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Novation Launchpad for Ableton Live

Written by markkus on October 1st, 2009 51 Comments

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by Markkus Rovito

Today Novation announced a new Ableton Live controller called Launchpad, and DJ Tech Tools got  an advance look at one of the first units available. What one might consider a poor man’s APC-40, the Launchpad ($199US) anchors itself around and 8-by-8 grid of 64 buttons for launching clips and scenes from Ableton Live’s Session view, while a Mixer mode gives you ready access to track volume, pan, Send A/B amount, mute, solo and record enable. Read on to decide if you should blast off or abort mission.

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