Premium Only Content

Novation Launchpad Pro Mk III Repaired (Midi Sequencer)
So I bought this expensive bit of kit like 18 months ago to be the "brain" of my hardware synthesizers but it was rather expensvive and it turns out its a total nightmare to figure out how to use as "Standalone" (I dont want to use ANY computers in my music setup, I want it ALL analogue).
So anyway I couldnt figure out how to use it (or have the time to) and most tutorials online are about how to use it with Ableton Live (PC Software).
As I only use Ableton Live for the recording part, not the arrangement/composition or control of my synthezisers I needed something like this and because most people are PC based music producers (they lack the style or doing it the difficult way), there are ZERO tutorials on how to use it for hardware setups insread of PC.
Long story short, it sat there gathering nicotine stains and not getting used, so I wanted to sell it and buy something less alien to use for my hardware setup.
Anyways, I plugged it in to use after scrubbin the velocity pads clean with a cream cleaner as suggested by a.i (just use a.i bro) none of the fucking buttons worked at all and I was going to have to send it to Novation for repair or a replacement.
I then realised that cream cleaners are powder based and though it may look clean on the outside, there could be another issue.
Now opening it up would void the warranty, but if it was my fault, I would lose the warranty anyway and it would cost me just as much as I paid to repair it.
I cant afford £350 for another that I was going to sell anyway.
So, I opened it up (No instructions on how to do it online btw, its a very new to the market specialised piece of hardware).
Got it open and it looked like this nightmare. The cream cleaner (I used sparingly btw) had leaked in and had burst a fluid battery component.
So the battery acid had ate into the capacitive touch and none of the 64 touch sensitive velocity pads were working.
Also, the cream cleaner and battery acid had stripped away the carbon pads used for the capacitive touch parts of the velocity pads so contact wouldnt work for the 2056 layers of sensitivity for each pad.
So I neautralised the battery acid with a lye mix and used 80% isopropyl mix to remove the lye and the cream cleaner.
I bathed the velocity pads in Motorcycle degreaser (for the nicotine staining on the rubber) over night.
Changed over 4 destroyed capacitors in the circuit and then used a stick of sketching charcoal (for drawing) I turned into a very fine powder (its pure carbon).
I applied the carbon from the charcoal sticks to the capacitive touch components where the carbon had been stripped and reassembled.
Done!
-
4:00:27
Plazma
8 days agoSunday Relaxing Drive & Chat
363 -
LIVE
Side Scrollers Podcast
1 day ago🔴SIDE SCROLLERS FUND-A-THON🔴DAY 2🔴100% REVENUE HELPS CHANGE CULTURE!
1,486 watching -
LIVE
Rebel News
31 minutes agoCarney 'controlling' Trump, Alberta municipal elxns, Too many new Canadians | Rebel Roundup
246 watching -
LIVE
Neil McCoy-Ward
53 minutes ago⚠️ They’re Applauding the Collapse – Let That Sink In... 🔥
99 watching -
LIVE
TheAlecLaceShow
1 hour agoNo Kings Protests EXPOSE Leftists | Ballroom Meltdown | Guest: Chris Salcedo | The Alec Lace Show
26 watching -
LIVE
LFA TV
14 hours agoLIVE & BREAKING NEWS! | TUESDAY 10/21/25
3,100 watching -
1:00:30
VINCE
4 hours agoHere's What REALLY Happened During This Weekend's Chaos | Episode 151 - 10/21/25
151K128 -
LIVE
The Mel K Show
1 hour agoMORNINGS WITH MEL K - The Battle for Your Brain the "Donald Trump" Psyop - 10-20-25
692 watching -
LIVE
The Shannon Joy Show
2 hours agoRFK & GOP Fast Track A Biometric Data Heist. Has MAHA Been Hijacked By Tech Bros? W/ Aaron Day
200 watching -
DVR
Daniel Davis Deep Dive
4 hours agoCol Doug Macgregor LIVE Today 12:00p est
7.82K