Novation Launchpad Question

[WelshDdraig]

Hey everyone!

 

Here's a rather unusual question for you today, but first a backstory:

 

On Black Friday, I picked up a Novation Launchpad Mini (Does exactly the same as the full size, just smaller)

And I use it with Ableton (I don't know music, I just use it to mess around), Thats when the idea came to me...

 

Is it possible to use the Launchpad as a "Macro Pad"? 

Let me explain.

 

At the heart of it, the LaunchPad is nothing but a midi controller which flashes when activated.

But the main matrix has a 8x8 of buttons, each with 3 different colour LEDs (Red, Green and Yellow. A combination of these can make in-between colours such as orange)

Since I mainly use it when messing around in Ableton, it doesn't get too much use.

 

So, I want to give it an extra function and use it as a Macro Launcher for Windows, since my keyboard has some, but not enough for what I want, basically to map shortcuts to it.

As such, is there any software out there that can make the Lauchpad act like a bunch of macro-keys? - BUT still let it function normally in Ableton.

 

When connected to the computer, it shows up like such in Windows and won't do anything until Ableton is launched.

 

As stated, I know this is a weird question, but any help/input would be appreciated. 

 

Thanks