iPAD GUIDE
Novation has created two exciting iPad apps for use with your Launchkey Mini keyboard. These
can be downloaded from the Apple App Store in the usual way; check that your iPad version is
compatible. Each of the apps can be used on your iPad without connecting the Launchkey Mini;
they are largely self-explanatory, and a full description of their features is not within the scope of
this manual.
The following section of User Guide restricts itself to describing how you can use your
Launchkey Mini keyboard with these apps.
NOTE: It is recommended that you connect the Launchkey Mini to the iPad prior to launching
the Novation Launchkey and Novation Launchpad app.
Launchkey app
The Launchkey app is a software synthesiser. It includes 80 exciting synth sounds for
immediate use in your performances and productions. It uses a graphical interface to
manipulate the synth sounds, and gives you a fast and fun way to be creative. Connecting the
iPad to your Launchkey Mini gives greatly enhanced and more tactile control, and allows the
use of a physical keyboard.
Launchpad app
The Launchpad app is a software version of Novation’s successful LAUNCHPAD music
controller. The app offers an 8 x 6 matrix of multi-coloured pads, which can be used to make
and remix music from a library of samples and loops. Built-in time-stretching ensures that all
the loops and samples are synchronised and remain in tempo.
Using Launchkey Mini with the Launchkey iPad app
Connect your Launchkey Mini to your iPad via the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit, following
the instructions on page 12.
When connected, Launchkey Mini’s hardware controllers are mapped directly “one-to-one” onto
the equivalent on-screen rotary controls; these are programmed to vary the most important
parameters of each synth patch. Note that the parameters controlled by both sets of controls
(hardware and software) will depend on the patch loaded.
The following list summarises the hardware assignments:
• The keys
[1]
operate in the normal manner, to play the loaded patch.
• The Octave buttons
[6]
also operate normally, but note that these are independent of
the Octave buttons on-screen, which only affect the virtual keyboard.
• The rotary controllers [2] are mapped directly to the eight rotary controls displayed on-
screen for each patch.
• The K and J buttons [8] are used to select a patch.
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