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Novation Launchpad...nice, nice
I'm just testing this app and I found this very promising and IAP are not expensive. If Novation add a reverb, record IAA/Audiobus in Launchpad, Audioshare and midi clock this app can be great. Something between Loopy and Ableton Live session view...mmmmmm
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I recently got the Launchpad Mini HW controller to go with it (and the Launchkey Mini). It's a lot of fun and the recent improvements to the FX are great. It just needs to be syncable with other apps.
Also, I haven't been able to connect to the store from within the app for the last couple of days. They've just released a couple of new soundpacks - but I can't get at them
It's one of my favourite apps on ios but i recording directly in to clips would be sweet. What do mean by Audio Share? You can open in... directly from AS.
Oh I didn't know that. Can I record in AS and then open in Launchpad? Not bad:)
The store is working fine for me xen
Yeah a tempo sync with perhaps the Traktor app would be awesome combo.
Cheers, have you installed the latest update from the other day? I haven't been able to connect since then. I'll try rolling back to an older version later to see if that sorts it out.
Strange, connected to iFunbox and it started working again before I backed it up. Anyone know if you can back up your patches? The iTunes folder only contains recordings or imported samples.
@xen Had trouble connecting to the store from the phone, but not my iPad...
@Johnny - it's all working fine now. I was happily able to get the Hardstyle pack (guilty pleasure) and waste a few hours playing around with bass drops and gate fx. Guess the store must have been playing up. When you add a launchpad it makes it a really useful app.
I didn't realise you could use your own samples with this - how does it work - are they time stretched to fit, or do you get a sample editing option? Is there a max sample length?
Import samples is a IAP and you can use Audioshare open in or Audiocopy/dropbox in the edit pads page. When you import you must put the samples bpm in Launchpad or create specific folders with bpm in dropbox. No idea about the sample length yet but 2 bars works ok at the moment:)
No time stretch. Gotta watch the bpm.
For me, the flaw of this app is the fact that a fair bit of work needs to be done to import your own samples so that they are all in the same tempo and key. Mix and matching from packs doesn't work very well for the same reason.
I do like it, but i think it needs more work to get something that sounds unique from it's source sounds. Saying that, the FX are great.
i think they are holding back deliberately, cause timestretch, follow actions, and not having to jump through bpm hoops would push this app over edge upon edge upon edge
Is nice, I like it but need some work.I can't save the session and importing samples overwrite de current session.
On the timestretch thing, what is it people want to do that you can 't do already? If you import a loop and specify the length in beats and the tempo you can add it to a session of a different tempo and it plays back at the original pitch and is faster or slower depending on the session tempo.
Admittedly, if you are working with stuff you sampled that could be a problem if you don't know the bpm or the length, but if you are using it to cue loops that you have put together yourself it works fine.
Of course, I'm not saying more sophisticated options wouldn't be a bonus and very welcome.
^ +1
Thanks for the replies. Think I'll play with the free version for a while, see if I like it and if so I'll get the IAP
BM2 -- with its timestretch (as well as its pitch-shifting, if you prefer), eight banks of pads per instrument (and around 10 octaves of key slots), lots of polyphony, customizable looping per sample and project, chopping, the pitch/BPM scaling, 128 mute groups, bulk Dropbox importing, drag-and-drop to pads/keys, deeper (per sample) automation than most of its kind, and Multi Mode, which allows batch editing of samples -- is still the best (IMO) imitator of basic Ableton functionality, especially if you want to treat the pads like clip launchers (check for Mannie Fresh video). Setting the repeat to a slower quantize can help keep things aligned if you're live-launching parts/loops on the pads.
I mean, it's not even a close comparison to Live, I realize, but BM2 is still deeper and broader than any other sample editor/looper/launcher on iOS. #objectivity
It even already has a follow action(!) -- the hold and loop option ... Yeah, a technicality, I know.
I love an underdog, but hopefully Auria Pro and BM3 can let us put these other marginal contenders back in the cloud, Game Theory and legacy hardware brands be damned!
Well, actually, I'd like to see what Electrify NXT can do on its next iteration, since it followed the Ableton path most closely (automatic timestretching/warping per clip, session view, a slicer, a synth, a dedicated drum track...).
+1 on NxT
and I have no idea why the beatshuffler dev hasn't updated beatshuffler, that's just a payday waiting to happen
does launchpad have a way to capture a performance from within the app that you can edit after the fact yet?
@parallaxobject - yeah, launchpad has a way to go, I thought people were saying they could only play back imports at the original tempo
No. For me , if they added basic MIDI it would take a huge leap forward. Including clock send and receive.
and of course Novation is capable so I don't know what the hold up is, I don't think they're worried about stepping on abletons toes cause we are talking about ios here and even if they added those things they would still be far from abletons territory so I would like to know what is the freakin deal.....Novation please tell us, pretty please?
It seems to me that a lot (not all) of the more established software/hardware companies don't really take the iOS platform seriously. Similarly with iMaschine, Novation are happy to provide the most basic sample players and then harvest easy cash via IAP sound libraries.
I'm sure they have the technology to turn this into something amazing but development, support and updating costs probably mean the profit from a proper musicians tool, will be less than a simple player for disco boys.
Yet we should not lose hope. I wait and see
Yeah, I agree with what @monzo said, I'm sure they could make this a 'killer app', but they seem content to sell itas a platform for their packs (primarily)
I'd say this likely started as a way to provide an app/content to go with their Launchpad Mini controller ... ditto on their keyboard app that maps with their hardware. Even though they're an established brand, this Launchpad app is new territory for them, as I think they've only made controllers and synths in the past (not DAWs, grooveboxes, samplers or any kind of loop launcher).
just wanted to add that the iphone version doesnt have ability to change bpm (lame) and as some of you already know, your own audio sample import is only available on ipad version. but with that being said, there is time stretch and you have ability to record.
The IAP "House Of Blues" is worth every penny! Freakin' nice and soulful! Like!!!