This Launchpad is nice simple way to get a physical button to press as alternative to the screen button’s.
In this page it is used to access the override buttons so the user don’t need to navigate on a crowded screen and struggling with the mouse to get timing correct.


There will not be an installation guide to the Novation driver sw as this can be found on Novation’s web page.

In FreeStyler go to Midi setup panel under “Setup”





In the midi panel select “Launchpad MK2” for midi input and midi output.
FreeStyler can handle 2 midi interfaces and in this case Launchpad is selected a midi interface 1.
Click “Start” to activate the midi interface.


You are now ready to map the midi keys to FreeStyler buttons.

The easy is to learn function.



Click “Learn” to activate the learn function.
Navigate to the function which are to be mapped. Here “Override button6”
On the Launchpad press the key which are to control the function.
In the small box bellow the function table information about the pressed key is shown.
Here “note-on(144), 86-0-1”
Translated:

• Command: note-on = 144
• Note = 86, Unique identifier of the no 6 key in row 8 from the bottom.
• Midi channel = 0. Note: here is an offset error, should be 1
• Midi interface = 1: Correspond to midi interface 1.

For the Launchpad the feedback value set the LED color for the key.
The value send back to the Launchpad correspond to the map bellow.