LaunchPad
CLIP LAUNCHER

Press the „Clip Launcher“ Button to enter the Clip Launcher Mode. In Clip Launcher Mode, the grid represents the clip slots in the Arrange or Mix View. It lets you start, stop and record clips using the button matrix on the Launchpad. Use the „Flip“ Button in order to switch between the Arrange or Mixer Clip Launcher view orientation or hold the VOL, PAN, SEND 1, or SEND 2 button ins order to change Volume, Panorama or the Sends using the button matrix.

Keep the Clip Launcher Mode button pressed and press any pad of a column to launch the scene. Keep one of the round pads on the right pressed to set the track‘s volume/pan/send or one of 3 user parameters on the 8x8 grid.

LED GREEN
Bright Clip is playing.
Dim Clip is playing in a muted track.
Blinking Clip is about to be launched.
LED YELLOW
Bright Clip present in this slot.
Dim Track is muted.
LED RED
Bright Clip is recording.
Dim Track is armed, slot is empty and ready to record.
STEPS

Press „Steps“ to enter the step sequencing mode:

  • In step sequencing mode, you can use the Launchpad‘s pad matrix to step‐sequence notes into the currently selected instrument clip in Bitwig Studio.
  • The bottom half of the pad mat‐ rix (bottom 4 rows) represents the scale you have chosen in „Drums/ Keys“ mode.
  • Press one of those notes pads in step mode to select its note for step sequencing. The 4 top rows represent 32 steps. You can select the step size by pressing the 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32 buttons (B1‐4) on the right side and select the velocity of the steps you are about to program by pressing the Low, Mid, High, Max Buttons (B5‐8) below the step size buttons.
  • You can set or remove steps for it in the top 4 rows and those steps will be immediately written into the current instrument clip.
DRUMS/KEYS

Press the „Drums/Keys“ Button in order to play midi notes using the LaunchPad‘s 8x8 button grid. You can choose between 4 different scale setups using the round buttons (B1‐4) on the right side.

1. Keys The pads are layed out like on a keyboard. Yellow pads represent white keys and red pads represent black keys.
2. Drums The pads are layed out in a drum machine pad style matrix.
3. Diatonic Diatonic pad layout.
4. Linear Linear pad layout.

Using the up/down keys, you can scroll through the drum grid / notes.