Nektar Panorama P1 MIDI Keyboard - Black/White

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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. Setup: Opens a window from which you can select a menu item that contains parameters you would like to edit. It’s rare, but every now and then something unexpected can happen and communication between two MIDI devices can become confused. 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.Given the complexity of the controllers, you will need to spend a few minutes configuring it with your system and make sure that you follow a fairly lengthly set of instructions, which may intimidate the less technical minded or computer savvy out there. As you control different parameters in Studio One using the same fader controls, a fader’s physical position can be at a different value position than the parameter you are controlling.

Let's imagine that in this scenario, the first fixed fader is controlling our track 1 level, which we set at 0dB. 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.You can select your track, select your insert point and scroll through your entire list of plug-ins using only the controls and screen of the Panorama! In addition to the encoders and sliders, there are also a number of buttons that you can use to carry out specific functions depending on which mode you are in. Again, it's a bit tedious, requires a bit of guess work and is something that has always slightly frustrated me with other controllers. Maps can be easily tweaked by activating the “Learn” function from the hardware and even preset browsing is supported via Panorama’s dedicated “Patch -/+” buttons for internal instruments and plugins that use Studio One’s patch manager. In all these various operations, the TFT provides very detailed feedback to help you see exactly what parameters you are controlling with the P1 hardware.