Reference Manual

553 Using the Launchpad
The Launchpad’s Session Overview lets you navigate through large Live Sets quickly without
looking at your computer screen. Hold down the Session button and the matrix zooms out to re-
veal an overview of your Session View. In the Session Overview, each pad represents an eight-
by-eight block of clips, giving you a matrix of 64 scenes by 64 tracks.
Hit a pad to focus on that section of the Session View. For example, hitting the Session button
and then pressing the pad in the third row in the first column will put the focus on scenes 17-25
and tracks 1-8. Furthermore, while “session” is held, each scene launch button represents a
block of 64 scenes (if they are available in your Set.)
In the Session Overview, the color coding is a little different:
•Amber: indicates the currently selected block of clips, which will be surrounded by the ring
in the software.
•Green: there are clips playing in that block of clips (though that may not be the block of
clips selected).
•Red: there are no clips playing in that range.
•No color: there are no tracks or scenes in that range.
30.4 User Modes
The User modes allow the grid of 64 buttons plus the 8 vertical system buttons to be freely as-
signed to any parameter in Live. Alternatively, if no assignments have been made then note data
will be sent from the 64 button grid in a layout designed to work well with the Drum Rack device
(starting from note C1).
When User 1 is selected, Launchpad can be used to play note data into Live’s MIDI tracks (if no
custom MIDI assignments have been made.)
When User 2 is selected, Launchpad does not send note data by default. This mode is ideal for
doing extensive MIDI customization or programming Max for Live (page 471) patches.