How do you map buttons for a Novation Launchpad in Magix Music Maker?

mnevill wrote on 9/12/2020, 3:54 PM

I'm using Magix Music Maker version 28.0.3.51 and want to use a 1st gen Novation Launchpad (NOVLPD01) with it. I had to install the Novation Windows USB driver (link here) since the default automatic one for Windows 10 didn't seem to work with plug and play. After that it showed up properly in Device Manager and Magix can see it. I went to Settings > Audio/MIDI > and set it as the Input device under the MIDI section. I can press buttons on the launchpad and see piano keys light up in the Keyboard view and I hear notes. I purchased the Live Pads and Live Sets feature in Magix.and want to be able to assign loops and sounds to the different launchpad buttons. When I click the LIVE icon it opens the Live Pads window and I can click and drag sounds or pick presets. However, I don't see anyway to map the buttons 1-8 and Q-I in Live Pads to specific buttons on the launchpad. I can assign all the buttons and then press one at a time to find them on the launchpad, but they are random and I want to map specific buttons to specific sounds. Does anyone know how to do this? Any help would be appreciated.

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Graham-Hawker wrote on 9/13/2020, 1:50 AM

Does anyone know how to do this?

I don't believe this sort of thing is possible. They assign to the 16 pads in the Launchkey which has been sold in a bundle with Music Maker but I don't know of anyway of assigning them differently.

mnevill wrote on 9/20/2020, 6:03 PM

Maybe I can find a program to configure certain Launchpad buttons to specific keys on the keyboard. If I can get 1-8 and q-y assigned to the right buttons on the Launchpad I think I'll be set since that is what Live Pads and Live Sets seems stuck at. If I figure it out, I'll update this post.

mnevill wrote on 9/20/2020, 8:47 PM

I got this working with Bome MIDI Translator Classic (link here). After installing it you have to go to "Midi In" at the top and select your Launchpad. Then create a new project and add a translation for each button on the Launchpad. Click the plus sign to add a new translation and name it, then double click the entry to edit it, go to the "Incoming" tab and select the Capture MIDI checkbox, then press the button you want to use on the Launchpad. It will populate the box with various Hexadecimal and a "pp" on the end. In the other text box right below there will be two other entries with the same Hexadecimal, one ending with 00 and the other ending with FF. I figured out that you need to click the one that ends in 00 or manually replace the "pp" in the box you can edit with 00. Otherwise when you press a Launchpad key it will register as two keystrokes instead of one.

Then click on the "Outgoing" tab, change the action type dropdown box to be "Key Stroke Emulation" and populate the text box with what keyboard key you want to use.

Then click the Apply button and Close button to complete the translation entry. Then repeat this process until you have a button mapped for all the keyboard keys 1-8 and Q - I that correspond to the keyboard keys the Magix Live Pads and Live Sets appears to be hard-set to.

After mapping all of that it should work in Magix Music Maker with the Live Pads and Live Sets. The only issue I have now is that Live Pads and Live Sets wouldn't seem to let me map past Q (so I have 1-8 mapped on the top row and Q on the bottom row for a total of 9 mapped loops). If I figure that part out, I'll make another reply.

There. Hopefully some other poor lad searching for "How to use a Launchpad with Magix Music Maker" will find this post and have something to work with. I couldn't find any other place where all the info was together and spelled out, so I hope this makes someone's day in the future.