Novation Launchpad Pro USB MIDI Controller for Ableton Live with Audio Technica M40X Headphones

Novation Launchpad Pro USB MIDI Controller for Ableton Live

Product Hardware Specifications

• 64 RGB backlit velocity and pressure sensitive button grid
• 32 RGB backlit round mode buttons
• One setup button
• Front LED strip
• Orange rubber base mat 
• High retention USB connector
• Two MIDI sockets (3.5mm jack sockets with MIDI din break-out cables)
• Power supply connector
• Power switch
• Kensington Security Slot

Product Compatibility

• Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
• Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7
• iOS 8, iOS 7

Launchpad Pro is class compliant, so will work on any modern Mac, Windows or Linux PC.

Power Requirements

• USB bus powered
• 12V DC Power supply included
• Maximum power consumption 12V DC 1A

Product Dimensions

• 260mm width x 260mm depth x 29mm height

Audio-Technica ATH-M40X Professional Monitoring Headphones

Specs:

• Type: Closed-back dynamic
• Driver Diameter: 40mm
• Magnet: Neodynium
• Voice Coil: CCAW (Copper-clad aluminum wire)
• Frequency Response: 15 Hz - 24 kHz
• Maximum Input Power: 1,600 mW @ 1 kHz
• Sensitivity: 98 dB
• Impedance: 35 Ohms
• Weight: 240 g (8.5 oz.), without cable and connector
• Cable: Includes two interchangeable cables: Detachable 1.2 m -3.0 m (3.9' - 9.8') coiled cable and detachable 3.0 m (9.8') straight cable
• Accessories Included: Protective carrying couch, 6.3 mm (1/4") screw on adapter

 Manufacturer's Description

Launchpad Pro is the simplest and best way to create dynamic, expressive performances in Ableton Live, or any music software.

We've given our iconic Launchpad a total overhaul. Enhanced with RGB LED feedback, and velocity and pressure-sensitive pads, Launchpad Pro brings limitless expression and creativity to your music.

Included Software

• Ableton Live Lite music making software
• 4 GB of Loopmasters sounds and samples
• Novation Bass Station VST and AU plug-in synthesiser
• Novation V Station VST and AU plug-in synthesiser
• Choice from 1 of 4 XLN Audio Addictive Keys VST
  

It's An Instrument - Play It!

Launchpad Pro is an instrument designed for live performance. The new RGB pads light up to match the colour of your clips in Ableton Live's session view, so you can see at a glance which clips are playing.

In Note Mode, it automatically switches the layout for drum or instrument devices:

Drums: all your sounds spread across the whole grid, on velocity and pressure-sensitive pads which let you create expressive beats.

Instruments: the grid illuminates as a chromatic keyboard, so you can easily play notes, melodies and chords.

Play Just About Anything

You can use the grid to play any of your music software and external hardware too - with Standalone Mode. It doesn't matter which software you are using: plug it straight into Logic Pro, for example, and play it like a keyboard; connect the MIDI ports to your Bass Station II and play riffs on your grid. The possibilities are endless.

Stay in Your Flow

Launchpad Pro is much more than an instrument: it also gives you slick, immediate access to all your mixer controls mid-performance, so you stay in your flow. There’s no need to enter a separate mixer mode; simply press and hold a mixer function button (like mute or volume), make a change, and then release the button to drop straight back into your performance.

Stay in Control of Everything

Control your effects, instrument devices and plug-ins mid-performance to add engaging, expressive effects. For super smooth effect transitions, the button grid also turns into eight velocity-sensitive vertical faders, with LED feedback - the harder you hit the pad, the faster the transition.

Plug In and Get Started

Launchpad Pro is just as sleek, lightweight and tough as the rest of our Launch range and can be chained to multiple other Launch products, or connected to the rest of your studio or live setup.

It comes with everything you need to get started, including cables and software, and can be bus-powered over USB. It’s also class compliant and doesn’t need any drivers; just install the software, plug in and start performing.

Scale Mode

Never hit a wrong note again! With the Scale function, simply press Launchpad Pro’s Shift and Note buttons, then choose from a roster of 32 keys and modes, from major and minor, through phrygian, whole tone and more. Once selected, Launchpad Pro’s 64 velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads will assign themselves contiguously to only the notes of the selected scale, removing all the rest. Launchpad Pro is turned into a deeply expressive instrument that lets you focus on the music, rather than precise finger positions. Scale mode isn’t just for Ableton Live – you can use it to play virtual instruments in any other DAW, as well as your hardware synths. Launchpad Pro does not require connection to a computer; it can send MIDI via its 1/8th-inch output (and an included 5-pin Din adapter), so you can play external synths without a keyboard controller.

Features

• Enhance Your Performance: Take hands-on control of your music with seamless Ableton Live integration.
• Control Just About Anything: Use the grid to control any music software and external hardware.
• Focus On Your Music: RGB pads match the colour of your clips in Ableton Live's session view
• Make Dynamic Beats: Create expressive drum performances using velocity-sensitive pads.
• Play It Like An Instrument: Easily play notes, melodies and chords on a chromatic keyboard layout.
• Mix Without Losing Focus: Get slick immediate access to all your mixer controls mid-performance.
• Easily Apply Effects: Get creative by controlling effects, instrument devices and plug-ins mid-performance.
• Build Your Own Creations: Download and control a growing library of Max for Live devices.
• Take It Anywhere: Compact, lightweight and bus-powered, tough enough to survive the roughest gigs.
• Make Music Immediately: Comes with everything you need to start performing your music.

Audio-Technica ATH-M40X Professional Monitoring Headphones

The M-Series ATH-M40x professional monitor headphones are tuned flat for incredibly accurate audio monitoring across an extended frequency range. Your studio experience is enhanced with superior sound isolation and swiveling earcups for convenient one-ear monitoring. Engineered with pro-grade materials and robust construction, the M40x excels in professional studio tracking and mixing, as well as DJ monitoring.

More About the M-Series Headphones
Critically acclaimed M-Series professional monitor headphones deliver accurate audio and outstanding comfort, perfect for long sessions in the studio and on the go. Contoured earcups seal tight for excellent sound isolation, with minimal bleed. And the pro-grade materials are durable, yet comfortable. Find out why online reviewers, top audio engineers, and cult followers agree, M-Series is an unmatched combination of audio and build-quality that gets the job done. Hour after hour, year after year.

Features:

• Cutting-edge engineering and robust construction

• 40 mm drivers with rare earth magnets and copper-clad aluminum wire voice coils

• Tuned flat for incredibly accurate sound monitoring across the entire frequency range

• Circumaural design contours around the ears for excellent sound isolation in loud environments

• 90° swiveling earcups for easy, one-ear monitoring

• Professional-grade earpad and headband material delivers more durability and comfort

• Collapsible for space-saving portability

• Detachable cable (includes 1.2 m - 3.0 m coiled cable and 3.0 m straight cable)

•  For professional studio tracking and mixing, as well as DJ monitoring