Performances on the launchpad
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...