How To Make Music With Novation Launchpad - A Quick Start Guide!

In this video, Mark from Novation shows us how you can create and write music with any Novation Launchpad. This is how you can create a track from scratch with launchpad.

In this easy to follow tutorial, we find out how to create drum loops add, sounds and create full songs! 0:47 - How to Drag and drop drums and create drum tracks in Launchpad
2:50 - Using drum rack and expanding drum racks in Launchpad
3:05 - Adding reverb to drums and percussion
3:18 - Grouping and processing drum tracks and adding EQ
3:49 - Adding drum loop to project in Launchpad
4:14 - Adding bass to Launchpad
5:00 - Recording Variations in bass
5:16 - Chord mode in Launchpad
5:56 - Recording chords into a project
6:19 - Layer chords into a pad sound
6:36 - Layer chords into piano stabs
7:02 - Filter splice by key and scale, add additional layers to project

Thank you to Mark Lowes fro helping us out with this incredible quick start guide and launchpad songwriting tutorial!

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[jonathanrice]

This has to be the best tutorial I have ever seen for this, thank you.

[DJMikeron]

In you Tube everything’s looks so easy :) thx for the Video.

[RadicalSurgeMusic]

Glad to have found your channel! I always wanted to do stuff like this live!

[andycordy]

Thank you for this. It's a big help. I'm sorry the introduction of chord mode is only 20 seconds, no indication how you set up b min as the chord or the basic layout.

[-couldbebetter-]

All I can hear in the beginning is “boots & cats”

No but for real I haven’t even finished the video and you’ve already given me a better understanding on how to use this thing

[truckervance]

Can this be used to record audio clips from a PC to store and play back in a podcast?

[andrewmoody]

So incredibly overwhelming. I think this was a good tutorial, my musical background stopped at high school band like a decade ago though lol so all I know is “sheet music says this, play this”. Do you have a degree in music theory/how did you learn all this info that goes behind creating music in the first place? If you asked me to put chords together or create a melody I’d be lost, much less doing it on this. I wanted to buy one but think I’d just be out of my element, makes me appreciate the pros that much more though!!!

[samuraiedge]

how are you pressing that red button to get it to overdub? when i do it it starts a new loop on the slot below it instead of overdubbing

[mertmutaf]

hello! I have a very simple question. when ı try to listen to what i made in live session or try to get it exported for the video, it only comes up with everything playing at the same time. So how can i record the complete session the way i play with the timings and everything and not get all of them layed out all together?

[bionic]

hey so i have a launchpad mini mk3 but when i put anyhting in my drum rack nothing lights up on my launchpad i can still hear the sounds but nothing lights up

[piotr]

When you playback a beat you created in the drum rack, I wish the pads on X lit up for each drum hit, so that we can easier figure out which sound correspond to which pad. Is that possible?

[_FERG]

That actually slapped and he didn’t even try

[sandramoore]

I have a launchpad mini and after i put the stuff in the drum rack, nothing was playing even when i hit the pads

[Fusion]

What are you using?
Like, That looks really complicated and you dont even say how to start the app and run the app correctly.

[sinmogen]

urgh. I wish I could get my head around this a bit better. my songs sound like an owl being raped

[brocksanders]

Most unhelpful video Highly recommend watching a different channel