Update, July 2022: New firmware version 2.0 for Launchpad X introduces the exciting Custom Mode keystroke widget
Made to perform
Launchpad X is Novation's essential 64pad 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.
Update: November 18th, 2020: Launchpad Becomes the Most Integrated Grid Controller for Logic Pro.
Features:
- 64 RGB pads: Large RGB velocity and pressure-sensitive pads give you a perfect reflection of your Ableton Live session, making it easier than ever to see your clips and play your instruments expressively
- Ableton Live Integration: Quickly launch clips and scenes, never lose ideas with Capture MIDI, and access performance controls like stop, solo, mute, record arm, volume, pan, and sends to dynamically control your music, no mouse needed
- Dynamic Note and Scale modes: Enable you to effortlessly play perfectly in-key basslines, melodies, chords and leads. Launchpad X even knows when you’re drumming and shows your drum rack on the grid
- Four Custom Modes: Use Novation Components to customize mappings and control anything MIDI easily from Launchpad X
- Get Started Easily: Use our online Easy Start tool to get all the software you want, and step-by-step video guides to get you set up with Live and making music in minutes
Launchpad X & Live Loops in Logic Pro
Live Loops brings cell-based looping playback and performance to Logic Pro. With Launchpad X as your Live Loops controller, use cells to sketch out arrangement ideas, fast, and record your performances. Setup is automatic: just select your Launchpad from Logic’s Control Surface Setup. There are orientation options in Logic’s settings that allow you to choose vertical or rotated arrangement, to suit your preference. (Logic Pro 10.6 is required.)
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
Express yourself
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. Never worry about being out of key–Dynamic Note and Scale modes let you easily play perfectly in-key basslines, melodies, chords and leads. Novation's most responsive velocity-sensitive pads with polyphonic aftertouch let you play your instruments dynamically and expressively. Step back from the screen, get hands-on and dive into your tracks.
Make it yours
Go deeper and get Launchpad X working the way you want. Use Novation Components to customize MIDI mappings, and control almost anything; four custom modes mean you can design how this essential grid controller works for you. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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.
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