Novation Launchpad

The Ableton Live Controller

Jointly designed by Ableton and Novation, Launchpad places Ableton Live at your fingertips. Whether you’re a DJ, performing musician or studio producer, Launchpad gives you all you need to truly ‘play' Live.

Launchpad is ultra-portable. It is USB bus powered (no need for power sockets), and weights in at just 717gms (one third the weight of a macbook!).

With a multi-colour 64-button grid and dedicated scene launch buttons, Launchpad is purpose built for triggering and manipulating clips in Live, it also offers a totally new way of controlling Ableton Live’s mixer. Launchpad's buttons can be used to sketch out beats with drum racks, and they can be assigned to other functions in Live using Ableton's 'Learn' mode.

Launchpad ships with a dedicated ‘Launchpad edition’ of Ableton Live 8, but can control almost any other music software using Novation's award-winning 'Automap' control software.

Launchpad is ultra-portable. It is USB bus powered (no need for external power sockets), and weights in at just 717gms, which is a third the weight of a macbook!

This makes it perfect for sketching ideas out on the move, or a lightweight but powerful performance controller.

Mixer mode, and triggering notes

In mixer mode you can arm, solo and mute tracks. Four different pages give you access to volume, send levels and pan using rows of buttons as faders.

You can mix as many tracks as you want, as Launchpad lets you jump across to the next 8 tracks with the 'page' buttons.

The buttons will also trigger notes in Live's instruments and drum racks.

You can sketch out beats, bass-lines and trigger samples using Launchpads 64 buttons.