Novation launchpad mini

Sorry if this is in the wrong section

My son has just brought the above product and is having difficulty getting it to work.

Does anyone have experience with these that could give him a couple of starter lessons?

It would be a shame for him to give up on it before he's given it a chance but its a whole new language to me!!

What's he having trouble with...

if it's new, and with Ableton, there's often a few "demo" grids setup already....

install software, plug it in, load software, open grid, and play...

here's a quick start guide and some basic tutorials....

https://uk.novationmusic.com/get-started/launchpad-mini

https://global.novationmusic.com/answerbase/Launchpad-tutorial-part-1-setting-up

it was working fine but then i tried putting a light show over a project i downloaded and i must have tampered with some of the keys because now all the pads are jumbled up and play random parts.

it was working fine but then i tried putting a light show over a project i downloaded and i must have tampered with some of the keys because now all the pads are jumbled up and play random parts.

When you create the grid yourself (which samples play on which keys) each key is assigned an ID (like A01, A02,... B01, B02 etc, not exactly, but an example)

The software then picks up the ID of the key, and plays the correct sample for the correct ID..

When you apply lightshows, they can sometimes interfere with the ID's if they don't use the standard default ID's

you may just have to put the other grid back on...

or, have you selected a different page/channel? (the numbers across the top/letters down the side)

i think i need to reset the grid maybe

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but i dont know how to

Have a look through the tutorials i posted, its covered in there i believe