![]() ![]() Lost? Stay with me, it all gets clearer in a moment. The padding does allow for some extra chords and scales which the specialists may use – more waaay down. You only need one variation for each chord – and did it take time for me to realize that. This is an important point: use the same pattern all over the Launchpad, only shifted to the proper base note only when the lowest note in the chord is in the right half of the Launchpad, you use the variation. As soon as the lowest note of the chord reaches the right half of the Launchpad – what I call the Grip Change Zone – you use the variation. The good news: The padding means that you have to learn only one chord pattern, and one variation, for major and minor chords, and for each of the two inversions. The padding gives you alternative ways to play some chords. The five-column layout means that you have to learn scales and chords in variations depending not only on the chord/scale you play but also on the octave you are in – a C1maj chord and a D1maj differ in fingering, a C1maj chord is played differently from a C2maj chord. The padding in each row is used to mirror the first three notes of the row above – meaning that 21 notes are doubled. It is similar to the standard tuning of a guitar, where the first four strings are also tuned in fourths. Pressing a pad, and the one directly above it, gives you a fourth interval – hence “Chromatic Fourths” layout. The remainder of the Launchpad’s 64 pads are used as wrap-around padding, “overlap” in Novation parlance. The Note Mode wraps these 12 notes around 5 columns, which gives you 40 notes – actually 43 – which is three and a half octaves. the basic pattern for playable notes) consists of 12 half-tone notes per octave. Layout basicsĪs you know, a chromatic scale in Western music (i.e. This is the default keyboard mode for the Launchpad Pro: It is what you get when you press the “Note” key using it with Ableton Live, or when you switch on the Launchpad with a MIDI connector inserted. “Note Mode” – Chromatic fourths, five-column layout I am also ignoring the theoretical possibility to use the buttons around the 8×8 pad grid as well this is all for playing notes on the 8×8 pad grid only. I’ll focus on the most common layout, briefly touching another. There are different possibilities to use the Launchpad Pro as a keyboard. This document is supposed to give you that same kind of start. This helped me produce the first harmonies, just like someone learning the first chords on a guitar. When I started discovering synthesizers, I got myself a table of the basic minor and major chords and their inversions. The few musical skills I use these days are mostly self-taught. I am not much of a musician, nor do I know that much musical theory. These considerations and patterns are supposed to make learning easier. The Launchpad is a new instrument you have to relearn the movements of your fingers. Last summer, I borrowed a Launchpad to take along on my holiday, and fell in love with it.
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