A red rectangle in Live moves about as you scroll, showing which clips are active on the Launchpad’s grid. If you have more tracks and clip slots in your session, use Launchpad’s directional arrow buttons to move through the software’s session view. Of course, if you already own a full version of Ableton Live, Launchpad will work with it as well.Īfter installing the software and setting Launchpad as your control surface in Live, Launchpad’s pad grid in Session mode will show you the top eight clip slots of the first eight tracks in your Live Session view. The Launchpad is USB bus-powered and includes software drivers, demo Live session files and a special, limited Launchpad version of Ableton Live 8 to get you started. Read on to decide if you should blast off or abort mission. What one might consider a poor man’s APC-40, the Launchpad ($199US) anchors itself around and 8-by-8 grid of 64 buttons for launching clips and scenes from Ableton Live’s Session view, while a Mixer mode gives you ready access to track volume, pan, Send A/B amount, mute, solo and record enable. Today Novation announced a new Ableton Live controller called Launchpad, and DJ Tech Tools got an advance look at one of the first units available.
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