Sample & Hold

I bought a Launchpad controller from Novation a few years ago, and although it's a great midi interface offering a perfect native remote for Ableton Live sequencer, I couldn't help thinking that this amazing tool could certainly be used in other unexpected ways, thus controlling alternate gears or software. So on the same time, I was both enjoying my Launchpad and drooling to what would have offered at more experimental controller such as [monome device](http://monome.org/devices)... Luckily, Novation made a programming guide available for the Lauchpad, as well as Ableton proposed an extended version of Live integrating Max/MSP (that is called "Max for Live") that would help me satisfy my nerd-est desires. So I started to draft a layout for simple jamming. But I wanted more : my tool would work on any sequencer, with both Mac and Windows platforms, all of this requiring no additional license. Evidently, I got a bunch of new ideas when I started writing for sample-hold.com: I was now dreaming about a VST plugin that would act as a MIDI effect, allowing pure jams with a touch of randomness. I think I've come up with a preliminary version called "LaunchPlay VST". Let's look at it and explain how to use this strange plugin...