What the heck is going on in the crazy Novation video demo? How do I do that myself?
There isn’t any Max patch or other voodoo in the video demo from Novation. It’s all just a standard Ableton Live set, and the fact that the Launchpad responds to MIDI messages as well as sending them (something useful if you’re scripting the Launchpad in software other than Ableton, too). Matt Derbyshire of Novation put together the video. Matt’s an interesting guy musically when not working for Novation, too – he’s part of a DJ Shadow cover band, for one. He shares with CDM how he went about this: It’s actually a very simple session. 1) There are four clips only for drums in the drumrack channel 2) Each clip is pre-recorded but EMPTY at 1 bar length 3) These four clips are the first four clips in session mode but for convenience I also learned these to to User 1 mode bottom four left buttons. Basically setting this up removes the need to rush back to session mode to drop out of record 4) Obviously quantize is on ‘cos my playing ain’t that great. LED feedback In User 1 mode the bottom
