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[rasmusfris]

Hi all .. just want to hear if there are any news about the direct launcpad support ? I am very curious about it ...
Thanks Rasmus

[Jeff]

Sorry for the delay...

To enable the Launchpad support you will have to edit the mobius.xml file
and add this line inside the <MobiusConfig> element.

<ControlSurface name='launchpad'/>

For example, the mobius.xml file should start with a bunch of stuff
like this:

<MobiusConfig midiInput='.......
...and go on for a few lines and eventually end with midiConfig='something'>

Put the <ControlSurface element after the > that closes off the start
tag of MobiusConfig. Let me know if you need help with this.


Once you do this you also need to add the Lauchpad MIDI device as both
an input and output device if you're running standalone. If you're running
as a VST you need to connect the Mobius MIDI pins to the Launchpad
in the host.

Now when you start Mobius you should see the Launchpad flash,
the four arrow buttons at the top will be green (they don't do anything yet)
the session button will be yellow (meaning selected) and the other
three round buttons will be green. This is the "session" page.

In the session page each column in the grid represents a track and each
row represents a loop in the track. The buttons don't do anything yet
but they should light up to show how many loops you have configured
in each track.

Pressing the "user1" and "user2" will take you to the two user definable
button pages, these don't work yet but the intent here is to let you assign
functions to the two banks of 64 buttons. Other options are to set
parameters using a row of buttons.

The only thing that acually does something interesting is the "mixer" page.
This works close to the way it works in live. There are four sub-pages
in the mixer page indicated by the arrow buttons on the right. The first
one controls the track output levels, again each column represents a track,
each row is an output level, press the middle button to drop it to level
71 for example.

The mixer sub-page "pan" controls track pan. The middle two rows represent "center" and the upper and lower buttons move pan left and right.

The mixer sub-page "snd A" controls track feedback in the same way
that the vol page controls level.

The mixer sub-page "snd B" controls secondary feedback.


That's it for now, I'll be adding to this from time to time. The first thing
will be loop triggering from the session page. I'm also thinking about
adding a "Cue" function like Live so the arrow buttons on the right of the
session page work the same.

[rasmusfris]

Thanks a lot for the exact explanation Jeff!
Very exiting, I will try it all out tomorrow.......and hopefully come up with some usefull feedback....
Rasmus

[rasmusfris]

Hi Jeff, just did try it out with the Launchpad all seem to work fine, except that the visual led feedback does not update unless I switch to another view from.... vol to pan and back to vol , then it updates fine with the right values.
Rasmus

[Jeff]

Thanks, I'll look into that.

Out of curiosity, how does the yellow look on your Launchpad?
It is made by combining Red and Green and on mine there is
enough variance in brightness that Yellow looks really "splotchy".
Some are yellow, others more orange, and some a really pale green.

[rasmusfris]

Hi Jeff, I did try the Launcpad on my music-laptop and the launcpad do work perfect here ?? strange...I will try to look into my setup´s of both machines..
About the colours they actually looks pretty even also when showing yellow. ... I can mail a photo is you like ?

nr1. wishlist for launcpad:

Feedback of blinker´s loop-cycle-subcycle

An idea for a page layout with 8 column could be:

subcycle blinker
cycle blinker
loop blinker
mute
overdub
play
rec
select

Ok maybe no very exotic...but basic functionality.. :-) would be great to have a visual feedback of these parameters..

But I guess that a good flexible way could be a user defineable table with the option to link the led (colour) feedback to the midi control configuration.
Colour could be scaled in relation to velocity or cc value...

I did read a post here on the forum with an idea like this.....

Anyway Thanks Jeff ... the launchpad seem to work just fine by now......and has endless possibilities ...
..... Rasmus

[jonmiz]

Has there been any progress on Launchpad support with the fancy flashing lights? It's great to be able to just have 64 buttons, but I feel like I am wasting a lot of the visual functionality built into the controller. Please let me know if this is on the horizon, or if maybe there's a more recent thread about this I missed.

[Jeff]

Launchpad support has stalled, mostly because to get the most out of it I need to provide a rather complicated user interface to let you configure what you want the buttons to do. I got side tracked on other things, currently I'm more
interested in fleshing out OSC support for use with TouchOSC.

I'll return to the Launchpad eventually, because I paid for one and it's
just sitting here useless. But I can't say when that will be.

[jonmiz]

Yeah, I just discovered Touch OSC and was thinking that its way more amazing than the Launchpad is. For now I am using Automap and just assigning plugin parameters for my custom config. It works well, but it really uses like only a small percentage of the Launchpad's potential. It also sucks that with Automap you can't assign colors, so I am stuck with a single color for a certain type of control mode. I don't get why they couldn't just have a color and brightness setting so you can customize the appearance. Oh well.

I am running Mobius in Live on a PC, and I haven't really figured out how to get it TouchOSC to work using my new HTC Inspire smartphone. I think all the tutorials and programs that allow you to use the two together are Mac based. Do you know of any "bridge" software for PC that works? I'd like to try this out.