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The '''Novation Launchpad''' is an affordable MIDI controller, designed to work integratedly and smoothly with {{w|Ableton Live}}, a microtonally-capable [[DAW]], though able to be used with many other choices of DAW. The MK3 versions are of interest as being reprogrammable, so that they can be used as [[isomorphic keyboard]]s, as discussed in [[#Application as an isomorphic keyboard]] (though you can program them to do anything you can think of using the same code).
 
Novation Launchpads are a type of affordable MIDI controller, designed to work integratedly and smoothly with {{w|Ableton Live}}, a microtonally-capable [[DAW]], though able to be used with many other choices of DAW. The MK3 versions are of interest as being reprogrammable, so that they can be used as [[isomorphic keyboard]]s, as discussed in [[#Application as an isomorphic keyboard]] (though you can program them to do anything you can think of using the same code).


== Application as an isomorphic keyboard ==
== Application as an isomorphic keyboard ==
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* The Launchpad Pro MK3 is largest and most expensive, and like the Launchpad X has velocity sensitivity for the 8x8 grid of white pads without per-pad pressure sensitivity, however there are now hard, click-y buttons on ''every'' side, so that it forms a 10x10 grid with 3 corners missing. (The hard, click-y buttons are in contrast to the soft, deeper-press buttons of the Launchpad X.) It also has a primitive form of pressure sensitivity called "aftertouch" – the pressure applied to the surface as a – which can be useful for melodic control and contour if routed to a synthesizer that uses this information. Also, the bottom row of buttons is actually split into two rows of half-square buttons, which can be distinguished separately if desired.
* The Launchpad Pro MK3 is largest and most expensive, and like the Launchpad X has velocity sensitivity for the 8x8 grid of white pads without per-pad pressure sensitivity, however there are now hard, click-y buttons on ''every'' side, so that it forms a 10x10 grid with 3 corners missing. (The hard, click-y buttons are in contrast to the soft, deeper-press buttons of the Launchpad X.) It also has a primitive form of pressure sensitivity called "aftertouch" – the pressure applied to the surface as a – which can be useful for melodic control and contour if routed to a synthesizer that uses this information. Also, the bottom row of buttons is actually split into two rows of half-square buttons, which can be distinguished separately if desired.
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