Nektar Panorama P1 MIDI Keyboard - Black/White

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I only have experience with Logic and you can custom map plugins - all the uad plugins and virtual instruments. For Cubase users, Steinberg’s CMC series of USB controls also offer an affordable and customisable solution.

After hooking a Panorama P4 keyboard, Panorama P1 control surface and Reason Balance interface up to his Mac computer, Tim proceeded to demonstrate how their products could significantly improve your workflow, whatever software you are using. When using these DAWs you can even use the Panorama's controls and bright screen to do things such as load plug-ins into insert slots in your tracks without looking at your computer! But it's also very light and rather cheap so no biggie and I don't think it's a problem in the sense that it'd break, just that it feels a bit cheap. Despite repeating the process as documented in the Quick Start manual and on the Nektar web site a number of times, I couldn’t get a working configuration.In addition, there is a large (86mm) TFT display, three sets of buttons for navigating within the display and switching between the P1’s various modes, and a single ‘data’ encoder for adjusting parameters or scrolling through menus.

Time to mention another impressive pad feature of the P4 and P6 keyboard controllers and that's the scale feature. In addition the deep instrument and device control integration technology created by Nektar for Cubase and Reason enables transparent control, as if you were operating hardware. Factory patches for most of the popular instrument plugins are instantly available with minimum setup. g. Novation's SL MkII keyboards and Zero SL MkII control surface), I personally prefer the endless encoder approach where possible.

It’s rare, but every now and then something unexpected can happen and communication between two MIDI devices can become confused. However, any zone or control set to a fixed MIDI channel (1-16) will continue to transmit on its assigned MIDI channel.

Of course, if you are adjusting single track levels with a P4 or P6 controller then the quickest way to do it would be to simply select the track that you want to alter and use the motorised fader to set your new level.The quality of the controls on my current MIDI keyboard, the Akai MPK49 was something that had a huge impact on me purchasing it for this very reason. Even if you're not a Reason or Cubase user, Panoramas still provide you with touches of magic that you wouldn't get with other controllers. An unrivalled amount of assignable controls makes Panorama the most comprehensive and fully featured MIDI controller around. However, should you feel the need to go deeper, each Panorama controller provides 5 buttons underneath the screen for making selections and a data encoder for scrolling. As I mentioned, I didn't even have to look at my computer screen to do this because all the relevant information was displayed on the Panorama itself.