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Novation Launchpad X Grid Controller for Ableton Live & Launchkey 49 [MK3] MIDI Keyboard Controller for Ableton Live

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Style: Launchpad X


Pattern Name: Controller + Stand


Features

  • Product 1: Take Control of Your Performance Essential performance controls are a single button-press away: stop, solo, mute, record arm and set your levels, pans and sends. Using Launchpad X is a simple as it gets, no drivers to install, just plug and perform.
  • Product 1: Dynamic and expressive playing Large RGB velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads give you a perfect reflection of your Ableton Live or Logic Pro session, matching colours from the session window to your Launchpad Pro, making it easier than ever to see your clips and play your instruments dynamically and expressively.
  • Product 1: Our Deepest Ableton Live Integration Quickly launch clips and scenes, access mixer, device and transport controls, and quantise, duplicate and double, all without touching your mouse making it easier and more tactile to control your performances. Capture MIDI makes sure you never miss an idea so you keep in the creative flow.
  • Product 1: Make It Yours with Four Custom Modes Go deeper and get Launchpad X working the way you want. Use Novation Components to customise MIDI mappings, and control almost anything; four custom modes mean you can design how this essential grid controller works for you.
  • Product 2: "Designed for Live Get hands on with Ableton Live An unrivalled integration to Ableton Live with your Launchkey gives you a seamless music making experience. Have all the tools at your disposal with deep and intuitive Ableton Live control including device macro control, track select, record, capture MIDI, clip and scene launch, stop/mute/solo, volume, pans and sends. Never lose an idea with Capture MIDI One touch access to Ableton Lives Capture MIDI ensures you will never lose an idea without taking you from the creative expe-rience.
  • Product 2: Create and play with feeling Velocity-sensitive keyboard and 16 velocity-sensitive pads enable expressive and dynamic performance at your fingertips. Capture your playing in Ableton Live precisely as you intended.
  • Product 2: Play chords with one finger Lay down chords for your track quick with three chord modes fixed, scale, and user. Play a chord with one finger by assigning a fixed shape to the keys and itll transpose as you move up and down the keyboard.
  • Product 2: Get melodies moving with arpeggiator Easy to use but deeply controllable, Launchkey Minis creative arpeggiator allows you to change rhythm, beat, pattern, octave, gate and more to add a whole range of diversity to your ideas and melo-dies.

Description

Novation Launchpad X Grid Controller for Ableton LiveLaunchpad x is our essential 64-pad MIDI grid controller for Ableton Live. It gives you everything you need to make music. Launch, play, and perform your sounds and build your tracks using the large, super-sensitive RGB pads, dynamic note and scale modes, and mixer controls. The essential live controller: everything about making tracks in Ableton Live is made easier with Launchpad x’s quick, hands-on clip and scene launching and our most playable grid to date. Play your instruments and devices expressively with the 64 velocity and pressure- sensitive RGB pads, then never lose an idea with one-press capture MIDI control. Launchpad X belongs on the desk of every Ableton Live music maker. Launchpad X gives you everything you need right at your fingertips so you can spend less time clicking a mouse and more time making music. Dynamic note and scale modes let you easily play perfectly in-key basslines, melodies, chords, and leads. Velocity-sensitive pads with polyphonic aftertouch let you play your instruments dynamically and expressively. Make it yours: go deeper and get Launchpad X working the way you want. Use Components to customize MIDI mappings, and control almost anything; four custom modes mean you can design how this essential grid controller works for you. Essential performance controls are a single Button-press away: stop, solo, mute, record arm, and set your levels, pans, and sends. There are no drivers to install, just plug and perform. Sound Collective: when you register your Launchpad X, you’ll automatically gain access to Sound Collective. Firmware version 2.0 for Launchpad X introduces the exciting Custom Mode keystroke widget. Assign essential DAW shortcuts using Novation Components for a faster, more intuitive workflow. Also, an additional four Custom Mode slots have been added giving you a total of eight slots for customization freedom.Novation Launchkey 49 [MK3] MIDI Keyboard Controller for Ableton LiveLaunchkey is Novation’s intuitive and fully integrated MIDI keyboard controller for making tracks in Ableton Live and with your external equipment. The Launchkey experience is designed for players of all types and abilities. With its various musical creation features, Launchkey removes barriers to creativity, and expands the musical vocabulary of even the most talented keyboardists. Eight Scale modes guide you into new musical territory, by transposing keys played to notes in the scale selected. Simply choose your root note and your preferred scale, then play. Three Chord modes transform the keys and pads into an interactive surface of musical exploration, where every note played is tonally and harmonically linked. The arpeggiator lets you explore new melodies and find ideas quickly, while the mutate function reconstructs your patterns into exciting new forms. Custom Modes simplify the relationship between controller and software, with more power than ever in your hands. Programmable using the Novation Components browser-based tool, Custom Modes let you design the behaviour of your Launchkey, with control over control assignments, MIDI routing, pad colour and much more. Launchkey 49 [MK3] is equipped with a full- size five-pin MIDI DIN output, enabling simple connection to the universe of MIDI devices — new and old. Larger, improved velocity-sensitive pads provide greater control over dynamics, and eight fixed rotary knobs bring your software to life at your fingertips. The integration with Ableton Live is truly seamless, with a dedicated button for activating the Capture MIDI function, plus track arm, quantise, click and loop controls, for flying around your Session faster than ever. Not an Ableton Live user? No problem, Launchkey also has full integration with Logic and Reason, plus out of the box functionality with other DAWs including Studio One, Cubase and Pro Tools, via HUI.


Date First Available: October 21, 2022


Connector Type: USB


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    • Fun device, sadly limited, pads are just okay.
Style: Launchpad X Pattern Name: Controller
Okay, so I just got this controller, but I want to call attention to some issues it has, some clearly bad choices by Novation and some shortcomings of their customizing platform. I think this product gives people the misconception that it's just a really well-designed thing inside and out, and that their software is just what you would want because the note mode looks so cool. While the controller offers a lot of functionality with all of its pads, there are things that make it feel limited. So to set that tone, I will first bring up the fact that it only has 4 custom pages. You get Note mode and 4 custom pages. Why only 4? There are 8 buttons there down the right side, with 4 of them conspicuously unlit. Is giving us 8 whole grids really that data intensive? To make this worse, one of those 4 is taken up by the normal keyboard. That's right, the keyboard with regular piano notes in an intelligible layout is not part of Note mode. That keyboard is custom #2. Note mode ONLY has scale keyboards. And what does this mean? It means you cannot transpose on the normal keyboard. It is a 49-key keyboard with no transpose, on a device that has a transpose feature. If you want to set up a second regular keyboard so you can transpose, you will have to use another one of your 4 custom layouts. Why is a regular keyboard with transpose not part of Note Mode? And why do we only have 4 custom layouts? Let's get away from that and start talking about Note mode. I mentioned that the device feels limited. Well, you can say that is my subjective opinion. But what do you say when you find out that the Launchpad Pro has 32 scales in its Note Mode, and the Launchpad X, (not mentioned by youtube reviewers) has the last half of those arbitrarily removed. That's right, those 2 rows they show you of scales in the note mode settings are 16 out of 32 scales. What is missing? Well, the major pentatonic scale. You can't put the major pentatonic onto note mode. I admit, I don't really know much about these scales, but this doesn't really help. It has these different hungarian scales, but it's lacking major pentatonic. Why? Could the device not hold that many lines of code? I have to expand on this, because it's not just the device that doesn't have it built in. Let's use up a custom mode page to get the major pentatonic scale keybord. I mean, we won't get the cool features of Note mode, but it would be something. Go to your customizer, Novation Components, and you can add scale keyboards. So, can you add a major pentatonic scale with that? No. You can add just the scale keyboards that are already in Note Mode. If you want a major pentatonic, you have to create it note by note. Why do they have to remove it from the system entirely? A recurring theme here is that the product is designed with a certain function in mind, and then the main keyboard modes can't use that function. With a product like this, which is designed to create scale keyboards, it is very weird to be lacking the ability to use basic scales. And you have a regular keyboard with no transpose feature, while transpose exists in Note mode. I was thinking about this some more. I was trying to play a tune on the regular keyboard layout, I learned it, and then I found that I learned it in a different key from the original song. So I thought 'It would be nice if this thing could transpose by semitones (like a capo). Oh wait, it can. IN NOTE MODE' Not only would I have to use 2 custom layouts to get transpose at all, but I wouldn't get semitone transpose. On a device that is created to and indeed has that very function built into it. It's a device that is built for this purpose. I have to stress that Note mode is only using scale keyboards and is not really that useful to people who want to treat this like a keyboard, yet that's where all of the good features are. And then there's the measley 4 custom layouts. I want to go back to the customizing software, the idea of adding notes one at a time. Let's talk about that. It would be great if the designers of this software were good at making software easy to use. You know how in regular MIDI controller apps, you can type the midi value for a note, like '65' onto the pad you are assigning? That makes it easy to get the note value from the drum program and enter it to the pad. What does Novation have? You have to look at the keyboard part of the drum program you are using, and decipher what musical note it is, and what octave it is in. So entering notes one at a time is unnecessarily difficult. I have to look at the keyboard, figure out that it's F# of octave 4, drop down the menu for note and choose F#, drop down the other menu and choose octave 4. And that's information the drum program doesn't readily give me. Come on, Novation, all other editors let you type in numeric MIDI values. So once you create a note, you can then copy it, and whole parts of layouts, right? Well, no, you cannot copy anything. You have to do each thing manually. It's like this is just the bare bones of the bare bones. I think Novation has a reputation that doesn't reflect this. I think it's worth hammering home, because I can keep going. There is no pad naming. So all you have to identify notes on your custom pages is that stupid note name and octave. Like I know what sound B#, octave 3 is on my drum kit. Or if I was trying to trigger clips or something, wouldn't it help me if I could name it something in my layout editor other than B#, octave 3? It's like Novation never thought that people would want to be able to have this function. Also, there is no undo button, so if you delete a note by dragging another onto it, you have to create the note again manually. No undo button. It's just that you wouldn't think this from seeing glimpses of the program in videos. You would think Novation stuff is polished. So I've ripped on the stupid (greedy?) decision to cut off and remove half the scales, including the major pentatonic scale and the stupid decision to make the regular keyboard not part of note mode and take up a custom slot and not have transpose capability. I've ripped on the device for only having 4 custom pages, 1 of which is taken up by said keyboard. So really, you have 3 custom pages. Then I ripped on the online program for, inexplicably, also not offering the missing scale keyboards as custom options. Then I ripped on the program for how unnecessarily awkward is is to add individual custom notes. Then I ripped on how once you add these, you can't name or copy them. Now notice how none of the popular review channels on Youtube said any of this. They didn't mention the lack of scales, did they? Okay, let's talk about the pads now. Are they the best in the business? Well, I don't know how high-end pads feel, but these pads don't pick up light touches. People who say that is normal just have low standards. I modified my Launchpad X like I did to my Akai controllers in the past, putting tape under the pads. I really wish I didn't have to do this and that the reviewers were actually on target, but I realized on day one that these pads needed the mod just like the Akai pads did. After the mod, I really am happy with it, but it was a large pain. These pads aren't able to detect "super light touches" as it comes. They are okay, but I expected to not have to mod them. They miss a lot, if you are playing with a light touch. I bought these thinking they would perform like my modded Akai pads, but that was not the case. So expect that, or expect to mod them. And that's all I have to say about that. It's a fun product. In my opinion, it shines if you mod it, but I haven't seen anyone else do that and wouldn't expect to due to the difficulty of that particular mod. And what really bugs me is the things they either took out, or failed to put into their software, both in the device and on their programming utility. I would buy another one, but that is because I'm willing to mod it, but I think I would go for a Pro and mod that instead, as it has all 32 scales and 8 custom modes. What the heck Novation, I feel ripped off. Give me the major pentatonic scale and 4 missing custom modes, put the standard keyboard in Note Mode, and give your editor better workflow functions if you want to live up to your "great workflow" image. Oh yeah, if the pads sensitive like my tape-modded pads it would earn that "up there with the best" image. Thanks for reading. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020 by qbo
    • Bought it for drums, but this changed the way I write music completely
Style: Launchpad Pro [MK3] Pattern Name: Controller
I got this thinking I was just going to use it to help tap out drums for recording music. While it helps do that very well, and works with Superior Drummer 2, I found that I have a lot more use for it than I thought I would. If you are getting it for drums, I would highly suggested connecting it to your computer and going to the Components site. This allows you to program which notes (and colors) appear for each pad. This is very helpful when setting up drums. Now for what I found most interesting and complete unexpected. This has something called Note mode. By default it has a chromatic scale (every note, laid out like a piano would), however, you can change it so it only has the notes of the scale you are using available , i.e. "Scale Mode". This means that you cannot hit a wrong note, every pad is assigned with notes from the scale you have chosen. There are 16 different scales to choose from, and you can also choose the key of the scale. Interestingly, you can choose an offset too, which determines how many notes the next row should be offset by. All of this comes together in an experience I never anticipated having. As a guitarist for 20+ years, I am pretty capable of playing something if I want to, comfortable with scales, etc. But with that, I get stuck in a rut of playing a certain way, or having familiar phrasing, note choice, etc. Furthermore, I'm "terrible" at song writing, I'm decent at doing covers. It's not that what I write is completely awful, it is just that what I write is obvious for lack of better words. When I listen to the bands I like, what impresses me the most is when there was a surprise to the music and it worked well into the song. My song writing is typically not that at all. With this scale mode and not being able to hit a wrong note, I can just tap random patterns out and have come up with concepts that I would have never written by myself prior to this. What makes it better, is that I don't have any concept of what the notes are going to sound like yet before I hit them, I haven't memorized where each note is located like a piano or a guitar, so it is forcing me to tap randomly. And from that, I am hearing note choices I would not have attempted before. The process is so fascinating, because it is like taking all the extra baggage that goes into song writing (i.e. knowing music theory, knowing the notes on a guitar and scales, being able to play the guitar, trying to translate an idea into a reality, not hitting wrong notes, trying to figure out the harmony) and divorcing it from just thinking about what you want to accomplish. If I want a higher note, I just move up, if I want a lower note, I just move down. In a way, it is like distilling the song writing process into just thinking and not having to work so hard at the doing aspect. It is so hard to describe the feeling, but I haven't felt that close the song writing process in maybe... forever? The process of making harmonies for lead parts on guitar isn't rocket science, but sometimes it can take a little work to figure it out. This makes playing a harmony much easier. If I am trying for thirds, I just play the same pattern two pads over, done. This has been another way to breed creativity. I have tried different notes together and it has lead to better harmonies. When I finally get the music midi recorded from the launchpad, I then learn the parts on guitar. This can be challenging, which is part of the "beauty" of doing music this way. I would have never played guitar this way, nor made these note choices for myself on the guitar. Just a note on this compared to the Launchpad X. Shipping was originally delayed to the point where I wasn't sure I was going to get this, so I ended up getting the Launchpad X and then this finally arrived. This gave me the opportunity to test out the pad sensitivity between the do. For whatever reason, I felt like the launchpad X had decent pad sensitivity, but the pro mk3 just had slightly better sensitivity. I am not sure it would have been worth the extra money to spring for the pro mk3 just for this factor alone, both are good products, but the pro mk3 does seem to have slightly better pad sensitivity. I ended up returning the X and keeping this pro mk3. This also has a sequencer and some other additional functionality too that the X doesn't have, including a row of buttons on the left and two rows of buttons on the bottom. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2021 by Patrick Ward

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