Ah, memories … there is no such weapon as a Yamaha DX7 – you can actually kill someone with it – solid and heavy, almost like a sword. After all, it is a controller – a truly old school controller – one that can be bashed on the head of a drunken intruder at a concert and not like those new controllers that can’t hurt anyone. But being so solidly built, I can easily understand that price policy. Even the USB cable is big and massive.Īt first I thought “why the hell this should cost so much?”, a piece of plastic for almost €200 EUR. Knobs are really solid and you need to even apply some minimal force to move them, so it is very easy to apply exact values without having troubles going too far in any direction as it is the case with too-loose knobs that we get on some products. The whole thing is middle-weight, not being so light that can be easily blown off the table. Actually, it is built like musical equipment from 80s, from the time before various manufacturer applied cheap, tin, and shabby plastic that is so prevalent in all new products sharing the same qualities with the era we are living now. It was pretty big controller, but far more firm than most of the plastic musical toys that I’ve played with during last ten of fifteen years. I was expecting a fragile peace of plastic and was surprised at what came to my doorstep.
Could all those knobs, buttons and sliders become a hardware version of your DAW? You will need to do this when you first load a session, when you bank tracks (9-16, 17-24 etc.), or when you change from pan to send a, send b etc.LaunchControl XL – a new controller from Novation.
To correct for this you may need to turn the control from one end to the other in order to reset the range. This is great if you want to make a small adjustment but you may find you hit the end of the pot’s physical travel before before the virtual control on screen. The pan and send controls don’t have pot pick-up, they move immediately from whatever position they are in. You will need to do this when you first load a session, when you bank tracks (9-16, 17-24 etc.), or when you change from pan to send a, send b etc. In order to make these work we ‘emulate’ the operation of the encoders in firmware. The Launch Control XL has pots rather than encoders which have an absolute position. HUI is designed to work with encoders for pan and send controls. The controls still work relatively to turn pans left and right.
NOVATION LAUNCH CONTROL XL MK2 PRO
*Due to the Pro Tools HUI implementation, the centre detent of the LaunchControl XL pan pots will not directly correspond to the centre position of Pro Tool’s pan pots. Fixed crash: Sending Sysex Messages with values out of LaunchControl XL´s parameter range to the device Added additional MIDI port "LaunchControl XL HUI" Release notes for Firmware Updater 1.2 (firmware revision 59)
NOVATION LAUNCH CONTROL XL MK2 FULL
Added full class compliance (LaunchControl XL now supports use with MIDI-hosts like Kenton "MIDI USB Host" or iConnectivity "iConnect MIDI")
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