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Magic Tone Network for Launchpad Pro

A custom firmware for Launchpad Pro

Not yet made famous by allround nice guy Andreas from Xpresspads fingerdrumming: the Magic Tone Network. It is a non linear layout for pad controllers, based on music theory. It helps to find interesting chords and might be a better alternative to regular pad layouts, even scaled ones.

Installation

• turn on your launchpad pro holding the setup key
• upload the .syx file in the build directory with your favorite sysex tool
• done

Usage

Press a key and play a little melody.

• All keys (except setup) play a note in the network.
• The round buttons on the launchpad are not velocity sensitive and don't send aftertouch. I set the default velocity for those keys to 40, which seems better to me than 127.
• The pressed key and the other keys that play the same note light up white.
• the bottom leftmost pad is C1.
• See information about the range in this spreadsheet
• The pink pads indicate octaves for F#.
• the turqoise pads indicate octaves for B.
• alternating columns are darkened slightly in blue, to indicate the inversions.
• Velocity and aftertouch are transmitted as is, which means that there are no settings and that aftertouch starts immediately vs. after a little press in the original firmware

Plans

• make this respond to Synthesia so I can learn to play the songs I already know on the piano
• add settings for transpose and octave up-down (in setup)
• stretch goal: scale highlighting, with scales from Novation Circuit
• add controls for velocity and aftertouch sensitivity,
• stretch goal: add velocity calibration per pad
• add a way to use one pad for modulation via aftertouch
• add pitch bend, implemented similarly to OP-1
• stretch goal: add more refined pitch bend, with pressure and velocity response
• make the color scheme nicer
• stretch goal: customizable colors
• ultra stretch goal: clean up code

Modifying and building

• I used docker so: docker build -t novation-launchpad-pro-dev . docker run -it -v $(pwd):/launchpad-pro novation-launchpad-pro-dev make
• everything I did is in app.c
• No, I don't know what I'm doing half the time
• for more info: see Novation LPP open firmware on github