So a question about Launchpad. Does it matter what button you hit, or is it synced to play the next proper note no matter what key you hit, and that just helps control which rows, buttons light up?

Yes, of course Cruz is a climate denying nutbag and that is what this is REALLY about, despite his rhetoric.
Not the total schooling I was hoping for, but Bolden made a great point, if I may paraphrase him:

Yes, NASA is about space exploration, but we can't explore space without a launchpad. Earth is our launchpad.

I'm waiting for the rovers to find the first foundation of a skyscraper, or ruins of an inter-planetary launchpad pointed at earth, then things will start falling into place for us.

Your video, M4SONIC does it again.... Now with two launchpads. Awesome!, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

>> ^Gilsun:

Fantomas, ShakeyMcBones and jmd.
This is NOT DUBSTEP. This electro, im not meaning to be a music snob or anything but when people blanket any thing with a wobble noise in it as dubstep, it continues to lead people astray from what is an awesome genre.
Pls youtube Kode 9, Mala, Breakage, Seven, Kryptic Minds, Youngsta for some actual dubstep.


Ok you guys have officially come up with too many damn names for types of electronic styles of music. -_-

I considered it dubstep because its pretty much a mashup of dubstep songs. If that makes it electro then so be it. Still sounds good.

>> ^harlequinn:

>> ^raverman:
"It's like playing a musical instrument, except if you get the chords wrong the crowd will think less of your skills as a musician.">> ^PancakeMaster:
It's like a musical game of memory, except if you forget a block live a few hundred youngsters will boo you.


There are no chords to get wrong. The chord is programmed into one button.
This is an 8 x 8 grid of binary switches. Pressing a button activates a sample.
Compare to a piano with 88 keys, each key has variable volume depending on how hard you press it. Plus three pedals (soft, sustain, and sostenuto). You actually have to play the melody and accompanying chords.
I wouldn't call him a musician. Just like I don't call DJs musicians.


If he had made this soundtrack without using the launchpad, using DAW software and various plugins and samples, that somehow is more "musician"y than using a 64 key launchpad with samples that he probably prepared himself, even though the end result is the same? Maybe composers aren't musicians? Or are you saying this isn't music?

And, you must not think a person playing a small organ is a musician, since it has fewer keys than a piano, and each key is a binary switch that turns on and off the sound of the pipe.

I stand corrected!

>> ^Gilsun:

Fantomas, ShakeyMcBones and jmd.
This is NOT DUBSTEP. This electro, im not meaning to be a music snob or anything but when people blanket any thing with a wobble noise in it as dubstep, it continues to lead people astray from what is an awesome genre.
Pls youtube Kode 9, Mala, Breakage, Seven, Kryptic Minds, Youngsta for some actual dubstep.

>> ^raverman:

"It's like playing a musical instrument, except if you get the chords wrong the crowd will think less of your skills as a musician.">> ^PancakeMaster:
It's like a musical game of memory, except if you forget a block live a few hundred youngsters will boo you.



There are no chords to get wrong. The chord is programmed into one button.

This is an 8 x 8 grid of binary switches. Pressing a button activates a sample.

Compare to a piano with 88 keys, each key has variable volume depending on how hard you press it. Plus three pedals (soft, sustain, and sostenuto). You actually have to play the melody and accompanying chords.

I wouldn't call him a musician. Just like I don't call DJs musicians.

>> ^doogle:

if the video was upside down we'd get a 1st person POV
LifeHack: Place the long edge of your smartphone against your eyebrows with the screen toward the floor. Voila! Instant video inversion! (Note: The phone should be off while watching the video on your desktop.)

>> ^Fantomas:

Such a neat toy and he uses it for f cking dubstep.


I really don't understand the hate for dubstep, IMO it is a music type that has great bass response but at a speed you can enjoy it at. Every other type of techno and even bass and drum is just to damn fast and high pitched.

"It's like playing a musical instrument, except if you get the chords wrong the crowd will think less of your skills as a musician.">> ^PancakeMaster:
It's like a musical game of memory, except if you forget a block live a few hundred youngsters will boo you.

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*promote

Thank you so much for the promote!

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Anyone know what the amazing little device he has is?


yt description: played on a Novation Launchpad & Novation Zero SL MKII.

>> ^dag:

I've sometimes wondered if prominent Sifters get approached by video producers. I think it probably happens a fair bit- as VideoSift can be a good launchpad - I just don't hear about it usually. We don't have any rules around this - do you think we should?


Hah, not really.

I mean, in all honesty, I took their video without permission and posted it on a random website, if anything they're in their right to be able to contact the person who posted it.

I just find it weird that someone actually has, it took me completely off-guard that they did, least they were (seemingly) happy about it.