My Models

Launchpad project Examples

    The launchpad is a brilliant piece of technology, beloved by many.  This means that plenty of people have done all sorts of cool things with them and shared them in all sorts of ways.

YouTube

    It may not be the most technical way to document your work, but making YouTube videos is a great way to make your work into popular content.  I'll start by going through a couple examples I appreciate.

Composerily makes impressive visual performances with their launchpad.  Each song has a unique layout of notes and a unique visual effect.  The respective visual effects of each notes even seem to change between notes.  All this is to say that I can pursue live performance or tools for others to create their own performance with confidence that it will be a cool project.

Peers

    Aaron Lockwood did an interesting project on the launchpad in this class last year.  I don't really intend on doing something similar to what he did, but his work is useful to look at.  He used chuck as the main program, which I am liable to copy, since that seems like the easiest way to deal in the midi messages I need to send and receive between the hardware and my PC.  With a little bit of tactful copying I can speed my way through phase 2 and 3 and jump straight into phase 4, where my project becomes unique and interesting.

Project Archives

    I started in the ICMC archive by searching "launchpad".  It yielded a single result: one article about the game a Band is Born, which was a game to gradually teach someone how to use Max/msp.  Why did it come up when I searched launchpad?  Because it cited that the users "had used controllers such as the Novation Launchpad".  So that was a bust.

    The NIME archives aren't much better, with zero results for launchpad right off the bat.

    Time to broaden my search.  The launchpad is just a particular midi controller, so why don't I search for midi? That yielded a lot of interesting results, but they all are above my paygrade and irrelevant.

Click me for a tool to use midi to perform non-modal music.

Click me to see a cool, less-than-unique midi controller.

Click me to see some high-level analysis of midi.

Click me to see a DJ performance system

Click me to see a midi controller mapper for Unity's Audio Mixer