Novation Launchkey: Reassigning Pads?

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aus9
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Novation Launchkey: Reassigning Pads?

Post by aus9 » Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:47 am

So I just bought a Novation Launchkey. I plan to use it in MIDI mode, not "InControl" mode which has limited flexibility. Everything is mapped the way I want it, except for the pads. In my live set, I have a track full of samplers which I play with a MIDI keyboard throughout the performance. The Launchkey has 16 pads which I would like to assign to various transitional loops and SFX.

The pads on the Launchkey, while in MIDI mode, send note on/off messages. They range from around C1~D#2. I don't want that, because if I were to assign the pads to trigger clips, then these clips would get triggered every time I hit that particular key on the keyboard. Anybody got an idea of how to address this issue?

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aus9
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Re: Novation Launchkey: Reassigning Pads?

Post by aus9 » Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:54 am

Got this figured out. The default MIDI channel for the keys is 1, but the default MIDI channel for the pads is 10. So, selecting "MIDI from" Channel 1 on my sampler track fixed this.

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