I get my replacement/tested LCXL3 today - just in time for the new firmware drop:
Launch Control XL’s v1.1 firmware update is here, bringing built-in support for more DAWs via Mackie HUI, more flexible MIDI routing, adjustable acceleration curves for encoders, fader pickup and preview, and faster Custom Mode selection.
the v1.1 update seems to bring in nice new features
If I had to pick a few:
-being able to preview fader assignments by holding shift
-added a pickup mode for faders
-mode button can now be held to be momentary instead of toggle
-endoder acceleration can be set to slow, normal or fast
there are also changes to the way the midi in works and a mackie mode for unsupported DAWs
https://components.novationmusic.com/launch-control-xl-3/updates
-being able to preview fader assignments by holding shift
What does that mean?
Sadly they did not implement my reset all to zero idea 
I expect it just shows the value, same as shift+encoder did
It’s funny they’ve added:
- The Mode button can now be held to function as a momentary button, allowing for faster Custom Mode switching
as that was already in the 1.0 manual but didn’t work. I scratched my head for a while wondering what I was doing wrong.
It means that If you hold shift and move the fader, you don’t change the value, you just see what the fader is assigned to plus the value. (for example “Track 2 Delay” “94”)
It can be useful when you switch from one custom mode to another as you can avoid value jumps
I hope all your encoders work fine this time
For info, if you want to change the fader mode to “pick up” (with the V1.1 firmware update), you need to hold shift and both left and right “track” buttons to access the settings (it wasn’ t mentioned in the patch notes)
minor note, you don’t need to hold shift to get to settings, just left and right
Just a quick followup that my fourth LCXL3, the one swapped by novation direct and tested before send-out, is working fine. Very impressed with the support from them and glad I didn’t make do with one of the previous 3 with erratic encoders.
I haven’t followed the thread (and I have a, seemingly, functional LC3) but may I ask what was wrong with all your units?
They had a faulty encoder each, which was easy to spot when turning the encoders quickly as they didn’t just cleanly go 0-127-0, they would sometimes only go 0-40 or so, and would sometimes drop/gain in value opposite to the quickly turned direction.
Here’s a video of what it looked like - res was a working encoder, freq was a faulty one being turned exactly the same way.
Thanks to whoever was talking upthread about using custom templates to control performance macros rather than the parameters themselves. I’ve gone down that route, and it is working perfectly.
I had already been using the performance macros on my Analog Keys, and I hadn’t realised how easy it is to replicate those on a Digitone 1 just by using Mod Wheel and Breath Control (CC 1 and 2) mapped to encoders for each track.
I am now working with a setup of my AK and DN1, with two encoders assigned to each of the four tracks on each device, with mixer volumes of the 8 tracks on the faders, and 2 encoders devoted to the FX track mixer volumes for each device.
This means that I can set up a drone across both devices, and do a whole performance just by controlling the LCXL3, multitracked into Ableton Live.
Sounds like a nice combo. 4 tracks + 4 tracks and each track gets 2 macros and a volume.
You’re gonna have a lot of fun with that setup.
Yeah it’s quite powerful, I’m really pleased how it turned out.
I need to finish setting it up by turning the push buttons into keystrokes for switching views in Live, but other than that it’s the first time I’ve been happy trying to manually control drone stuff on Elektron gear. So often in the past I’ve been in a situation where I wanted to change values simultaneously, but they are over multiple pages.
Anyone got case/bag recommendations for this?
Same. The majority of Amazon returns go straight to landfill, in the case of more valuable items like this they are probably just sold off to third parties.
What I suspect sometimes happens is that third parties buy up the returns then sell them as a marketplace seller, so they re-enter the pool of products.
They should be listed as used but I guess sometimes unscrupulous people don’t do that if they think they can get away with it.
Also never had the problem in the UK so could be a problem more in some territories.
Is this controller an overkill if all I want is basically dedicated knobs to control DN2/DT2 macros? What would be a good alternative for this (important that it works for both devices simultaneously) ?
It’s an ideal controller for that, and there isn’t really anything better value for it either as far as I can see.
