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I've recently started using the Novation Launchpad with Abelton. I'm having fun- but the effects thing confuses me. I've learnt how to stack effects racks multiband - but I can't seem to work out how I'm able to control my effects entirely with just my lanchpad.

Can anybody shed any light?
Thank you.

P.s - when I originally played around with the LP - I had the set up that every time you press a button under the row currently playing, it will stop the row above from playing immediately. Just recently this is no longer the case. I'm not quite sure what I've done wrong...?

Allan2356 wrote:I've recently started using the Novation Launchpad with Abelton. I'm having fun- but the effects thing confuses me. I've learnt how to stack effects racks multiband - but I can't seem to work out how I'm able to control my effects entirely with just my lanchpad.

Can anybody shed any light?

Go to the page on the launchpad where you want to assign controls from. Press MIDI in top right of Live. Click the control you want to map (ie. Cutoff frequency, wet/dry knob or whatevs). Hold down one button on the LP - and press another if you don't just want an on/off switch.

You can map buttons on any page on the LP, but you will lose the original functionality of those buttons.

Allan2356 wrote:P.s - when I originally played around with the LP - I had the set up that every time you press a button under the row currently playing, it will stop the row above from playing immediately. Just recently this is no longer the case. I'm not quite sure what I've done wrong...?

Two ways (at least) of doing this:
1. Set Global Quantization (in the transport area) to "none". Set Clip Quantization to whatever you want it to. Use empty clip slots as stop buttons.

2. The "stop button" could be an empty clip with Clip Quantization set to none, rather than an empty slot.

Clip Quantization can be found by clicking the small L while one or more clips are selected:


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Thank you for the help

I've changed all the clips to 'none' - though I still have the same problem. I'm not quite sure what I've done or changed for things to be different. I just need the clip underneath a row of clips, to act as an immediate mute.

Once again thank you.

Allan2356 wrote:Thank you for the help

My pleasure

Allan2356 wrote:I've changed all the clips to 'none' - though I still have the same problem. I'm not quite sure what I've done or changed for things to be different. I just need the clip underneath a row of clips, to act as an immediate mute.

Once again thank you.

Yeah, that won't work. The stop buttons follow global quantization settings.


So either set global to none and the individual clips to 1 bar, then use empty clip slots as stop buttons,

or

use empty clips set to none with global set to 1 bar as "stop buttons". In this case, you don't actually stop the clip, but you immediately switch to a clip with no actions in it when you press buttan.

If you need a mute button rather than a stop clip button, you could MIDI map buttons on the session view on the LP to the On/Off button on the channels. I do personally prefer stopping clips, rather than muting channels, but maybe it's better for you.

I'll try both - thanks again