Novation Launchpad X MIDI Grid Controller for Ableton Live/Logic Pro — Easy Controls, Dynamic Note Playing, Scale Modes

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Four Customisable Modes – You Can Use Components to Customise Mappings and Control MIDI from the Launchpad X. Grab a Launchpad. Now you can launch your clips from a grid of pads that match your session. Add a Launch Control XL and take hands-on control of your filters, effects and instruments too. The Launchpad Mini Mk 3’s about as small as you can get and still be usable. True, the X is more fun for finger drummers, and more ‘playable’ in general thanks to the superior pads, but for basic clip and scene launching, and drum triggering, the Mini works fine, especially now clip colours are visible.

Trigger Live Loops in Logic Pro – use cells to sketch out arrangement ideas, fast, and record your performances Each widget has different settings, some of this has been explained above. All widgets allow you to change the MIDI channel, and Widgets on the same template can have different channels. Selecting “Global Channel” will mean this widget uses the channel selected from the Launchpad itself, allowing you to change what the control is interacting with from the hardware.

Size really doesn’t matter

The Drum Grid includes sets of 16 pads to play notes across two octaves in a square. You can customise the octave and channel. By default, this is set to Octave 3.

Whichever software you're using, Launchpad Pro lets you control it and any piece of external hardware. Plug it straight into Logic Pro and play it like a keyboard, or connect the MIDI ports to Bass Station II and play riffs on your grid. Immediately play your clips:

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The first is Ampify Launchpad, the company’s accessible, DJ-style music-making app that allows users to trigger, manipulate and perform with loops from their mobile device. Naturally though, things have moved on significantly over the past ten years, and the slightly simplistic nature of those original Launchpads now looks rather dated.Vertical and Horizontal Bipolar Faders are the same but show lights on either side of the centre. This is useful for assigning pan controls, as the centre value will be equivalent to central panning. Wrong Mode: this means the device is connected and recognised, but is in the wrong state, in this case, it could mean the Launchpad is in Bootloader mode. Pressing the green pad at the bottom right will let it start as normal. If not, please try reinstalling the firmware from the Firmware tab. Vertical and Horizontal Unipolar Faders allow you to send a CC message on a chosen channel - these faders start low and move to the highest value.