Re: USB button "farms"
Well, the Novation Launch Pad looked great.
Lots of buttons.
Powered by the USB cable
Light weight.
What could be wrong?
Well......................
It has a top row of buttons that is not assignable.
One of them is a "learn" button and if you accidentally press it, the thing remaps itself.
Also, if you assign a button to (example) MIDI note 13, and later reassign it to (example) MIDI note 42, it will now trigger both notes.
Of the 8 support e-mails I've sent, 2 replies asked me the same thing which I had tried. The rest remain unanswered.
I'll keep messing with it, but it looks like I need a better button farm
Any ideas?
What I want:
- A bunch of buttons (64 would be a good enough. I can assign 99 buttons max in my software)
- Prefer it to be USB
- Must work with a PC since my lighting software is on a PC
- ALL buttons must be mappable to MIDI note or program change
(There will be no key that will: shuts the program off, remaps the keyboard, turn the display off, etc...)
- Basically, I need something that after I set it up, that I can hand it to someone and say "push buttons - the ones you like, push those more often"
The Launchpad was $130. If I have to pay $500 to get something that works like it should, I'll consider it.
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Edit - found the secret handshake (4 specific keys all pressed at once) that will disable the "learn button"
May have fixed the other problem as well. It seems my problems stem mostly from lack of good user documentation, rather than being an issue with the hardware.