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FemtoFigo
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Hi,
I am having issues to find the right color for a pad. The pad does light up. According to the LaunchPad pro Mk2 Programmers manual fot example, when the feedback is 5 it should light up RED, but it light up WHITE.
Can semone help me
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GGGss
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With which emulation mode are you working?
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FemtoFigo
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FemtoFigo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:03 pmMIDI
Do you know what SysEx messages are? You referenced the programmer's manual; it contains everything.
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.... when the feedback is 5 it should light up RED, but it light up WHITE.

When you check the on line manual for the MIDI plugin (https://docs.qlcplus.org/v4/plugins/midi) you need to understand that the plug in does a "MIDI - DMX conversion".
Since the MIDI protocol works in a range of 0-127 values, and QLC+ works in the DMX range of 0-255, the MDI values used by your Launchpad are doubled to become DMX values to be used witihin QLC+.

If you want your pad to light up as "Red 100%", you need to use DMX value 10 (that will be converted to MIDI Value 5).
If you use DMX value 5, it will be converted to MIDI Value 2, which will light your pad as "white 60%".
This might explain the unexpected behaviour.




As of QLC+ version 4.13.0 https://www.qlcplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17141 there has been a major improvement on the handling off Feedback Values :
Profile Editor and Feedback Panel: The input profile editor and feedback panel have been upgraded with new features, including color and channel selection, making it easier to manage
Version 4.1.3.0 already comes with an updated Input Profile for the AKAi APC mini MK2 (and maybe some other popular MIDI controllers), but not for the LaunchPad Pro.
Freasy (Jan F) later provided some Input Profiles for Novation LaunchPads https://www.qlcplus.org/forum/viewtopic ... 207#p76207, but not for the LaunchPad Pro.

As i own a Novation LaunchPad MK2, i just copied the Color Table from Freasy's Input profile (just a copy paste in NotePad) to my profile and it works fine.
I did the same thing for the Launchpad Pro Input profile. As i do not own a Launchpad Pro i cannot test it, but it is very likely that it will work the same way.
I suggest you give it a try:
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