, I spoke to them today and solved my problem in one contact. I wish the best for them!

I tried this app when I had a jailbroke free IAP version years ago and liked it. So when I got a new iPad I decided to buy some features to try and loop clips with ease. I never dove into it super deep so I’m just finding the UI a bit not so user friendly. It seems great and maybe great along side Ableton but only iPad alone, haven’t really found it as useful as I anticipated. Love your other apps though!?! hahah!?!

It makes me so happy.

I think this app is amazing. Really reliable and flexible. You can totally fine the granular thing as well as the macro. It’s a fantastic app and I’d easily give it 5 stars if it weren’t for one thing. Record enable is in exclusive mode in Ableton 12 at least. When I record enable a track it disables the others, it that’s something that can be changed it’s a very easy 5 stars!

LK as an iPad controller for Ableton Live is superb. The two-way control script works well and USB connection through UBRIDGE has been solid after I got over the initial setup (I found that some USB ports on my Windows computer would drop the connection to my iPad and so I had to try a few different ones). The big mark I have against LK right now is that, at least in Live mode, all of the faders and pots feel too choppy! It’s almost like the controls have less than the standard 7 bits of resolution, though I know this to be false since I can scroll through all 128 values of a macro if I move a control very slowly. But when moving a control with some speed, you get audible stepping when doing certain volume fades or filter sweeps, which is a shame. Controls in TouchOSC for example don’t suffer from this nearly as much. If fader smoothness improves in the future, LK will be a formidable live/DJ tool and get an instant five stars from me for the Matrix alone (plus bonus points if 14 bit control is added!). Some other suggestions: - support double tapping a control to reset to default value in Controller; - add a preference for “relative” fader controls a la TouchOSC, to prevent instantaneous parameter jumps; - on Windows, add a built-in virtual MIDI port to UBRIDGE to remove the need for a third-party MIDI routing app (the TouchOSC desktop app does this for example). Keep up the good work!

MIDI transformers and generators like Live 12. Sell them as IAP.

Thanks guys for your great support, I look forward to using this software.

Exhibits well-documented issues with UI literally disappearing, requiring a reboot and loss of material. Devs are aware, and have been busy, apparently, bringing yet another app to market. That app has dropped, and now it’s time for them to do the right thing and get this app back in operation. Followup- Developer response welcome, and hope to see a fix soon. LK is a favorite tool.

This would be much more powerful if the user could create a custom layout of pads that can each: 1) Be named 2) Send any midi message on any channel

I see the potential after using it for the past 2 days but it constantly freezes on my 4th Gen iPad Pro M2, iOS 17. After doing some research I have found that others are having freezing issues and that this app has been abandoned due to the developer working on another project.