Keys, Synths & Samplers

[Igglethorpe]

Does anyone know if you can use those shiny blinking pads for DAWs other than Live?  I use Cubase exclusively and am considering picking up this controller if I can map those pads to trigger loops / tracks / whatever I want in Cubase.

Anyone have any experience doing this with their Launchpad product perhaps?

[Meatball Fulton]

The pads on a Launchpad just send MIDI msgs, the lights are controlled by MIDI msgs sent back from the host. So in one sense they are totally generic.

I'm sure Launchkeys will come with a Cubase template out of the box, though what it will let you do is anyone's guess at this point.

Novation has not yet posted a user's manual or other documentation online.

[delaware dave]

what's interesting is that the Launchkey is touted to be a MIDI controller yet offers no traditional

MIDI IN/OUT/THRU connectors.

[Meatball Fulton]

Well what do you call a MIDI controller that only has USB connections?

[George321]

It looks pretty cool!! But no ''classical'' midi IN/ midi OUT Connections.

[Igglethorpe]

Decided against this  controller and picked up an MPK88 and MPK61.  I love the simplicity of these controllers and am finding them very simple to map in Cubase.  No drivers or otherwise "magic" happening with Automap or other special mapping software confusing the issue when something doesn't appear to work correctly.