Using the Launchpad for Evil | 1.2

    A launchpad is a huge set of customizable buttons.  A soundboard is a program that can play a huge array of sounds.  It seems only natural to mix the two, to enable me to terrorize my friends on discord.  I looked into it a little and followed this guide.

    This was basically supposed to be a fun side project, but it's actually really useful and there's a good chance some of this will be useful later.  First of all, it showed me the integration between the launchpad and ableton live.

    The trick here was to drag in a drum rack component. The drum rack seems to be designed specifically to work alongside the launchpad.  It translates from the midi signals while corresponding exactly to the grid.  I can basically conclude that I can use Ableton Live for any musical effect.  It doesn't seem to be able to change the button colors or to use the midi notes to trigger something besides sound.

    The guide also introduced me to another very useful tool: Voicemeeter.

    Voicemeeter is an extremely convenient and cheap way to manage audio.  What I'm using it for in this instance is routing the output audio from Ableton Live back into my input audio so I can play these sound effects over discord and other voice chatting programs.  No matter what I end up doing, this can't not be useful.