LauchPlay is a tiny sequencer for use with a Novation LaunchPad controller in any DAW supporting VST plugins. It currently runs on Mac OS X (10.5 or later) and Windows 7. Your DAW must support VST v2.4.
There currently are three plugins:
- LaunchPlaySequencer: a VSTi sequencing notes using Novation LauchPad as a remote controller,
- LaunchPlayMidiFilter: a mandatory VST effect that can help you filtering MIDI messages to retain only one channel, only if needed,
- LaunchPlayVirtualCable: an useful VST effect that greatly simplify MIDI "wiring" between the sequencer and your virtual (or physical) instruments.
LaunchPlay is a generative sequencer for use with your LaunchPad, inspired by Batuhan Bozkurt's work on Otomata. It turns your Novation LaunchPad into a fancy remote to generate random music. And you can generate notes for up to 8 virtual or physical instruments. Please visit sample-hold.github.io for a detailed explanation on how to use it.
The available sources require two third-parties libraries :
There are two projects ready for use :
- LaunchPlayVST.xcodeproj: for Mac OS X, requires XCode 4,
- LaunchPlayMIDIEffect.sln: for Windows, requires Visual C++ 2010.
Please feel free to contact me for any help on installing and compiling these sources.
This work belongs to Fred Ghilini and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Otomata is an intellectual property owned by Batuhan Bozkurt. VST is an intellectual property owned by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. LaunchPad is intellectual property owned by Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited and Ableton AG.
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