Description
“In live electronic music, the endless free expanse of the computer screen tends to run up against the limited ability of your brain to tell just which freakin’ track am I on, anyway? In the studio, it can be annoying. Live onstage, it can be train wreck-inducing.
Ableton Live’s Session View has for years exacerbated this problem. You can limit your options to eight (or even four) tracks. But that doesn’t always work. You might need more than eight tracks for particular routings of audio or MIDI. And unless you use Device Racks and chains, you’ll also need extra tracks to switch instruments.
LaunchSync XL is a solution to that problem. Instead of all of your controllers going their own way and controlling different parts of Live separately, they can now move in tandem. So, rather than doing scrolling on multiple devices and squinting at the screen to see where the heck you are, you can navigate on one controller and everything else follows.”
With the launch of Live 10 we knew that we’d need to go back to the drawing board and rewrite the code from scratch, advances in the way the control surface scripts for Live have been written mean that we are now able to provide compatibility for every controller that has an onscreen RedBox (Ring Focus Box to use the official terminology).
LAUNCHSYNC XL
- Sync together up to 6 Control surfaces aligning their Ring Focus Boxes as desired
- Bi-Directional Sync between Leader and Follower
- Have the Leader Controller move via MIDI Mapping
- Auto-Sync to the Highlighted Track or Scene, and offset the Ring to have the chosen track or scene in the middle of your controller
- Save the Leader position to a preset for recall by Clip Envelope
- 4 banks of 24 Encoders that can be mapped to follow your Ring Focus Box dynamically
- Define which tracks that will be excluded from Scene Launching
- Bridge from Follow which can create Follow Actions for Scenes
LAUNCHSYNC LE
- Enhanced MIDI Control of a singular RedBox controller
- Auto-Sync to the Highlighted Track or Scene, and offset the Ring to have the chosen track or scene in the middle of your controller
- Save the Leader position to a preset for recall by Clip Envelope
- 4 banks of 24 Encoders that can be mapped to follow your Ring Focus Box dynamically
- Define which tracks that will be excluded from Scene Launching
- Bridge from Follow which can create Follow Actions for Scenes
ENHANCED ABLETON LIVE SCRIPTS
In addition to supporting the factory scripts included in Ableton Live 10 we also provide support for our enhanced range of control surface scripts from Sigabort
- AKAI MIDIMIX XL
- Behringer BCR XL
- Behringer BCF XL – Isotonik Script
- Novation LaunchControl XXL
- Novation LaunchControl X
- Korg NanoKontrol Studio XL
PLEASE NOTE: This LaunchSync XL is not compatible with Scene Follow Actions in Live 11, this is due to the exclude feature which launches individual clips on a scene and doesn’t trigger the scene itself. A version without the Exclude feature for Live 11 is in development.
ndebello (verified owner) –
Maybe the best of all Isotonik tools, at least for me. Mandatory if you are playing alive with Ableton Live, in my opinion. When playing alive, the main problem is move around your tens of Tracks, knowing where you are instantly, and avoid messing with more than on MIDI controller. Solved with LaunchSync.
bradr672004 (verified owner) –
Great after-sales assistance and advice to help me sync my 2 Xone K2s. The support was prompt and very helpful, and I will certainly be a returning customer.
Jideh High (verified owner) –
Isotonik team !! you rock , you know it !!
The Graal to simplify multi midi controller set up in ableton!
Fred (verified owner) –
Using LaunchSync with Push 2 and a LaunchControl XL is as close as I’ve experienced to making working with Live like working on hardware. The way LaunchSync glues everything together has made Live so much more fun to work with that I now miss hardware less and less. Also, shoutout to Isotonik support. Super responsive and always helpful.
Yannick Bisson (verified owner) –
Works great. Had some issues at first with my system (history of Max Live Devices “Track Select” that hijack the Undo/Redo, which was a “no-go” for me), but Darren did a fix for my particuliar situation. Great support. Now works flawless. 🙂
Antonin Barre (verified owner) –
I was looking for a quick’n’dirty way to sync my Novation Launchpad and move around scene with 16 x 8 and that’s just what i found. This can be a very easy setup if you RTFM .D (and, err, understand it ;). Otherwise, great after buy support here. Thanks again.
You can probably get very complicated stuff setup as well but that’ll be for another day for me ^^
Louis Mussier (verified owner) –
Disappointing because a simple thing isn’t possible : To select a track from wherever ableton or a controller that move the red box in a “Bank” logic, so select a track from 1 to 8 put the launch box from 1 to 8, select a track from 9 to 16 put the launch box from 9 to 16 and so on.
Only able to do this at track level so select track 13 for example put the Launch box from 13 to 20.
This is frustrating.
Darren E Cowley (Admin) –
Hi Louis, Surprised to see a poor score based on a feature that’s not advertised, the auto follow feature relies on the API to read the selected track and then syncs based on that. No one else has requested such a feature but I’m sure something could be arranged if you want a custom version built. Please get in touch via the support channel using the Contact Us Option in the header of the website.
Louis Mussier (verified owner) –
Thanks you a lot for that quick and passionated response.
I just contacted you trying to go ahead with your proposal. 🙂
It is a way for me to put Push 2 more in a vintage straight-forward working, or so to approach the “each thing its place” style
Sean Fairchild (verified owner) –
I got what I wanted! A movable red box / green box / blue box / focus ring box (really just depends on what place in Ableton’s script list in preferences your controller occupies) that snaps to my selected or highlighted scene. I have selected scene mapped to a rotary encoder on the APC40 mkII, so now I can just turn that to scroll up and down and have the focus ring follow along perfectly! So much more useful. Darren helped me out when I had an issue with the actual scene itself not being triggered by the plugin (rather just the clips within the scene, ignoring scene specific BPM and time signature changes) by providing a different version that DOES trigger the scene itself if you’re not using track “exclusions”. Since I didn’t need exclusions, this worked great for me. Thanks again for all the help and great service!