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FRETpad

by zealtv

FRETpad remaps the Novation Launchpads user 1 mode to mimic ...

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Type
MIDI Effect
Author
zealtv
Version
1.0
License
AttributionNonCommercialShareAlike
Live version
8.1.4
Downloads
1,943
Updated
2010-08-29

Description

FRETpad remaps the Novation Launchpads user 1 mode to mimic a guitar or bass fretboard. The X axis steps up in semitones, the Y axis steps up in 4ths.

This makes it it easy to play melodic lines or chords and generally play the launchpad as an instrument.

Instructions:

Create a new MIDI track and instrument

Select Launchpad as MIDI in

Drop FRETpad ahead of the instrument

Select User 1 on the Launchpad

Jam!

FRETpad has only one control for pitch.

A feature I want to incorporate is fretmarkers in the form of lit up pads. I've made a start inside the patch but need help and encourage anyone keen to jump in and hack away.

Video demoing the FRETpad and some launchpad MIDI tricks here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgf0uqjNXr0

Comments (8)

  • domtak · September 03 2010
    This is great, though I'm having trouble where midi notes seem to be getting stuck and playing constantly. Is this the device or my set up.
    Nice work 5*
  • zealtv · September 10 2010
    @domtak it's not a problem i've experienced... There is a stuck note stopper built in to the patch using the flush object which should be doing the trick. what's your set up?
  • herrmutt · October 02 2010
    nice!
    small and ultra efficient, great work
  • Johan · October 06 2010
    cool device!
    But if it was possible to alter the transposition rate between the rows it would be even cooler.
    (being a bass/guitarplayer, it would be awesome to make them fit to a standard EADG tuning. )
    perhaps just a version with this tuning (it it aint too much of a hassle)
  • Johan · October 07 2010
    ... but then again that how it works already.
    just me posting a comment prior to fiddling with the device.
    Thanx a lot for this thing, just what i was looking for ;)
  • zealtv · October 28 2010
    @ Johan If you set the bottom left note to an E then it will be tuned like a bass or guitar. It won't adjust for a B string like standard guitar tuning though, it will just keep going up in fourth as in "all fourths" tuning.
  • pepezabala · November 02 2011
    great device, really useful for me! I made me a rack with my upright bass preset, tuned to bottom left E and have that handy for playing basslines.
  • oin · March 04 2012
    I discovered FRETpad recently and it totally changed my way of working with the Launchpad. For me, it's the most useful M4L device I've ever seen. That device rocks so much that I wanted to push the awesomeness even further and I eventually made my own version, with velocity/hold/modulation/pitchbend expression capabilities and the ability to switch to a standard guitar tuning, called SquareGuitar (http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=1078). Even though I'm using my version now, FRETpad will always remain in my heart as THE way to free us, guitar players, from the supremacy of keyboards ;).

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