Operation ReLaunch

     Most of my project is slated to be about the technical side of the soundboard, but while it's still a fresh new item for me, I wanted to play around with it a little.  I gained some minor insights from these experiences.  First of all, there's a keyboard preset that tries to map the buttons of the launchpad like a real keyboard.      This layout is the best possible arrangement for traditional uses for midi devices.  I used it to read music and play like I would on a piano.  It's definitely far more awkward than a traditional midi device for that use case because of the jumps between octaves.  It also has redundant keys for 3 of the Cs, and wastes 12 more buttons to try to evoke the shape of white and black keys.     The other 2 layouts arrange the midi notes in 4 groups of 4.  It's a more efficient use of all 64 buttons on the launchpad, but vertically splits the launchpad in 2, making the experience of pla...

     Going blindly into this class, I'm told I can do whatever I want.  I'm completely and utterly lost, so I spend a lot of time brainstorming and come up with a super cool idea: I'll integrate two software together to make the most impressive project of all.     That's what happened last year.  My ambition wanted me to make this great project, and then I practically ignored the project the whole semester.  In my defense, I was taking 3 of the hardest classes in my life concurrently and I was just a college freshman, but in the end, nothing came out of it.     Now I'm back, not with a vengeance, but incredibly humbled.  So this time I'm going to start with an idea that's not do or die - something that I can manage one step at a time.  Something that plays to my strengths in programming while allowing me to branch out into creativity.  Something that will be simple, but unique and useful.     Or , I could buy tha...