Total sucker, both too much for me and not enough. Unfortunate, because I remember liking some of the NI synths. Instant return, damn it really was a stupid deal, I totally deserve it 
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Dang, that’s a bummer. At least you figured out it wasn’t for you while in your return window haha
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@oeSmash Sorry to hear it didn’t work out. For me, it takes a few misses to even figure out what I’m looking for - and I’m the type that procrastinates on returns, only to be stuck with it forever. Don’t be like me.
But some good news: I got my new-to-me Launchpad Pro mk3 today. Got to play with it for about an hour and a half this evening and I’m absolutely stoked.
@spunktsch I seriously can’t thank you enough for the recommendation.
I am so glad I got something with a built-in sequencer rather than just a passive midi controller. Even though I am not yet 100% comfortable with the device, the workflow is so intuitive and fast that I’m already creating things that are expanding beyond my usual patterns. I was able to get a beat and backing synths going within literally 5 minutes and get down to creating. Normally I’d sit there for 30 minutes getting all that going. It may sound daft, but this is seriously a breakthrough for me.
I fully recommend an external sequencer to anyone like me who is trying to create their own “backing tracks” for playing guitar / songwriting.
Some “review points” that I feel need to be said:
- I’m able to use, configure, and update the device firmware via Linux - their web app works just fine, though I had to use Chromium rather than Firefox. It appears to be class-compliant and works flawlessly just plugging in and running with it.
- It also works flawlessly on the MOD Dwarf. Detected, enabled, and playing immediately. Set the dwarf to receive MIDI clock tempo, and it is working great. Transport works as expected.
- The Dwarf is able to power the device properly via the USB host - RGB light show in-tact.
- I stand by my desire for a ‘Launchpad Mini Pro’ version. Mini size with the sequencers and feature set of the pro. Please.
One plugin feature request that is immediately apparent (and may already exist, not sure):
A MIDI channel splitter - One midi input, [n] outputs (I’d use 4 with my LpP) - One (selectable) channel per output.
I needed to use 4 MIDI channel filter plugins to get the different sequencers and pages to only control the individual plugin I want. There may already be a better way to achieve this, but I am envisioning this being relatively simple to implement in one ‘channel splitter’ plugin.
I’ll stop yammering now. This is a great pairing with the Dwarf. Thank you all, I’m very excited.
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I was going to suggest the MIDI Channel filter but then noticed that you got there.
In what way do you believe that a splitter could be better? You would always have limitations on the outputs and, I may be seeing it wrong, but what you would gain from having it all in one plugin, you would lose by requiring a bigger and more complex UI. Maybe I’m not getting it properly, anyway, I’m just trying to better understand the request in order to better map it
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Sorry for the delay in responding to this, I’ve been pretty busy. But here’s an illustration.
It takes 68 clicks for me to configure this - adding and connecting 4 separate filters, and manually turning off the 15 unwanted channels on each. And if I want to set it up on a different pedalboard, I have to do the entire thing over again. And also it’s impossible change assignments on-device without the webUI.
There may already exist a better way to achieve this - if one exists please let me know - and my request may be too niche to take seriously - but IMO anyone who wants to simultaneously control multiple synths/drums via external MIDI would benefit from it.
My example is 4 outputs, but it could be as many or few as desired. In a real implementation I would make the text larger as well.
I’m imagining channel selection to happen similarly to the x42 sequencers - just scroll the wheel to make a selection (or assign to a knob on-device.)
I used an existing CV plugin for the base to use as a scale for a plugin that has 1 input and 4 outputs - so this is a realistic size comparison.
Edit: An alternative to this would be to allow assignable channels in the plugin configuration screen.
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i use the note range filter for this. You still have to put it on the pedalboard four times but it has a smaller footprint.
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I already have such a plugin btw. 1 midi input, 16 midi outputs. basically 1 output per channel.
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That looks like an improvement, thank you.
Is that available on MOD devices yet (beta or otherwise) or do you mean you have one included in kxs that could be ported?
Edit: I also just found the "MIDI 1 Channel Filter’ from x42 which is another improvement. Not sure how I missed that one honestly.
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It is in beta already.
Though it looks quite crappy, needs a modgui and some tweaking to reduce padding between jacks, so it takes less space.
There are both MIDI Split and Join plugins. Split makes each input channel output in a different MIDI port.
The Join one will make all MIDI from a port automatically have their channel converted to the matching port.
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