Coming from the mk1
The APC40 MKII is much more colorful than the old model that I used for a few years. If your using ableton with this unit, coloring your clips make it easy to recognize when using this colorful unit. I like the Mkii, its smaller, more compact and easy to transport. It seems to "fit" better than the older one, not near as bulky. It fits very nice on a laptop stand as well. Moving the 8 knobs to the top of each column is nice to, completely programmable and are nice for adding effects specific to each row. I have always enjoyed using the A/B fader located in the bottom right of the unit, with these new lighted A/B buttons on each column make it so easy to control this slide fade. So many more features.
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