10EnglishLAUNCHKEY SETUP EXAMPLESLaunchkey is designed to integrate automatically and seamlessly with your computer musicsoftware. Launchkey can be used with either a computer/laptop, or with an iPad; howeverthe features and operational possibilities do differ with the two platforms, so they have beencovered separately in the User Guide sections that follow.Interfacing Launchkey to a computerConnect Launchkey to your computer using the supplied USB cable between Launchkey’s rearpanel USB socket and a USB port on the computer.Control informationPowerUSBIf Launchkey cannot establish communications with the computer, all the pads will flash rapidlyin a multicoloured sequence. (We’ve called this Lightshow mode.) Once the USB data link isworking, Lightshow mode will stop and Launchkey will be ready for use.If you want to impress your friends with a dynamic and impressive lightshow,you can initiate this mode by pressing the Record button while Launchkeyboots up. Press the Track I and Track H buttons together to cancel it and returnto normal operation.InControl modeInControl has been integrated into your Launchkey to allow instant operability with certainDAWs. Consult the Setup Guide for your DAW which you downloaded when you registered yourLaunchkey*. This will explain how the various controls on Launchkey map onto each DAW’s keyfunctions.If your favourite DAW is not in this list, you can still use Launchkey with it effectively, but you willneed to use Basic Mapping Mode (see following page).*This can be downloaded at any time from www.novationmusic.com/downloads.