Novation Remote SL- Can anyone onee Reccomend?

I sent my sl 37 packin'......................

It basically sucked donkeys. Two of the keys went bad (in one week), the buttons were just awful.....the pads were awful......the joystick is not for me.....(but at least it actually worked) Every time I tried to tie the x/y to ANYTHING, it crashed, and oh yes......the automap is a scam, so far.

Now, before I get all the "mine works" people giving me heck, consider this:

It was 500 usd. For that price I expect more. Frankly, my keystation49e was a far better controller. I didn't buy it for the automap, I wanted a top end keyboard controller first, and the "fluff" second.

I'm guessing that the negatives are about 5 to 1 over the happy users right now. I hope that changes.

I had a bad experience as well. Plus the customer support *****. The auto mapping is underwhelming to say the least...get something else.

Hey, I spelled Reccommend with one "m". I hate that.

But you're OK with two C's?

I have the Remote25SL. I ditched automap and just use hard templates for specific instruments. 3 of the 8 pads don't work properly but I'm afraid to send it back as I'm likely to get another with bad pads. You have to surgically remove the stupid rubber strip over the keybed to have decent action. It has NO basic master controller features such as presets, send program changes to devices, initialize controllers, etc.

I am keeping it as I need a small controller and it does aftertouch and release velocity. All in all though, I'm not thrilled with it.

Surprised to read so many bad reviews.. I've got the Remote SL 25 and I had a M-audio 61 radium. My SL actually works great. In Reason it's heaven, in Logic it's OK. The display works great, the knobs feel fine, the pads don't. Logic doesn't crash on my book using the X/Y assigning and the keys feel great.

The only thing is that I can't get the transport to work. I paid about 300 USD for it and that's half the price I would pay here in Europe for it (500 euro) so no complaints here.... except this tempo tap light won't stop flickering.

Basically the automap works great on Cubase and Reason and Novation plugins, as well as the Native Instruments plugins, but in Logic not all functions automap to a knob when you open things.

To be honest, I'm happy with it and haven't found an easier way to control my mobile studio software.

I guess my thing is for the money, you can get an axiom 49 and an icontrol which for LOGIC makes more sense.

Now, cubase and reason are certainly another story:)

KORG KONTROL 49. Once you try it, you won't want anything else.

I have purchased the remote SL 61
keyboard a few weeks ago.

It is just too much fun to program.

The touch is fantastic and extremely expressive.

Aftertouch ! release velocity !

the best i have ever tried

How long did it take you to program your Axiom for Logic, and how deep a controller setup did you do? Do you have it set up for controlling plug-ins, etc?
I found the built-in maps that came with my Axiom 49 underwhelming.

automapping works great for me now

the thing i didnt do was scan for controller/hardware (in Logic Pro). after that it worked well.

basically just download the latest installer from the Novation site. install everything and then in Logic you can for hardware and it'll find the Novation. then you're set