Launchpad Mini Mk3

GRID Mode — launch clips

• Every channel's clip states glow in that channel's own colour (the colour you picked in Clip Player, else its default hue) — dim = loaded, solid full brightness = playing, flashing = queued-launch. Only queued-stop flashes RED on every channel, so a pending stop always reads. The pad matches Clip Player’s swatch for the same channel.
• Tap a loaded clip (dim) to launch it — it flashes (queued) until the next quantize boundary, then turns solid (playing). Tap the playing clip to queue a stop (flashes red until the boundary).
• Columns are channels, rows are slots — the same orientation as the Clip Player Session grid, so the pad you see lit is the clip you see on screen.
• Row / scene launch (right column): a grid row is one clip per channel — an Ableton-style scene / song section. Scene button N fires that row's slot across every channel that has a clip and stops the channels that don't. It flashes green while any channel in that row is queued. The column is a scrolling window over up to 64 scenes (slide it with Grid + shift SCR▲ / SCR▼; an empty scene is dark and its launch is a no-op).
• Empty pads glow dim red while ARRANGER RECORD is armed.

Launch versus inspect

Tap a clip to launch or stop it. HOLD GRID + tap a clip selects and opens it without changing playback. Note clips open CLIP, including those with attached audio; their recording and source controls stay in CONTROL → AUDIO. Legacy standalone audio clips open AUDIO. Empty pads create a note clip. A double-tap also opens the clip; it restores the lane’s pre-tap play/queue intent after the first launch tap. Use HOLD GRID when you want inspection with no first launch.

The selected note clip is the target for CLIP, KEYS and Swing ±. Clip Player Session explains lane, clip and queue behavior. A clip with saved audio keeps the same launch/stop gestures and has a purple loaded-state LED. Choose NOTES in AUDIO to hear note edits; they do not change the saved take. Whole-clip copy/paste carries notes, automation and attached audio together.

GRID + shift — the function palette (home of copy/paste)

That shift-state top row is the automation ARM MAP — see the arm layer in pictures ↑ (in the shared foundation above).

• COPY (green): arm, then tap a loaded clip → snapshot that CLIP to the clipboard, OR tap a ROW / scene-launch button → snapshot the WHOLE SCENE (all 8 channels at that slot). For a scene target, release SHIFT first so the column shows the ROW ▶ buttons again — while shift is held, that column is still this function palette (clip-pad targets work under either shift state). The clipboard is typed: a clip buffer pulses turquoise, a scene buffer pulses amber. Re-tap COPY while loaded to clear it. (Copy is a snapshot — edit after copying? re-copy.)
• PASTE (green; only arms when the clipboard holds something): arm, then tap a clip pad to drop a clip buffer there, or a ROW / scene-launch button (again with SHIFT released) to full-REPLACE that whole scene from a scene buffer. The paste is type-gated — clip→clip and scene→scene apply; clip→scene and scene→clip are no-ops (nothing is written). A scene paste is a single undo step. Copy/paste carries each clip's recorded automation with it (the envelope belongs to the clip): the destination's old automation is replaced — or cleared when the source clip had none. This Grid palette is the ONLY copy/paste on the Launchpad — clips and scenes, right here; the note editor deliberately has none. (PASTE-REV, the time-reversed clip paste, is a pair-deck hold — see 2 Launchpads; it pastes the automation time-reversed to match.)
• CLIP-DIV (blue): the per-clip divider. Arm, then tap a clip repeatedly to cycle its own clock division (1/8 · 1/4 · 1/2 · 1 · 2x · 4x). While you cycle, the target clip pad itself pulses in time with the chosen division. It writes once when you disarm, applied at the clip's next loop start. A clip's own div overrides its channel's CONTROL-mode RATE.
• SWING+ / SWING− (blue): direct ±2 % nudges (one per press) to the selected channel's swing — odd steps slide late for a shuffle. The buttons ramp purple while you raise and blue while you lower, and both flash green on the nudge that returns swing to dead-centre (straight).
• LENGTH (yellow): arm, tap a loaded clip → its length page opens (a full-device takeover, detailed below; EXIT returns to Grid).
• SCR▲ / SCR▼ (amber): slide the scene-launch window UP (toward scene 1) / DOWN (up to 64 scenes; DOWN lazily reveals one empty scene past your deepest clip; each button dims at its scroll limit). Direct — no arming.

Scene repeats — HOLD GRID + HOLD a scene button

Scenes loop forever by default (repeats = infinite). To make a scene play N times and then auto-launch the next scene down (skipping empty rows; the last content scene keeps looping), set its repeat count with a 3-button, two-hands gesture: HOLD the GRID button (permanent top row) + HOLD one of the 8 scene-launch buttons. The scene press under GRID-hold selects only — it never launches.

• While both buttons are held, tap pad k (1-indexed row-major: upper-left = 1, second in the top row = 2, …) to set k repeats (1–63); pad 64 (bottom-right) sets it back to INFINITE. The bar updates live as you tap, and always shows pads 1..N lit for count N.
• Scroll-aware: the held scene button is position-relative through the scene window — with the column scrolled (SCR▲/▼), button i edits scene offset + i, the same scene it would launch.
• Counts are saved with the scene and travel with whole-scene copy/paste. See scene timing, auto-advance and manual overrides for how repeats behave.
• No collision with the automation arm: that gesture is SHIFT + a top-row button — this one is a GRID hold without shift.

Clip-default probability — SHIFT + a clip pad

Every note has a firing probability, always: until you set a note's own, it uses the clip's probability. Give a WHOLE clip a default firing probability — the chance every note that has no probability of its own rolls each time it plays. HOLD SHIFT and press a clip pad (one that already holds a clip, with no function armed) → the 8×8 becomes a 40-level ORANGE bar over the top 5 rows (the orange echoes the clip-default note colour). Tap pad k = k × 2.5%; pad 40 = 100% (every note fires). The page auto-returns to the grid on that tap; a dark-row tap cancels.

• Precedence: once a note has its OWN probability it uses THAT value in all cases; a note that has none follows the clip default; with neither it always fires. So the default colours only the notes with no probability of their own (they turn orange in the editor); notes using their own probability stay purple (white at effective 100%).
• It gates playback, and a note pins over it: a clip default of 0% silences every note that follows it — but a note set to 100% fires 100% (white) and thereby sits ABOVE a lower clip default, and a note set to 50% fires 50% even under a 100% clip. A note's own probability is used as-is, including exactly 100% (no delete, no special-casing). Setting the clip default to 100% clears the clip default (every note then fires unless it has its own lower value; old clips stay byte-identical).
• Under shift an armed copy / paste / clip-div / length still consumes the clip-pad tap (unchanged); a no-shift tap still launches. Empty pads don't open the page (there's no clip to carry a default). Single-unit only — in Clip Player, right-click a clip pad → note probability.
• The top-right clip pad (physical x=7, y=7) is claimed by the lane-8 arm from every view, so a SHIFT-tap there arms lane 8 rather than opening that clip's default-probability page. Set that clip's default in Clip Player instead: right-click the clip pad → note probability.

LENGTH-EDIT — set an exact clip length

Length = (endBlock−1)×16 + endStep, up to 128. Each clip's length is independent — polymeter is the point — and all playing clips re-align to step 1 when the transport starts (or on a RESET).

Clip-state colours (in the channel's own colour)

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