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  • How do you get live input feedback from individual notes my stays blank till im done recording

  • is this cubase?

    

  • when i go to change the midi to it wont let me select the launchpad why?

  • May I ask where you get this Drumrack samples from? I really like that one, and tried to put it together myself, but I didn't quite get it together.

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  • lol Midi rooting

  • @DjZeroGravity129 Impulse is a fine drum machine, I have Live 8 Suite and use it for almost all of my drum loops. You do know you don't need to use Abletons inbuilt drum racks? Download a sample kit like vengeance and just drag your own drum samples into Impulse. ;)

  • Launchpad drums

  • hey are you using the ableton launchpad edition?? they really give you very basic intruments to use in the launchpad edition maybe i messed up somewhere updating it or something idk but i wish there were more instruments and atleast a drum rack that isnt impulse

  • When i try to change the MIDI To: its doesnt show launchpad as one of the outputs :( help

  • @ItsSeagull explain more

  • @xPVI Ok at 4:25 he sets the MIDI Output to Launchpad.. mine doesnt show launchpad in the options only the drum rack.. So i went to the MIDI sync page and when i try to change the second output under MIDI ports, the Off/On button is faded or no able to use.. help

  • @xPVI The button wont turn yellow on the Midi Configuration page..

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  • all works great expect the overdub part,i can't assign my Launchpad to on/off the overdub button from midi map

  • Is there any way to not have to arm the tracks that do the led feedback? I'd like it to be on all the time but need to be able not have things armed all the time.. : / Thanks.

  • launchpad does not show up in the midi to section! help please!

    

  • @ steps track .. you have to configurate it -> Midi To - your "Launchpad Track" and not to the device directly right?

  • a question, does the novation launchpad ONLY works with ableton?

  • @Soint Nope, but it is probably easier to setup in Live.

  • @Soint no there are mappings for it for different software. i use it for ableton and traktor pro. And i am sure it works with other software.

  • When using the launchpad does the sound come out of your main computer speakers?

  • @GTRoyalFlushed depends how you hvae it hooked up to produce sound. like right now i have a headset on so if i was using the launchpad it would go through my headset. if i had speakers hooked up to play music or whatever it would go through that.

  • ok, I'm having problems with the overdub option. when i turn the overdub on it washes out all my previous midi notes that I recorded on the previous pass into one long note. Really frustrated, please help!

  • @ddistrtt are you playing the same note over again?? or different notes? 

  • does anyone know if the launchpad works on windows 7?

  • @ThisIsFPS of course it works on windows 7!!!

  • My launchpad still doesn't show up in the Midi To section. In my midi preferences, it is set as the controller, input, and output, and under Midi Ports the launchpad's output sync and remote buttons are enabled (yellow) but the track button only turns a lighter shade of grey, not yellow, when I click it. Anyone know why this is?

  • @branchingmattyD wondering the same...

  • @MrJonex225 I had to download a newer version of ableton. the one that came with my launchpad was outdated, and once I downloaded the new version it worked instantly

  • @branchingmattyD thank you bro! worked fine!!

  • Aside from all the beats and whatnot that you can make...can you add or mix in some music you have on your i-Pod/i-Tunes or anything else on your computer?

  • @pnar13 yes.

  • My ableton keeps on crashing when i put the launchpad to output?

  • @poliny when I have allot of midi notes and I output to Launchpad mine gets very lagy. I dont think my computer can handle it.

  • how do you get the quantization to be so locked in when recording drums, mine never lock in.

  • @kryptonitejesus wanna know too

  • @SoloShow I found it btw, check up in the Edit menu under Recording Quantization

  • also, around 4:20 it doesnt give the option for my launchpad as a output. how do you make is so you can?

  • @ForsakenPeanut Make sure you have it set to a mid track and that your launchpad is hooked up

  • How did you make the steps? im very new to the software and have no clue

  • Wow thanks so much Fletch  - I knew it was possible to create a step sequencer with pad feedback, but as I am so new to Live, didnt know how to do it without Max.

    Youve opened up a whole new world for me and my Pad

    Much respect

    Lea

  • watch?v=U425croRnu4 This video is using similar techniques for performance and my channel has ableton live templates for djing/electronic live performance

  • ableton crashes always i set my launchpad to the output. :( Any helps?

  • FLETCHMUSIC - WHAT the FUK is this!! I'll tell you what it is mate - not onlyt a brilliant tutorial but extremely intuitive .. awesome, well done, and I finally have a comprehensive, albeit novice, User 1 Mode tutorial - well done!

  • I would love to have one of them how hard are they to set up?

  • this was so useful thanks man

    

  • I can play a drum from LP, it lights up. Then Live crashes? OX X Lion

  • @ajmtranz Wait for the latest Live update, Ableton doesn't work on Lion right now.

  • @bjarkebech yes it does... i have ableton 8 running right now on my mbp with lion

  • @ajmtranz Turn off multicore support until ableton releases a patch as noted on the ableton support site regarding lion and the crash bug they have listed on the home page of ableton

    

  • @thecryptkicker5

    Thank you for the reply. I finally found that out after an extensive search.

  • This video is great. I was already excited to get my Launchpad, now I can't wait.

  • @Fuzzels65 Those are the main reasons why it's worse. To have the Launchpad working as good as the APC40 does you would need the Launchpad and a decent mixer. APC40 is basically a Launchpad with a different design and no mixer. Now leave your bridge and go learn about real life.

  • My Launchpad is not showing in "MIDI to", do you have an idea why ? The "On" option in Output under "track" is greyed in the settings. Thanks :)

  • @Idelafr its in the preferences - midi tab, make sure that beside one of the "Outputs" below the "Midi Ports" line you have everything switched on for Track Sync Remote then go back and Launchpad should be there. I was having the same problem.

  • @chrcrash thanks ! will have a look at that !

  • @chrcrash still gray =(

  • is it possible to do this with the apc40?

  • @ObitNet Pretty sure the apc40 does this and way more, but if it's your first thing like this, I'd say go for the launchpad because it's less than half the price of the apc40 and you might not be into this kind of thing.

  • Thou Art Gr8!

    

  • i appreciate the tutorial, but you really need to work on your presentation on somethings because at points I had no idea what the hell you were doing, and at 4:56, what the fuck are you doing exactly, because when i click the midi i have no mappings showing up

  • @aallenebs so, what did he do? because i still have no idea.

  • i appreciate the tutorial, but you really need to work on your presentation on somethings because at points I had no idea what the hell you were doing

  • How do you open the drum rack? ive been looking for hours now plzz help...

  • thanks for the tutorial, but i had some problems in user1 mode, when i touch the pad ambar LEDS should turn on, but they don't. Also i don´t know how to turn on the LEDS with the metronome, i bought the launchpad a few days ago and i'm learning somethings but if you kould help me now it would be great! , sorry for my english

    thanks!

  • cheers for this, the only problem i have is. when i go backonto session on the lauchpad, 4 lights on the 7th row light up and the 6th row lights up also the track on and solo. why is this?

  • doesn't matter figured it out. if anyone else is thick like me you need to set the launchpad in midi prefs as in and out both at the control surface section at the top and the midi ports bit at the bottom. beeeeeeeellllllllllmmmmmmmmmmm

  • i've got the launchpad configured in the midi pref as an input & output and with track and remote switched to on but there is still no launchpad option in the midi to drop down. any ideas?

  • Ok, I had the same problem. go to options and undo the "computer midi key board" option, then go back to preferences - midi sync - and you should have options now for the input and output

  • how do you do this with mapping on user 2 mode???

  • dude you didnt really explain how to assign it to a midi button to toggle it how exactly do you do that? please help thanks

  • @ChoClateMilk2 Click the MIDI button in the upper right between the KEY button and the CPU meter, and the Live display will overlay a blue color over the controls and parameters that can be now assigned to a MIDI control. Double-check your Live manual, page 401 for Live 7's manual and page 459-460 for Live 8.

  • @ThePauloman80 thanks bro appreciate it

  • @ThePauloman80 i got it to light up but how exactly would i be able to save it so the lights will always be lighting up would i have to creat a patch in max for live? sorry im just so confused

  • @ChoClateMilk2 I think you're asking how to make this tweak *permanent* so you don't have to do it every single time. Don't have M4L, so I dunno about creating a patch, but it seems the easiest way to do it would be to create a new Live set with only the LED feedback channel in it, save the file (i.e. led_template.als), and then make that file the template file that opens whenever you launch Live (Prefs > File/Folder at the very top where it says "Save Current Set As Template")...

  • @ChoClateMilk2 Then when you open Live and start working on a new set, the template file opens and the LED feedback channel is ready to have another channel route its MIDI to it. I do the same thing for my click track channel as I use a REDRUM kit in Reason, so my click channel already has the ReWire routing set up so I can drag and drop my click track MIDI clips into it. It's not really a "permanent" solution, but using a template file would certainly save you the couple minutes of setup time.

  • @ThePauloman80 thanks that helped a lot man 

  • great tutorial, but your on and off microphone drives me INSANE!

  • hey, I have a trouble on the LAST step of the turning on led's - whenever i go to choose the output on the second 'midi' i only have the choice to choose the drumrack, help?

  • @MATTnJACKmaybeBEN @gumbasmut Sounds like you need to tweak your MIDI prefs in relation to the Launchpad so it actually receives MIDI output to light up the buttons. Go to Preferences > MIDI Sync. Under Control Surface, Input and Output at the top, make sure one of the rows is set to Launchpad. Then down under MIDI Ports at the bottom, enable Track and Remote for both the "Input: Launchpad Input" and "Output: Launchpad Output." If that doesn't fix it, I'm not sure what's wrong.

  • Hey there. I can't get this to work, b/c I don't seem to be able to set up my version of Live the same way.

    I have the Launchpad Edition (that came w/ my Launchapad), and I cannot enable/select the Launchpad device as a Track Out. Any ideas ?

    cheers,

  • @gumbasmut I have the same issue. I'm trying to select the Launchpad from StepSeq menu but I'm not able to do it... Any tips?

  • The buttons dont light when I use user mode 1, help plz??

  • hey man, the cuantization is not perfect, how is the routing to paint notes in the exact cuantization, for example my closed hats aren't in the perfect cuantization, is the routing from the audio you called resample in your video?, hoy do you recorded that?

  • @fokiuraz dude it's "Quantization"...

  • @MattHood you're right sorry, I'm done with it's already working ;)

  • how do you program the user patches?

  • If you don't see Launchpad in the MIDI to window, just hit configure and go into the menu and choose Launchpad. This worked 4 me. I see what you mean about the odd lights flashing in session and mixer modes. It doesn't affect anything but the lights though. Midi mapping an off when session or mixer is pressed is probably the answer there though. You were a bit vague on that point but I think I got it. BLAM!!!!

  • massive kudos m8 never commented on a post before but thought this was well worth logging in for!!!!!!! ................... inspirational :)

    just bought the launchpad 2 days ago this has opened it up even more for me 

  • massive kudos m8 never commented on a post before but thought this was well worth logging in for!!!!!!! ................... inspirational :)

  • when i get to the part to chose "midi to" it has one option which is the drum rack what should i do ?

  • hmm how responsive are the pads compared to an akai lpd8? been thinking to get the launchpad to use with live 8

  • im having trouble with my launchpad crashing on me. it works until i switch back to session view, and then it crashes. is this a problem with my midi syncs? or something else? help by anyone would be appreciated please!

  • Great tuturial dude! Tell me, how do i make the midi steeps?Well i know how to make the notes, but i need to know wich instrument you use! It was operator?Thanks!

  • when i click "MIDI to", launchpad doesn't show up on the list....

  • Are these effects included with the launchpad ?

  • how do you make the resampling?

  • does the software come with the launchpad when u buy it or do u have to buy it separete

  • Nice tuto, thanks from Brazil.

  • I recently updated to intro version 8.2.1 and everything is working as shown above. So either get at least intro or update the launchpad version to 8.2.1. I also learned that the instrument drum rack automatically sets up the 4x4 grid which in the launchpad version you can't do much with drunk rack except use the preexisting drum racks that come with the program.

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  • @AgustinNoesEverythin My luanchpad came with version 8.0.6. You can go to ableton's website and update to 8.2.1 with the ableton lite version I believe.

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  • great vid thanks!

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  • When I play, the keys are scattered all over the place, help?

  • I am new at this so plz dont be rough.

    I add a drum rack from my Beat Bundle CM and the only way i can get anyting to react is to press 4 the lovest triggers on the pad.

    Is it somthing that i am doing wrong ore is it a bug ? i have the newest version of live 8 suite

  • I am new at this so plz dont be rough.

    I add a drum rack from my Beat Bundle CM and the only way i can get anyting to react is to press 4 the lovest triggers on the pad.

    Is it somthing that i am doing wrong ore is it a bug ? i have the newest version of live 8 suite

  • sometimes when I press 2 or more buttons and then release them, some of them won't turn off, how do I solve this? I noticed it didn't happen when I wasn't using the visual stepfeedback. Anyways great tut ^^ check out my cover of Pendulum's Witchcraft, using the Launchpad as a keyboard.

  • Also how did you get your drum sounds in one 4X4 grid? My drum sounds are scattered all over the pad when in user1 mode??

  • Can't get the launchpad to show up in the 'MIDI to' drop down menu. The only thing that seems weird is that in the MIDI port section under prefernces the on button is gray for MIDI output. is this a limitation of the launchpad edition?

  • how do you assign the 'arm' button so you can use it to record bits at a time?

  • Useful, but so much noise in the recording!

  • You never showed how to set the overdub and auto monitor buttons to midi keys on the launchpad.

    Im hitting the pads I saw you use in midi edit mode and nothing is happening.

  • awesome!! i've had a launchpad for months now and have only recently started actually putting it to use. great video.

  • I don't understand what you mean by, "by default, nothing's being sent back to the launchpad " What is the significance of midi routing the midi from the drum rack sent back to the launchpad? Is it just for the light displays?

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  • hey the launchpad just doesn't come up as an option int he midi out box of my empty midi track? is there any reason for this? my only thought is that i'm using the lite version of ableton that came with the launchpad.... :/

  • The launchpad comes with Ableton Live 8: Launchpad edition which lacks drum rack editing and rack editing, would this still be possible?

  • Superb video. I can't wait to get stuck in.

  • nice tutorial:) made it really easy to record drums now. my question is: can i get visual feedback for the knobs assigned at user 2? like those on the mixer-vol ctrl section?

  • Can this be used similar to as the Maschine drum pad?

  • where can i download that drum rack demo?

  • @potzy123 id say get drum samples or kits from sites bro you can find way better ones

  • CAN I SAMPLE

  • i have a problem, i cant choose "launchpad" in my midi clip output. i use abelton live launchpad edition. is it possible with this version or need i full version?

  • @Pumuckel900

    are they greyed out? installing the drivers will solve the problem.

  • @baranelitez it is already working, dunno what was the mistake

  • great tutorial, thanks

    

  • What do you think?

    Akai apc-20 or the Launchpad?

    Real god vid! keep it up :)

  • Great tutorial, thanks!

    However, I did not understand how you managed to "sync" the notes to your quantization. I tries to set the quantization to 1/16 or 1/8, but my midi notes are recorded at the exact moment I pressed them, and not on the nearest 1/16th. Do you have an idea why?

    Cheers

  • @MrRuyer You have to set the "record quantisation" in the edit menu ;)

  • @ejacy you've just seriously blew my mind!

  • novation launchpad is just using ableton live ?

  • @mertcanization No its a generic midi controller that can be used to control any application that receives midi, but novation put a lot effort in making the launchpad integrate into ableton well.

  • when you buy the launchpad does it come with ableton or do you have to buy the software

  • LED 's on the Session View starts to lit on random places, I did the monitor thing , but it didn't work! ):

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  • man how is it possible to have all those visuals in user 1?The buttons are working, but the LED lights don't flash..

  • @plastikmang i have it to!

  • yes good video.

  • Thanks for the metronome tip - that also works with Korg PadKontrol!

  • Im still confused but thanks for having the best video ive found on the subject so far. lol

  • thanks for the tutorial, got LED feedback no problem. question is this: is it just me or are the pads backlit with yellow? i seem to only have amber. is it possible to cycle and choose between the 4 colors?

  • @phiegnux Yeh the default is yellow, adding a velocity fx will allow you to change the pad colours

  • Is the launchpad velocity sensitive?

  • @DJANKdubstep nope

  • @DJANKdubstep No But you can use Velocity to apply Colour of the button

  • @DJANKdubstep though you can randomise velocity slightly within live to make it sound more natural

  • Can you use it with Logic too?

  • I try it but I have some inquiries: 1.- in the steps phase (6:00 for reference), can I put more notes or can I draw the notes for the steps?, you put notes created by you how can I create notes using midi clip. 2.- when I press the drum rack's samples, the LED light doesn't "turns on", like you shows on the video at 0:44 (time for more references). 3.- The visual metronome appears in session mode, is this correct? The metronome LED light changed with the Velocity works perfectly I like that tip

  • Alright I just bought this, and it's probably one of the most complicated pieces of equipment i've ever used. So my first question would be if I can stop and start clips in Session Mode at will, to make a repeating/scratching kind of effect or just random little intros that stop whenever i want them to (usually when I press a green button once and then again, it just does nothing.

  • what kick drum samples are you using?

  • @KizzaKhaz He's using Vengeance Minimal House samples by the look/sound of things :D

  • how to auto quantize midi notes?

  • I'm having trouble setting up the LED feedback. When I send the midi back to the LP the lights get stuck when I play something from drum rack. It doesn't toggle the LED but lights up and stays lit. Any idea ?

  • Problem taken care of, just in case anyone else is wondering the lights will stay lit if your using Live 8.0.6. What you need is the latest version or update it like I did. (8.1.3)

  • @muzicman106 I have the same problem. The lights doesn't flash, they only lights once.

  • Hey man. Can I use this with Logic to record songs? I was just looking at drum machines when I ran into these. I like these as they have much better live implications than normal drum machines. In any case, for example, can I make a drum sequence on here and use that in Logic? Or can I simply use it as a VST in Logic? Thanks

  • Amazing! Thanks for making the vid!

  • how to turn on lights ? i went to drum racks .. choosed kick ... draged it on my audio grid...and pressed user 1 .. then i started to trigger buttons...but no lights :P

  • Thanks for great tutorial.

    I did follow the steps for visual metronome, and it does come up in user1 mode. But if I switch back to the session mode, 4 random buttons blink and it's very annoying. Can I set up visual metronome in session mode?

  • I'm having a lot of trouble getting the MIDI out to launchpad to work. im getting a lot of hanging lights, as in they stick around after i hit a drum, rather than only appearing while pressure is put onto the pads. any ideas?

  • @RobertDavid Hey, I got the same on my launchpad. How did you solve this?

  • how do you get the looping in that view? i can only seem to find the 1,2. 4 and 8 bar loops not like yours where its in 1 go.. how do you get it in that view??

  • thats a lot of steps for...visual feedback? eh.

  • Can you assign 4 different drum racks all in a different 4x4 square of the Launchpad? If so could someone make a tutorial?

  • Awesome!!

  • Great video thx!

  • in user1 mode, all the notes should be MIDI channel1 right? for some reason I have notes on channel 5 in user1 mode and it really limits the ways I can set up multiple keyboards thru live

  • Its just a bug in 8.0.x, download 8.1.x and all will be well :-)

  • I'm actually on 8.1.0. Can't exactly upgrade to 8.1.1 :X