hi everyone this is Xylo Aria here so I've got the launch key mini MK3 here
and just wanted to go through some of the basic functions and what it has to
offer it's pretty light and I think fairly
easy to use so like any MIDI controller obviously
it's not going to make sound on its own you do need to pair that up with a
software of some sort and so I'm using Ableton Live and it works really well
with that because I think it's been built for that in a way and integrates
really well so it's got the two octaves of keys and you've got your 16 pads here
as well and your eight pots that you can use and then we've got the pitch and the
modulation strips here and then here you can change the octaves and transposition
here and you've got your shift which gives you all the pad functions and the
pot functions there and then you've got the new settings that they've added
which is that appreciator and the fixed chord so we'll just quickly run through
what they do so as I mentioned if you press the shift menu a few things come
up here so you've got three orange pads and you've got five green pads so at any
one time you can choose one of the orange pads and one of the green pads so
the orange pads control what your pads do and then the green pad to control
what your pots do so let's just go through them really quickly so the first
one is session so if we choose session then our pads become our controllers for
our session view in Ableton so if you can see the ones that are lit up the
same as what's showing on my session view so in the first track it's a group
track so we've got something there and then in our first scene we've got a clip
in the third and the fifth track and in our second scene we've got something in
the second third and fifth track so and that's a representation of our session
view we can launch the whole thing using this
and then we can move down by pressing shift and moving down and that moves
down a scene so go back here and if we go into session view the normal mode
shows you the two scenes but then this button here offers different functions
as well so if we are playing let's say the second scene if you go into stop
mode you'll see now I've stopped tracks two three and five and if we start again
and then we're going to solo mode now I'm soloing all the different tracks
from one to eight and if you want to solve a few at once
you can do that to you and then if we go into mute mode then we can meet the
different tracks as we go along as well so that's what mute mode adds so that's
pretty much everything that session mode offers and then if we go into the drum
mode then our pads work pretty much like any other drum pad so if we open up a
drum track then you can just play drums using that and a quite sensitive which
quite like and they're velocity-sensitive as well so the harder
you press them it's going to be louder so then if we go into custom mode then
we can change what the pads do according to our MIDI mapping but the norm is that
it's just keys so if you go into this on something and the thing is it gives you
extra two octaves pretty much so but you'll see
so you can use that as four octaves if you want to and then if we go into our
pop modes if we go into device then our pots then control out device so if we go
into this track for example we have an auto filter there so our pots here so
the first one changes the frequency second one changes the resonance third
one changes the filter type etc so that is our device mode then if we go into
volume then to arrangement then you can see it a bit better so our pots then
change the volume of the 8tracks that it's controlling so that's what that
does and then if we go into pan then you know it changes the pan of each of the
eight tracks that we're controlling and then if we go into send so when I press
send you'll see that there are two blue pads that light up so I've got two
different settings in my session so I've got an A and B so if we have the first
blue one selected then our pots will change how much I'm sending to each of
the eight tracks so right now it's send a because that's what we selected if I
press shift and then go to the next one it's sending send B to the different
eight tracks and then if we're going to custom then we can change what our pots
do pretty much so that is our shift menu so as a few things we can do there if we
go into our so if you press R then kind of like our shift button that
arpeggiator opens its own menu so if you see up here might be hard to see on
there but there's a few things that we can select so here is the arpeggiator
mode then here's the rate of the arpeggiator the octave and the rhythm so
we need to choose one of all those things to set up our arpeggiator so
let's say we just want to to go up we want it to be every eighth
note and we just want one octave and we want a simple rhythm and then we can do
that and then if we go to a back to our session mode and then go to something
then if we press you know you can see that that arpeggiator has started so if
we press up and then we press latch then we don't have to keep holding down and
that arpeggiator will keep playing until we press up again and that's when it
stops so let's just have that on and see
and now if we change some settings we go to 16 and then we go up and down so
there's a few things that we can do to play around with that so that's the
basic function of that appreciator if we go to fixed chord then what we
need to do is while pressing that down you can press like other I see PNG for
example and now any key that we play will have will play the chord with those
intervals so that's how our sixth chord works and then we've got our play and
record buttons here so that's kind of the main functions that the minimax 3
has to offer and yeah I think it's fairly easy to use and and works really
well especially with Ableton so let me know we think and if you have any other
questions let me know in the comments and thanks for watching