Every launchpad is a special snowflake

Glad to see that Harry Potter grew up to be a fantastic finger drummer.

I wanted the Mini for the buttons, rather than velocity pads that I'm never going to use for velocity purposes, but the X has the scales mode that I really want. It's amazing how I can't find any device that does exactly what I want. Don't even get me started on the APC Mini.

Damn, this is one of the best channels I've discovered in the lasts months. It deserves a lot more atenttion. But finger drumming is something a little bit niche.

Update: The latest firmware update should fix all accidental note triggering according to Novation! And here's the blog post with gear recommendations: questforgroove.com/gear-recommendations/

🎉❤😂 Good information. Just got a Pro MK3 so I won't get frustrated with it. Thanks

Just got my Launchpad X in yesterday so I was worried you were going to have to retract your rave review. Good to hear even with multiple Xs it still performed at a high level for the money. Looking forward to finally getting to complete your tutorial videos on your site myself after only watching them before, keep up the great work!

I was getting crazy with my Launchpad X, due to this double-note triggering that I experienced the most on Melodics, rather than on Ableton (less evident). I gave it back and went for the Launchpad Pro MK3 and I am VERY happy and satisfied about responsiveness and accuracy of the pads!

Eye-opening. Thanks! I guess we should assume that electronic musical instruments, even mass-produced ones, can have subtle differences like this. Prior to this discussion, I assumed that in a single manufacturing run, it's binary "defective or non-defective" output and that all non-defective output would perform identically. Hey, on the subject of your 2020 pad recommendations, are people asking you to review the MPC One pads? It's a device that I, for one, am interested in, because I've always wanted to own a sampler.

When playing the same pads me and my friend get different amounts of double triggers. I’ve put it down to what I call “snap”, a really reactive and efficient on off motion reduces/eliminates double triggers in my experience.

Great video I thought of getting the atom just for large pads and starting out, then the LPX for it’s nice feats.

as a keyboardish player wanting to use the launchpad for scales, i wish it was a 10x10 or custom size so my thumbs had somewhere to rest, similar to your thumbs hitting the bottom problem

Hi, After your reviews I decided to buy an LP X but unfortunately I find the minimum sensitivity very disappointing (I prefer much softer triggering, since I’m coming from the Piano and had a Maschine 2 previously) Did you observe the sensitivity getting better after some use /breaking in over time? Do you know if it is possible to MOD a Launchpad for some extra sensitivity? Congrats on your show, really good stuff!

As I watched this I wondered if the Pad Sensitivity was set the same for the 3 Launchpad Xs Seeing how thorough you are with your testing generally I figured you would have covered that. Later in the video I see that you Did go over that setting later.

what would be a good device to use along side my SL49 MK3 using Ableton........a unit with its own sounds, or a type of launchpad

Hey man, I have a question. I have a problem with mine, first of all I wanted to connect my Launchpad X together with my Piano midi controller in Ableton set up in different channels. So I Putted my Piano Controller is in channel 1 and the Launch pad X is in Channel 9. Only Problem is that when I arm a drum track to play the Launch pad X in a drum track, it thinks it is a normal instrument and goes into melody mode instead of drum mode, and now it does not even show a drum grid pattern of Ableton in my Launchpad X, it still plays the sound, I only can't visually see where they are. I think it is because I have change in preference-> link midi: the input and output to lauchpad_x instead of MIDIIN2 (LPX MIDI). So how can I play both of my controllers without having problems of them interfering with each other?

I bought the launchpad pro thinking that I was buying the pro Mk3, but then I realized the the new pro Mk3 hasn't come from my country until today.

Broo are the pads on launchpad x same on the Launchkey mk3 ? I mean the feel and Soft. Both are same or different?

I ended getting the X, and as it is my first ever pad-controller, can't compare it with anything else. No music stores around to test different ones. But It is a bummer that companies nowadays can't reassure that all their devices are 100% identical... And what's with the releasing of overlapping products in such a short time? That's just wrong! Let the consumers have time to enjoy their products before something better comes out! (At least from the same company). My two cents. ;)

I have a LPX and a LP Pro MK3: We should have gotten 8 Channels for the LP Pro, 64 steps view with a switch to 32 steps and the keys, when NOT using Ableton Live, also be able to set these buttons without extra entering ghost mode. A chord mode, a software sequencer, for the LP X, IMHO. Like this, we can just hope hope on hacks...

Very cool! Can't wait to get to grow to one of those!