Hi,
I'm really glad to announce the release of r_cycle, a project I've been working on recently, initially presented at the end of last year in London in the form of a workshop. r_cycle is a Pd (Vanilla) library developed to work with Launchpads (old and new) that can also be used for other purposes (of course it's open source). r_cycle allows users to interact with the Launchpad controllers and create widgets on the device on-the-fly. For example in your Pd patch you create a [KEYBOARD] object and this will appear on the Launchpad, you delete the object in Pd and this disappears on the Launchpad. You press a pad that is part of the widget and the object returns some value in Pd. The arguments of the object determine its characteristics (position, pitch, color, etc.). r_cycle doesn't only include "widgets" but audio and MIDI objects as well, simple things that made my life easier and I thought would be worth sharing. You can find more info here: https://novationmusic.com/en/news/hack-making-music and a simple introduction video here: https://vimeo.com/442976991
Cheers, Mario