This software has been discontinued due to lack of community support. The repository will be retained for archival purposes.

Lightpad

Software Designed, Developed, and Published by Gooborg Studios (Vinyl Darkscratch, Light Apacha), © 2018 under a GNU General Public License. Additional support from LaunchpadFun.

Dependencies

• A C++11 compiler
• CMake
• wxWidgets
• GraphicsMagick
• RtMidi
• LibMidifile (submodule)
• GooCore (submodule)
• HOWL (submodule)
• LibMagic (optional)

Build and Installation

Lightpad has four executables: main, timeline, midiprobe, and midiout. Main is just what it sounds like, it's the main application, bringing together all of it's features. Timeline is a teast program to demo the timeline on it's own. Midiprobe and midiout focus specifically on MIDI connectivity, with the first providing a list of available MIDI I/O ports, and the second playing a test file to the Launchpad, while also telling a pressed button to pulse a random color.

Lightpad utilizes CMake as it's buildscript. To compile and run Lightpad, type the following commands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. && make -j8
./bin/lightpad[.exe]
./bin/timeline[.exe]
./bin/midiprobe[.exe]
./bin/midiout[.exe]

Features

(Work In Progress List)

• Fast switching between projects and files
• Looping animation playback
• On-screen Launchpad to emulate animations
• Connectivity with a physical Launchpad
• RGB color to closest velocity match
• Automatic saving (not implemented yet)
• Integration with Exige's MIDI Extension
• Export to a new Ableton Live project (not implemented yet)
• More to come!

Compatibility

The software is mainly developed on a 2016 MacBook Pro (touch bar), 2.7GHz Intel i7 with Integrated Graphics and a Radeon Pro 460 (4GB VRAM). The program is not using the GPU as of yet, which lets us emulate a less powerful machine using CPU rendering.

Supported Operating Systems:

• Mac OS
• Windows (implementing)
• Linux/Unix (implementing)