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Minilab3

A pad-multiplexer for Arturia's Minilab3 & VCV Rack Minilab3

The VCV Rack modules:

Minilab3

Multiplexer?

Minilab3

Imagine you had hundreds of MIDI knobs and mod wheels.

For each pad on the Minilab3, pressing it will get you a whole new set of the non-pad surfaces.

As an example, say I just twist the Minilab3's first knob. We get red activity. But if I hold down the first pad, an independently tracked blue knob value comes out of the expander module.

Virtual Knobs = Pads x Knobs

The Aturia Minilab3 has 8 pads, so that's already 64 logical knobs.

8 pads configuration

Buuuut, it has two banks of pads making for 16 pads, or 128 logical knobs!

16 pads configuration

And technically, there's 15 available channels so you could take it to 1,920 knobs...

15 channels configuration

...but your computer would probably explode first lol.

Install Minilab3

from the VCV Library

Learn to Use

from the Documentation