launchkey mini mk3 solo.mov

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Quick solo using the launchkey mini mk3 on an Emil Rottmayer style chillwave track

[Kjuio]

Nice, wish it didnt cut off though lol

[Άδης-οσ]

MAKE SURE THAT THE ARPEGGIATOR WORKS IN SYNC WITH YOUR DAW BEFORE BUYING THIS!

i bought the novation launchkey mk3 because of the promising arpeggiator, but to my surprise it does not sync with Ableton. When the play button is on while trying to play chords with the arpeggiator on the first 2 notes are played together in the begining and there are inconistencies in the quantisation of the notes. When the play button is off and the keyboard uses its own clock the arpeggiated chords are played as they should. This means that the arpeggiator is unusable in ableton.

After lots of emails with novation they answered with this..

"The best way to perfectly sync an arp to Ableton would be to use Ableton itself. I.e. trigger clips with arp patterns in or use the arp device mapped to the Launchkey controls. The arp on the Launchkey is great for a live scenario that doesn't require perfect synchronisation with Ableton, but less so if you need it to be perfectly in time with other Ableton clips. This is because it does not account for human error.

AND

"Yes, this is possible (to play 2 synced arpeggiated chords) but it requires you to be very accurate with the re-triggering of the chord. There's no way to 'queue' the next chord so you would need to play it as on beat as possible. If you need to to do this with consistently perfect precision, it may be easier to use Live to trigger prerecorded MIDI clips."

AND

"I'm not sure it would be possible to change this behaviour. Ableton (and all other DAWs) only send clock information when the transport is running."

I have been very patient with this matter but if there is no solution to this and if Novation does not plan on fixing this then its time i buy another midi keyboard from another company that the arpeggiator actually works in sync with a DAW.
Shame on novation for claiming that it has good intergration with DAW's and especially ableton, the least they could do is clarify to unsuspecting customers that the arp does not sync with the daw

Im actually surprised that people did not notice this problem!

Feel free to offer a solution if you have one :)