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2 hours later and nobodies interested? I think they'll still sell like hot cake anyway.
(I'm going to learn how to bake to take advantage of the hot cake market, apparently recession proof)

If they ahd made those pads velocity sensitive to allow for Push-like functionality then I think more people would be interested.

Brighter LED's ?? and how can a controller be "Faster"?
these aren't features. this is marketing.
...really bad marketing though...

and of course it's gonna be more expencive, than the old one...

...i mean seriously, in these Videos, there's nothing that can't be done with the old Launchpad.

Don't get me wrong, I love my Launchpad, but this doesn't seem to have any real advantage. Brighter lights is nice but not worth paying 150GBP to replace my current one for. If I was buying new anyway I'd probably wait for it I guess.

I also reckon a velocity (and aftertouch) sensitive version would sell though, even if it cost a fair bit more.

RGB leds or sensitive padw would have been a cool upgrade, this not.

it can be faster.
the old one has some limtations on update time.
but I agree - we all dreamed of velocity sensitive pads, but this did not happen

yeah not really much of a step up from the last one.

Not a big enough difference to matter.

no velocity pads? total missed opportunity Novation

The brighter leds could be make me buy it. Actually i don't care about push or full RGB leds. im running a max patch alongside my 2 LPs anyway, cause the way it works out of the box seems stupid to me. But i've been really annoyed with the leds' brightness when playing outdoor, and i was about to build a DYI controller, mainly because of this. So...maybe these little chinese children made it cheaper ?
I am also curious to know in what way it's supposed to be more 'non-ableton' friendly. I guess it's still non-programmable, and honestly, this is a massive shame.

This is a pretty underwhelming update.

It would have been cool if there was velocity sensitivity, actual RGB pads, some advanced scale/chord and other MIDI functionality. It would have been cool if it had been a lite version of Push just like Launchpad 1 was a lite version of the APC40.

But NO!

We got brighter LEDs with faster responsie times... YAY!

to be fair, the poor response time was the major flaw in the last version.