Novation Launchpad X User Manual

Session Mode
Ableton Live's Session View
Ableton Live's Session View
Session mode is designed to control Ableton Live’s Session View, seen below.
If you’ve never used Ableton Live before, we recommend visiting our Easy Start Tool (see Getting Up and
Running [4]). Here you’ll find your included Ableton Live Lite download code (if you choose to register your
Launchpad X). There are also videos covering installing, the soware’s basic features, and how to get started
making music with your Launchpad X in Ableton Live.
Session View is a grid that consists of clips, tracks (columns) and scenes (rows). Session mode provides an 8×8
view of your clips in Session view on Launchpad X.
1. Clips are typically loops that contain MIDI notes or audio.
2. Tracks represent virtual instruments or audio tracks. MIDI clips placed on instrument tracks will play
back on the instrument that is assigned to that track.
3. Scenes are rows of clips. Launching a scene will launch all clips in that row. This means that you can
arrange clips into horizontal groups (across tracks) to form a song structure, launching scene aer
scene to progress through a song.
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Novation Launchpad X Specifications

General

Brand	Novation
Model	Launchpad X
Category	Recording Equipment
Language	English