what daw do you use? I run Ableton. Im fine with mapping my own parameters but im trying to figure out what it does initially with their new "programming"
I just received this today and after 5 min worth of registration and software installation I jumped right into Logic Pro. Wow, it changes the experience of you've never used a controller. Also the knobs are super accurate I had no problems dialing in pan to a specific value. It's a great controller
I'd love a full walkthrough of this controller with just Tim solo, if it exists somewhere. This is a great piece of kit, and he's got such comprehensive knowledge and a clear, mellow vibe.
What this does is make me happier that I switched to Bitwig when first came out! I just purchased the 25 earlier this week and the 61 is on the way as a replacement to my other controller.
@@HoldMyBeerFam I'm still rockin' with the 61! It IS still worth it! My 1-2 pinch for production still consists of Maschine and Bitwig Studio. And this controller is perfect for Bitwig!
@@MatrixxSoundlab I'm rockin the 25 as of february. Its pretty legit I just wish I had spent another 30 bucks on more keys. Like the 49 version would be solid for me.
@Nothing Noone We are here cause we wanna hear about it, we don't want him interrupted... We don't wanna finish the video and move on, we want to learn more about this MIDI controller.
@sonicstates Good evening, What about the mapping on Ableton live, it doesn't seem to work for me as in Logic ? How do i get an access to the Default mode (blue one) ? THX
Thank you for this. I own the first version LX 49. I think I'll upgrade because of the improved pad functionality. Can I program chords into the pads just by entering the notes I want on the keyboard and then pressing the pad? Thanks.
The DAW control seems amazing, but I'm kind of worried about the keybed. When he presses down you can see the entire keyboard bend. Really want the synth control but if the keys are bad maybe a separate controller is a better option.
The keys aren't that bad in my experience. Definitely not as nice as a Roland Jupiter 80, but better than most other cheap keyboard controllers I have laid my hands on.
Having watched several You Tube videos I went ahead and purchased the Nektar Impact LX49. I watched several You Tube videos about the Cubase integration with this product and was mega impressed. Was trying to get the Cubase integration set up yesterday and not getting anything further than keyboard and transport controls. The Nektar support docs don't say much and no videos from them on 'how to', they should look at how Focusrite explain their install step by step which I found brilliant and flawless. I don't want to spend days trying to get the product to function . I am considering sending it back due to my frustration. Can anybody offer any input on this? TIA for the same.
Will Sonicstate do a review of the new Pioneer Toraiz sampler? I think it's almost out and their channel has been releasing basic videos. It looks so awesome! I desperately want to get rid of the ES2.
"insanely more" Have you seen the videos on Pioneer's yt channel? There's more to the Toraiz than meets the eye. For me in particular: its intuitive design, touch screen, color coded pads/step sequencer (also I like that it has velocity sensitive pads unlike octatrack), easy splicing, time stretch, all the audio ins and outs, lots of storage space, and the 2 analog filters seems like a great idea. Plus, the whole Project/scene/pattern/track/arrangement/mixer thing sounds like a dream for me.
you do know octotrack does most of the same things, but just lacks a touch screen and colored pads? I'm a dsi fan, but lets not pretend there are not other or better thhings on the market. As an owner of dsi and an elektron device the rytm I'd honestly say I would get elektron over the toraiz because it has samples and analog, but thats just me.
So let us not pretend like we know what the Toraiz does or doesn't. At this point, I would still go with the Toraiz. Playing samples and synths in a scale or slice using pads while easily laying down steps is crucial to my work flow. A touch screen is much better then constant button presses to access things. If the Electron Sampler had touch pads it would be a close call but I would probably still choose Toraiz. Unless more info comes out and it sucks. People are getting Elektron SuperFan on this comment and you don't even know what the Toraiz does!
Just brought this in. I'll edit this comment in a few days as a review/impressions kind of thing for people looking to buy this. Edit: Well. Great MIDI keyboard. Anyone looking for a no headache "out of the box working" keyboard, this is the one. I use Cakewalk Sonar and most VSTs I use are already pre integrated. Audio Mixing is a joy on this device.
alright, ended upp getting me the impact lx 49 plus. everything thing feels nice and sturdy, the pads, knobs, faders, and buttons are good quality. The keys don't feel cheap at all, not to soft or too hard. kind of feel like my motif es and triton pro, but a lttle bit springy, slightly. no probs with installation of drivers for presonus studio one, and there is no drivers for fl studio, just follow the directions for the midi settings in the pdf file and everything should work, that's for fl studio 11 and 12. if I have one critique, a response from nektar support, they said they weren't able to add the soft take over feature, it's not available for studio one, so you have to use the null function the mixer mode to keep the volumes of your tracks to keep from jumping, plus you're not able to press and hold the 9th button and move the 9th fader to adjust the master track, hopefully they'll be able to have that in an update, so in the mean time, i just use my faderport for that. overall , glad with my purchase of this midi controller. highly recommend. yep!
Well. Great MIDI keyboard. Anyone looking for a no headache "out of the box working" keyboard, this is the one. I use Cakewalk Sonar and most VSTs I use are already pre integrated. Audio Mixing is a joy on this device.
The one thing I would like to see changed on this is simple. I would like the mixer to use rotary encoders with soft take over and perhaps an LED meters to show it's current setting in whatever DAW is being used.
daw integration looks great but what about the quality and playability of the keyboard? Please suggest which is better in keyboard quality, Roland a49 or the Nektar keyboard?
how much more money does it cost to add atertouch to a keyboard? i think $250 price range with aftertouch is better deal than 200 sans aftertouch. even if its just monophonic it would have made a big difference
'synth action with a medium tension'' what does this mean? synth action with a medium tension keys? what does this mean? would key of this keyboard same like samson graphte 49 that i have decided to sell and buy a new keyboard? graphite has semi weight keys.. my hand is small and i would like to go for a small keyboard
how to change the velocity of pads on nectar LX25+ . I tried pressing the D4 on the keyboard as mentioned in the user guide.. can you please tell me the entire process to change the pad settings as it is really hard.
I have an old model of impact lx49 and even though I like it I'm disappointed with the durability of the rubber membranes - after few years the membranes on my C and D keys I used to play kick and snare a lot became very clicky on release and the velocity doesn't read properly on the D key anymore. is it common in midi controllers? I'm thinking about getting something higher quality like Arturia Keylab Essential, Panorama T4 or Novation Impulse
Too much Bitwig talk imo. Heard their Cubase integration getting talked quite a bit about earlier, would be nice to know if that's still a thing, or if they've kinda dropped that...
All integration for the existing LX range is maintained (including Cubase) and updated to support the default/user page and direct synthesis parameter mapping. We kept the pricing the same too.
+Tim Chandler Could you please clarify what the actual limitations for this keyboard are when using it with Ableton compared with other popular DAWs that it officially supports? Thanks a lot!
Ableton's MIDI map capabilities are very good - better than most other DAWs, so you can achieve a lot with the LX+ without a script - you just have to do some mapping yourself. We have a lot of Impact LX users already who have registered Live as their main DAW.
Hello there! I am the owner of a LX49+ and I would like to know if it is possible to use the pad as MIDI controlled push-buttons to trigger events in some software like VCV Rack or such. That would be incredibly cool and useful! I haven't found anything about that in the manual and so far any attempt lead me to nothing... Thank you for any suggestions you might give! :-)
I just bought Logic Pro X...... I was about to purchase the Novation Launchkey 25, but the Nektar Impact LX 25+ is looking a bit tempting. Worth the buy? 🤔
Considering whether to get the Nektar Impact LX49+ or the Novation Impulse 49. Both have good faders, knobs etc (even though Novation has 55mm faders vs 30mm from Nektar), transport and so on. The big difference are the keys. I checked the Nektar out and even though they are dynamic the keys feel a little plastic vs the semi-weighted keys of Novation. Also the Novation is much older than the Nektar and I'm wondering if this has any influence on the actuality of its drivers for Windows. I used to have enormous problems with my old controller (M-Audio Axiom 49, never again!) in this field. The price is not a huge dealbreaker as the difference between both is not too big. Compatibility with Reason is assured by both, but I'm worried by the lack of official support on Nektar of Ableton Live, which I also sometimes use. Any ideas/advice?
I have a Novation Impulse right now & after I upgraded Reason, I couldn't get the damn instruments to map anymore. I had to go dig around on their incredibly shitty support site, find the Automap update. Next, I had to go reasonremoter website to get an updated remote file to map just about every Rack Extension there is (including the recently released Noise Engineering REs). I think I spent just last Friday, Saturday, & Sunday night working on the Novation trying to figure out why the pots wouldn't work & the programming software wouldn't map properly. I couldn't figure out how to get it to work with VSTs either. However, Hydlide let me know that the Hamu Newtrols could be used to control other instruments. Assuming that the Hamu RE is mapped for Novation Impulse, then I can use that & CV to map to various dials/knobs in a VST. And trying to figure out how to setup MIDI in Novation Impulse is greek...nothing easy about it & the Automap software sucks if you try to design your own control configuration. I also recently picked up Bitwig a few months ago & my Impulse won't do much with it. So I'm eyeing the Nektar heavily since it can automate both Reason and Bitwig and has very quick assignments you can do yourself. What's more, Nektar actually tells you on their website how they're working on changes, updates, or problems. Whereas the Novation website has this abandoned feel to its products to it, which makes me think it's running on auto-pilot right into a site shutdown. The weighted keys on the Novation, MIDI In/Out jacks, arpeggiator, plus an input for expression & sustain are the only things keeping me from getting rid of it. If I get a Minibrute 2S in the future & want to control it with a MIDI controller, the Novation could be put to use in that capacity. Or just playing the notes & so on. But if you want to sweat over trying to get the Mixer & Controller to work with the DAW rather than make music, it's a black art for the Novation. I was lucky to stumble onto the things that I did find for it to get mine working normally with Reason (up to a point anyway). However, the DAW Integration is weak, so I need something that works well out of the box. The price is also far better...I'd have been a lot happier now with the Nektar than the Novation if I bought a Nektar last year. Just based on the demo of the Nektar with Reason and Bitwig, you can tell that they put a great deal of effort into making it effortless. And that's what I want! The Novation is more of a project now....but I can use it in the interim until my Nektar gets here (I actually have two systems for music production with one being portable that I'll relegate to one of these 49-key MIDI controllers & the other will be my main).
Anyone know if the velocity response of the sharps has been altered over the original lx? I have the lx49 and love it, but sharp keys always seem a little less responsive, almost like it's because the key is shorter so the moment and force applied is therefore lower...
Phil Walker yes It has been fixed! I just picked up the 88 version and I tested that for several hours! I bought mine from Thomann Europe. Some people still complain of the problem particularly those based in America or Asia! No issues at all. Very good buy!
I've read that on NEKTAR website they made available a script to provide Ableton Live integration. Not sure what you mean by "custom" integration though, and if that is covered too (isn't it obvious that once the keyboard can work with a given DAW then it controls can be remapped, in a custom way?). Anyway, I am new to midi controllers and I am planning buying one, but I am a bit puzzled about picking this NEKTAR or a M-audio Oxygen MK4 (also 49 keys). Any quick advice anyone? Thanks a lot!
+alfiozzz I'm sorry, I didn't mean custom remapping, that can be done with any midi controller in Ableton (and many other DAWs) anyway. I meant the integration of Ableton Live in the Nektar software. Nektar provides an Ableton Script, but that's handled within Ableton and can be a lot more limiting. Maybe it works maybe not, I'd have to see someone demo/review it with Live.
+Ton Trayger Hmm.. I still don't understand. What do you mean by integration of Ableton in Nektar software? Are you talking about the "8 Tracks" DAW that Netktar ships with the keyboard not being able to interact with Ableton? I'm really interested in this topic because I use Ableton and I would like to understand what the actual limitations are. I thought that the script they provide would allow the keyboard to auto configure and auto map itself with Ableton as it does already with other DAWs.. Is this wrong? If this can be done, what is it then that is not possible to do? Or what you think it might not be possible to do? I hope you can take the time to clarify these points, thanks a lot!!
+alfiozzz No, "8-Track" is a lite version of Bitwig which is included if you buy this nektar keyboard. What I mean (and was also mentioned by the guy in the video) is the hidden bit of software that makes this keyboard work together with the listed DAWs so much better than any other midi controller. ("Nektar DAW Integration custom designed for Bitwig, Cubase, Digital Performer, FL Studio, GarageBand, Logic, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason, Sonar and Studio One takes Impact LX+ way beyond functionality normally offered by a USB MIDI controller keyboard." -quote from Nektar website.) For any other DAW (including Ableton) it works like a regular midi controller, plus they give you this Ableton Script that lets Ableton map the midi controller values to the correct things in Ableton. I don't know all the possibilities of Ableton Scripts (it's a programming interface for hardware developers, not publicly specified), but I could imagine for example that the "select next track"-buttons wouldnt work or that the knobs wouldn't automap as nicely, since Ableton's automapping would apply. And I've had some experience with Abletons automapping (using Ableton Scripts for my stupidly old Midiman Oxygen8 keyboard). It does react quite funky for most plugins. Also in the video it was said that Nektars automapping system would save custom mappings per plugin, and I know for sure Ableton's does not once per plugin but you'd have to do it again in every new project. However as I said, I don't know for sure what is posible with Ableton Scripts and how it works with this Nektar controller. And I'm probably being very nitpicky and I don't know what you want to use it for, maybe for you it would suffice. But I personally would wait until someone did a review of how well it works with Ableton. I hope I could help you.
Thanks for explaining. So basically there are two levels of integration: - mapping with Remote Midi scripts (the Ableton Script we were talking about) - native auto-mapping, where the DAW and the controller "collaborate" to offer a more accurate and in-deep integration. Correct? So I was gonna say that our best hope is to wait for Nektar to expand the "hidden bit of software" of the LX 49+ to also support Ableton Live, but then I found the following from this forum page audiosex.pro/threads/nektar-impact-lx49-for-ableton-9-5.23180/: --- Last year at Musikmesse, I had a nice chat with Tim Chandler about the panorama keyboard. Obviously, you're asking about another controller [he had asked about the Impact LX] but we spoke about Ableton and Nektar supporting them or not supporting them in general. The thing is that Nektar doesn't list Ableton Live as supported DAW because Ableton doesn't open their API (or whatever) to Nektar, so they are not able to program native support for Ableton Live into Nektar's software. This is apparrently different with other companies which thus appear on said list. So there is no official support for Ableton Live as long as Ableton remains so restrictive, but there are unofficial scripts that enable Nektar products to work with Ableton Live. --- And also this, from their facebook page: facebook.com/NektarTech/videos/1344663925561722/?comment_id=1345059228855525 --- Q: Will Ableton Live ever be natively supported? A: We'd love to, but it's not likely unfortunately. --- Now, If this controller can't achieve a convenient DAW (Ableton Live) integration, does it still have some advantages compared other controllers in the same price range, for example M-Audio Oxygen 49?
Yes. Since this video we added 'grab' which allows you to quickly assign any control on LX+ to any param on the onscreen instrument simply by holding SHIFT on LX+ and selecting the param to control.
The manual says that after touch is assignable to the pitch or mod wheel, but I don’t get how that would work.. I’d like to find a shop that has one, so I can try that out..
I am new to midi controllers and I am planning buying one, but I am a bit puzzled about picking this NEKTAR or a M-audio Oxygen MK4 (also 49 keys). Any quick advice anyone? Thanks a lot!
This is way better integration you'll spend a lot of time mapping knobs in every project in anything else and it's super cheap . A no brainer especially if your pretty new and want it to automatically map knobs for stuff
@@aaalllfff seems so nektar stuff is still best faw integration across dozen DAWs except Ableton. They write a ton of scripts for 100s of vsts for example it's a massive job depends on your DAW the I ordered an 88plus cause it's cheap and we'll integrated. You go try whatever you like
