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Bottom row

The bottom row of buttons on the LaunchControl XL (the lower of the two rows beneath the faders) primarily controls sequencer autodrops. The full autodrop reference is Autodrops. This page documents the non-autodrop functions that the same buttons expose when a modifier is held.

Button layout

The LC bottom row has 7 sequencer buttons, one per column, matching the top mute row. They are labelled here as the autodrop buttons for sequencer 1–7 (U1/U3/U5 templates) or sequencer 9–15 (U2/U4/U6 templates). The eighth button in the row is not a sequencer: it is the 8B modifier (see LaunchControl modifier buttons).

Non-Autodrop Functions

When a modifier is held while pressing a bottom-row button, the autodrop action is replaced:

LC modifier held Bottom row action
(none) Autodrop cue (see Autodrops)
SHIFT Decrement sequencer octave for that column’s seq (down to −4). Tap repeatedly to step down.
MUTE Decrement keyboard octave for that column’s seq (down to 0).
REC ARM 16-bar autodrop cue (autodrop fires and lasts a full 16-bar cycle)

These functions mirror the top-row modifier behaviour but in the downward direction: SHIFT/MUTE on top row increment, SHIFT/MUTE on bottom row decrement.

Octave ranges

Octave type Range
Sequencer octave −4 to +4
Keyboard (jam kbd) octave 0 to +8

LED colours

Bottom-row LED colours reflect the sequencer autodrop state, using the same colours as the top row:

State Bottom row LED
No autodrop pending Off
Cued to mute-drop Flashing off/red
Mute-drop running Red
Cued to CC drop Flashing off/yellow
CC drop running Yellow
Cued to note drop Flashing off/orange
Note drop running Orange
Cued to mute on the 16 Flashing off/green
Cued to unmute on the 16 Yellow

Cross-References