Novation Launchpad for iPad arrives

Another free iPad app from Novation. Here's the app's description:

Want to make and remix music?

The Novation Launchpad is an easy to use app for iPad that will have you making beats and music instantly. It comes with eight ready-to-perform sessions that span different musical genres. You can re-combine the loops and sounds included in these sessions within the multi-colour Launchpad grid to make and remix your own music. The built-in time stretching always keeps you locked into the beat so your loops don't go out of time.

The app follows some of the key features from the renowned 'Launchpad' hardware, now used by many of the worlds famous DJs, producers and performers, but brings it to a new level of simplicity and fun.

8 volume sliders allow quick volume changes and simple FX modes offer cool DJ effects such as repeater and filter effects, adding fun ways to remix your music and make your performance unique.

Making music has never been so much fun.

Features:

• 8x6 Launchpad grid for triggering up to 8 loops and sounds at a time
• 8 volume sliders and 8 filter sliders
• FX section for adding repeat and synced filter effects
• Premium content library from Loopmasters
• Load new complete sessions and sounds
• Global Tempo change
• Edit mode for loading samples
• Autosave - never lose your sessions

The Launchpad iPad app is designed to work alongside the Novation Launchkey iPad app. A powerful and unique synthesiser which uses interactive, hands-on graphics to give you a fast and fun way to add synth lines to your music.

Novation Launchpad is for iPad 2 and above (including iPad Mini) and requires iOS5 or later.

Novation Launchpad is an iPad app and is not compatible with iPhone or iPod Touch.