Playing Existing Projects
Load community Launchpad projects and start performing lightshows as quickly as possible.
Why Start by Playing Existing Projects?
Playing projects made by others is the fastest way to start using your Launchpad. It helps you learn the basic usage with a software of your choice (Ableton, Amethyst Studio, etc.) and allows you to play performances of varying difficulties, without having to spend hours creating your own projects.
What You Need
- A Launchpad or comparable MIDI grid controller (duh)
- A decent computer with a modern operating system (macOS works best, Windows is fine, Linux support is poor)
- It's also possible to play projects on mobile (via UniPad, etc.), but the experience is usually worse than on a computer.
- This wiki won't go into detail about mobile apps, for that please find other resources.
- A software that can load Launchpad projects (Ableton Live, Amethyst Studio, etc.)
Getting Started
If you have your Launchpad and computer ready, you can go ahead and start searching for your first project to play. Click to the next page to read more about how to source your projects.
If you already have a project in mind, you can skip to the "Basic Setup" page.