Novation Launchpad Mini MK3 [10/22] Session mode

Session mode

is designed to control

Ableton Live’s Session view

, seen below.

If you’ve never used Ableton Live before, we recommend visiting our Easy Start

Tool (see

Getting Up and Running

). Here you’ll be guided through downloading

and installing Ableton Live 10 Lite. You’ll also find videos covering the software’s

basic features so you can get started with making music in Ableton Live using

Launchpad Mini.

Session view is a grid that consists of

clips

tracks

(columns) and

scenes

(rows).

Session mode provides an 8x8 view of your clips in Session view on Launchpad

Mini’s pads.

Clips

are typically loops that contain MIDI notes or audio.

Tracks

represent virtual instrument or audio tracks. MIDI clips on instrument tracks

will play back on the instrument that is assigned to that track.

Scenes

are rows of clips. Launching a scene will launch all clips in that row. This

means that you can arrange clips into horizontal groups (across tracks) to form a

song structure, launching scene after scene to progress through a song.

A row on the grid

represents a

scene

highlighted is scene

“9”.

The yellow

column shows a

track

, titled “1

Rhodes”.

Clips

on the

Session View grid