Apollo Studio

Lights: Apollo Studio

Apollo Studio is a standalone lights software, developed my Mat1jaczyyy and released in 2019. It allows launchpad artists to make MidiExt-esque lights in a chain lights production style.

Apollo Studio also has some quality-of-life devices baked in, such as rotate, depths, and more. Aside from that, Apollo Studio also supports the entire colour limit on launchpads. This is because it handles lightshows and sends them to the Launchpad in System Exlusive (SysEx) code rather than midi, bypassing the 127 velocity values that traditional midi has.

Additionally, lightshows displayed on the Launchpad through Apollo Studio have virtually unlimited frames-per-second (capped at 500fps). This makes it more lightweight and faster than Ableton lights, taking less RAM and is more easy on lower-end devices.

Apollo Studio has an entire guide on how it can be used, made by the creator himself.

Making chain lights is similar to making lights in Apollo Studio. However instead of plugins such as rotate and copy, Ableton Midi Effects such as arpeggiator and velocity are used. Chain lights are heavily avoided due to their high RAM and processing power usage, and being outright tedious to make.

And with that, you have a fully complete Launchpad performance, ready to be recorded and uploaded online! I hope you enjoyed reading this section and learnt a thing or two from it. I have plans to make a full text-based (and possibly video-based) tutorial on making a Launchpad Performance from scratch, including editing tips and tricks. Until then!