Nektar Panorama P1 MIDI Keyboard - Black/White

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Reaching for the mouse to make a simple EQ or plugin parameter tweak can take the focus away from the creative process when navigating different windows. e. they need to be connected to a sound-producing device or computer to be of use), they do provide a number of different controls for deep integration with your favourite software.

On the Panorama you see all available parameters for all plugins - UAD, native, 3rd party - but you have to see them on your display to know where they are and learn them that way. Like any hardware control surface, the biggest obstacle to getting the best from it comes it two forms: firstly, the initial technical configuration and, secondly, retraining your brain to reach for the controller rather than your mouse. Velocity Curve*: This allows you to select the keyboard velocity response curve that suits your playing style. Nektarine is included with your Nektar software download and can be run alongside Studio One DAW integration. Can you make it so P1 can do what Console 1 does (for the most part), but with your own native plugins?It’s compact, packs in a very respectable range of faders, rotary knobs and buttons, comes with dedicated support for Cubase (my main DAW) and Reason, and (compared to some of the competition anyway) is not particularly expensive. Panorama's simple menu structure and instant mapping offer direct access to parameters that normally live in separate application windows. If you have a footpedal connected to the P1’s rear panel you can also set the function that this controls. if its used either in windows or reaper the midi port will not be available for you to set up as a control surface. However, I'm very much looking forward to delving deeper in the near future; with Bitwig, the Panorama can even function as a step sequencer, which is something that I will be testing out very soon.

Using the Data encoder (O) you can choose any of the 5 curves: Soft2, Soft1, Standard, Hard1, Hard2 and Fixed. When you touch it is it immediately active or does it have to cross the threshold of the previous setting to activate? With a built-in display and four modes of operation, the Nektar Panorama P1 is intended to be a complete solution for controlling your DAW. Or does it work that once you select a track and you want it louder, you turn the knob to the right and it will just increase from there?

The main reason I got the P6 is so when I'm working on a part I don't need to turn back to the computer to adjust a parmeter (or whatever) then turn back to the keyboard. In most of the VSTis I experimented with (Steinberg and third party), there were multiple pages of parameters you could control, but the TFT defaults to showing eight parameters and these are linked to the uppermost eight encoders.

Take this as an example: let's say that you are using an encoder with a fixed start and end point (i. I have almost the entire UAD catalog so I like I have all of them mapped to my liking including the tapes and verbs and all the eccentric plugins that are not part of a channel strip. Console 1 zooms in on the entire channel strip with more than 8 encoders so easy access without paging and gives direct mapping to a constant set of parameters with no hardware visual display but enables your muscle memory to learn where each parameter is so it becomes second nature.However, there will also be a red marker on each fader on the display, which will indicate the position of the corresponding physical fader. Whatever the issue or the cause, Panorama can take care of all of the above with a single push of the Panic button. It does of course take time to achieve such deep integration with any DAW though and the Panorama team want to make sure that they get it just right, so we'll forgive them for building in small steps won't we?

Whilst I have favoured keyboards with a heavier feel in the past (Akai's MPK range springs to mind), I always found that their firm response forced me to play more aggressively than I sometimes wanted to.Unfortunately I can't remember what mode he was in, but when Tim demonstrated setting up the pads, he tapped a couple of buttons and then it was simply a case of pressing the pad that you wanted to assign a sound to and then pressing the keyboard key that played the desired sound. For Bitwig Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Logic Pro, Reaper, Reason ans Studio One users, Panorama is a dream come true.