Soundmachine

Create a layout of cool audio samples and have them automatically sync to your Launchpad for looping!

Features

• Web Interface for audio sample management.

• Add tags, bpm (auto detected based on filename) and mark samples as favourite. And you can of cause listen to the samples in the browser.

• Sort and search library by tags, bpm or if they are used.

• Arrange samples on the launchpad. Colours are picked with tags and can be overwritten to a custom colour.

• Create layers to better organise based on bpm, mood or whatever you like. Layers can be switched between on the launchpad itself.

• Basic controls on the launchpad itself: Move samples around, delete and mark favourite.

• Should work with any audio filetype that ffmpeg can handle.

Compatible Launchpads

• Launchpad Pro

Installation

Follow Dev setup for now. But want to create docker image.

Dev setup

Dependencies

The easiest is to use Mise. It with help you install the dependencies:

• Python
• pnpm
• uv
• black
• git

Then run git clone git@github.com:Alfenstein8/soundmachine.git

Running Server

The server hosts the web application and manages the sample library.

1. cd server
2. mise trust && mise i
3. pnpm i
4. touch local.db
5. pnpm db:migrate
6. pnpm dev

Running Client

The client is the device that connects the launchpad and plays the audio.

1. cd client
2. mise trust && mise i (or install dependencies manually. See mise.toml)
3. uv run main.py

Database ER-Diagram

Troubleshooting

GettingCannot access file /usr/local/share/alsa/alsa.conf on the launchpad

sudo mkdir  /usr/local/share/alsa
sudo ln -s /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf /usr/local/share/alsa/alsa.conf