Using the Edit button, you can tap on any pad and change its sample with something else in the library, or create and name entirely new templates from scratch. The Launchpad App Edit Screen with FX buttons showing. There are 369 total loop and one-shot samples included, spanning drum & percussion loops, bass, lead & melodic synths, and a few acoustic instruments.
The template determines which of the samples from the included Loopmasters sound pack are used for the 48 virtual pads. The Launchpad App home screen with in-app sound pack purchasing.įrom the home screen, you can start a session with one of eight templates – Breaks, Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Hip Hop, House 1/2, Tech House, and Trance – and set the tempo from 60 to 240 BPM before launching the session. There’s also a selection of 16 stutter and LFO filter effects that apply to the master output. One might think that it would be a wireless controller, but in fact, it’s a loop and one-shot sampling machine that lets you quickly create music beds of up to 8 tracks, each with volume, and filter controls. It mimics the look and some of the functionality of the Launchpad S hardware controller, the Launchpad App is a different beast. LAUNCHPAD APP – SOLO Launchpad app’s Trigger view with Filter faders showing.
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Own an iPad and don’t have have these Launch apps? You might as well download them right now for free, then read on and decide if pairing them with their economical hardware controllers makes sense for you. The controllers are USB-powered from a computer or an iPad, and in fact they must be hardwired to the iPad to work no connecting over WiFi. Both the Novation Launchkey keyboard controller and Launchpad S button controller interact directly with the apps when connected to an iPad via Apple’s Camera Connection Kit. However, the next layer of the onion involves you hooking up the apps to their hardware counterparts of the same name. They also work in tandem, so you can play the Launchkey app’s sounds over the Launchpad app’s loops and even sync the Launchkey arpeggiator to the Launchpad’s master tempo.
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THE LAUNCH OF NOVATION IPAD APPSīoth the Launchpad app and Launchkey app – for the iPad only – are free to download and work perfectly well on their own as a sample looping/layering and synthesizer app respectively.
Because the apps are free and the controllers stand on their own, this new synergy is bonus to users to decide how much or little to do with them. The Bottom Line: Novation has created a miniature iPad music studio that benefits from connecting a hardware controller to create options for the user to decide when the touchscreen or hardware works best. Powering a controller off the iPad and using these two intensive apps simultaneously drains the battery fast. No WiFi connection between the iPad and the controllers. Switching between apps with four-finger swipes often results in unwanted changes. Very short learning curve, just practice makes perfect. The two apps sync to each other and run simultaneously. Great sounds from both the Launchpad sample pack and the Launchkey synthesizer. The Good: Free apps integrate seamlessly with the hardware controllers. Requirements: iPad running iOS 5.0.1 or later. Price: Free, with additional Launchpad sound packs for $2.99 each Reviewed: Novation Launchpad App and Launchkey App ( on iTunes) There’s much to dig into, click to read on. Novation’s entries into the iPad software/hardware market, the Launchpad and Launchkey apps, explores a modular kind of system where the apps can work separately, together, or seamlessly with connected controllers. At NAMM this year, we saw no new DJ hardware from Novation – no Twitch 2.0, no Nocturn refresh – instead they’ve focused on the production side of things.
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