AURA’s 16 RGB-illuminated pads are nice for finger drumming and set off on the lightest contact. Even higher, every part is about up for you already when working the AURA Beat Composer with Nektarine – together with mapping for a lot of VST, VST3 and AU drum devices. The pads on this MIDI Pad Controller are additionally extremely customizable: Tweak pad sensitivity to your wants and enjoying fashion by selecting one in all 4 totally different velocity curves with adjustable bias parameter. Pad stress is assignable to Aftertouch, Pitch Bend or different MIDI CCs. And you cannot solely set a devoted MIDI channel for every pad, you’ll be able to even route the MIDI In notice to a unique MIDI notice (eg. when enjoying a multi-sound plugin, and desirous to browse the sounds in that patch from one pad). AURA’s on-board Pad Repeat engine is straight accessible, providing a devoted on/off button and settings menu. Use Repeat to create rolls or different percussive traces, that will be exhausting to play by hand. The repeat settings are extremely customizable with realtime parameters for groove and pace management – all proper beneath your fingertips on AURA’s 8 potentiometers. In search of some prompt Lure-style hihat traces? The primary 6 RGB LED buttons proper above the show change repeat charges in realtime. Create actually dynamic rolls through the use of pad stress to regulate velocity whereas altering the repeat charges with the LED buttons. Different parameters embody Repeat Charge, Gate, Accent Interval, Accent Velocity Offset, Swing, Set off Mode and Clock Supply. The on-board {hardware} step sequencer is a superb instrument for inventive beat composition. Press AURA’s ‘SEQ’ button and the 16 LED buttons under the pots turn out to be the a lot liked traditional 16-step programming interface. 16 Collections of 16 patterns every present loads of room on your groove concepts. Every sample (one per pad) has a complete of as much as 64 steps break up throughout 4 components. AURA’s sequencer is all about interplay and efficiency: Components could also be triggered in any mixture at any time, so you’ll be able to create new variations very intuitively. Every sample, and even every half in a sample, can have a unique size – massively simplifying the creation of poly-rhythms. Reassigning patterns to new sounds can be simple: As there may be one sample per pad, it’s only a matter of including a slot in Nektarine with a brand new plugin – and the brand new sound is enjoying for that pad and sample. You don’t even should cease the sequencer to do that. Realtime enhancing: Change the Play Charge, dial in a hard and fast Velocity and Accent Degree Offset, set a Size for the occasions or add Swing for an extra-helping of groove. Many of those options go all the best way all the way down to step stage. Final Step means that you can alter the step size for every of a sample’s components independently. Energy consumer options: Dive as deep as you want – many parameters may be edited with as much as step stage precision. Merely choose the sample, half and steps you need and alter the values for one or a number of alternatives on the identical time. Group enhancing of Velocity, Play Charge or Gate Size throughout 4 components or patterns in teams of 8 patterns on the identical time can be potential. An effective way to verify and edit values throughout a number of steps with out having to pick them first. Synchronization: Inside and exterior clock modes guarantee excellent sync with the skin world. AURA and the sequencer may be used stand-alone with exterior MIDI devices linked on to the MIDI Out jack. In fact you’ll be able to load an instrument plugin onto a observe in your DAW and play it immediately – however the enjoyable actually begins, whenever you make your individual kits & sounds by combining a number of plugins in Nektarine: Create kits with as much as 16 totally different instrument plugins, 64 insert FX-plugins and a further 4 ship FX. All of this enjoying on one observe in your DAW. And we’re speaking any VST, VST3 or AU plugin right here – together with whole recall on your package. Merely load the Nektarine plugin into any DAW that’s appropriate with VST, VST3, AU or AAX (which means just about any present DAW, be it Ableton, Professional Instruments, Cubase, Logic, Bitwig or Studio One), scan your plugins and you’re good to go: AURA can now management your put in VST and AU plugins straight from the {hardware}! Present instrument patches will also be imported into Nektarine’s highly effective database (for a lot of instrument plugins we provide their manufacturing unit patches as downloads prepared for import). And earlier than we neglect: AURA features a license for the Nektarine stand-alone software. This allows you to create beats simply by sequencing your instrument plugins straight from AURA, drum-machine-style: get groovin’! Begin by loading a multi-sound drum plugin like Groove Agent, one of many many Kontakt libraries, or every other drum plugin – immediately taking on AURA’s 16 pads. Don’t just like the snare? Substitute it! Play the pad, press ‘Add Slot’ in AURA’s pad setup menu, browse your patch library on the TFT coloration show and cargo a brand new plugin. Any pad may be reassigned to a brand new plugin by making a plugin slot and loading a patch or plugin straight from AURA’s browser. AURA’s patch browser permits you to additionally filter for specific plugins, classes or tags to rapidly zoom in on the sounds you’re in search of. The very best is, {that a} patch robotically masses the plugin it belongs to – so discovering that “excellent” kick or snare drum on your observe throughout a number of plugins turns into a matter of seconds. Preserve including instrument plugins till you’ve got a unique one enjoying on every of the 16 pads, their key ranges also can overlap for sound layering. Combine your package utilizing Nektarine’s software program mixer with panning and quantity management per plugin – and by including FX plugins: 4 insert FX slots per plugin in addition to 4 further international ship FX slots present loads of processing choices. The FX plugins may be loaded and tweaked from AURA, utilizing the 2 devoted “FX” buttons for immediate entry to inserts and sends. Your package, together with the entire FX configurations and pad assignments is saved as a part of a DAW undertaking/track or in a Nektarine Multi-Patch for immediate recall. You may all the time view a loaded plugins’ consumer interface in Nektarine‘s devoted Rack View. The header bar shows all necessary parameters together with stage and pan for that slot. Every slot’s as much as 4 insert FX plugins may be discovered proper under. Moreover, all Aux ship grasp controls may be displayed on the backside of the window. The built-in Browser Pane on the best provides you entry to a specific plugin’s patch library, together with Nektarine’s highly effective filtering and tagging choices. Change to Nektarine’s Pad View to see and arrange all 16 pad slots without delay: Making a Multi-Patch is a matter of seconds on this view! Merely double-click a patch or drag a patch onto a pad slot, then transfer on to the following slot and repeat the steps. As soon as completed together with your assignments, change to Mixer View the place you’ll be able to combine ranges, pan and FX in a tradional console format. On AURA’s Mixer display screen you’ll be able to see these parameters for 8 pads on the identical time. Nektarine’s ‘Browser’ supplies a robust database for all of your presets. It’s designed to handle 1000’s of patches and kits with options like customizable tags and sorting instruments together with full management from AURA. Browser settings are unbiased for each instrument and impact plugin slot. They’re saved with a Nektarine Multi-Patch or perhaps a DAW undertaking/track, together with all different settings. Nektarine may be run in any DAW internet hosting AAX, AU, VST or VST3 plugins or as a standalone software in Home windows and Apple OSX. AURA is far more than a USB MIDI Pad Controller: Press ‘Plugin’-mode for immediate management of hosted instrument plugins – full with parameter suggestions on AURA’s coloration show. Based mostly on the final triggered pad, Nektarine auto-selects the related parameters for management from AURA’s 8 heavy-duty rotary pots. Your plugin has extra parameters? No worries: Nektar’s mapping expertise may even management plugins with 1000’s of parameters seamlessly. Merely choose one other mapping web page utilizing the show soft-keys or ‘Menu’ button and the pots are reassigned – with crystal-clear parameter suggestions on AURA’s show. What’s extra, you may get began immediately, as manufacturing unit maps for a lot of standard instrument plugins are already included with Nektarine. When programming drum sounds, fast entry to key parameters comparable to pitch, decay or stage is crucial. So most of the manufacturing unit maps are set as much as ship this to you – even supporting multi-sound plugins comparable to Kontakt libraries or Steinberg Groove Agent for instance. On many of those plugins, every pad controls a unique instrument (kick, snare, toms and many others.), typically additionally with totally different sound parameters and settings for every. Merely Hit the specified pad – and the controls are re-assigned for a real {hardware} drum machine fashion workflow! Making your individual maps is straightforward: Nektarine has a particular ‘Management’ View for graphic map enhancing together with drag-and-drop help. To the left of the window you see a listing of all out there plugin parameters, on the heart you see AURA’s 8 pots. To assign a parameter, merely drag it from the record onto a management – that’s all, no rocket science required! On the best you see the chosen map’s web page construction: Maps may be so simple as one web page with simply 8 parameters or as complicated as a full-featured synthesizer map with a number of pages like proven under. Create pages and subpages to simply cowl complicated plugins with a number of Oscillators-, Filters- and so forth. All of this simply controllable by way of switching pages from show buttons or the ‘Menu’ choose button. You may create maps on your FX plugins the identical method, and reserve it all in Nektarine. Make the most of AURA’s deep DAW integration: Aura after all works with any MIDI software program, however if you happen to use one of many DAWs supported by Nektar DAW Integration software program you’ll be able to choose tracks, navigate initiatives or management prolonged transport capabilities straight from the {hardware}. Nektar’s integration software program takes care of all required setup duties, so every part is pre-configured for immediate use. As soon as put in, the devoted ‘DAW’ button comes alive and assigns AURA’s floor to take management of many standard DAWs at one press. Seven transport buttons are in any other case absolutely MIDI assignable, together with MMC instructions, and can be utilized to arrange transport management for any software program not supported by Nektar DAW integration. Nektar DAW Integration software program for AURA presently helps: Ableton Dwell Suite, Bitwig, Cubase, Digital Performer, Garageband, Logic, Nuendo, Reaper, Purpose, Studio One and Sonar/Cakewalk. In ‘Inside’ mode, AURA works as a self-contained programmable generic MIDI Pad controller. It connects together with your MIDI soft- or {hardware} by way of USB or the MIDI output jack. Retailer your pad and management assignments for the 16 pads, 8 pots, 7 switches and a couple of foot change connections in one in all 16 presets for immediate recall. Pads can ship any MIDI notice. Their stress element and the pots are programmable with a number of message sorts comparable to MIDI CCs, Pitch Bend, Velocity, Program adjustments NRPN and extra. The pads stress element additionally presents channel and poly aftertouch, the 7 transport switches and foot change connections can management capabilities comparable to MIDI machine management, play, cease and repeat. PLAY & PERFORM – Play grooves on AURA’s 16 hyper-sensitive velocity- and aftertouch-sensitive pads. Juice up your performances with instruments like Pad Repeat and report all of it in your DAW. STEP SEQUENCER – Program beats straight on the {hardware} with AURA’s step sequencer, together with inventive realtime parameter tweaking. No pc required: The sequencer will also be used with exterior MIDI gear! CONTROL PLUGINS – Construct kits utilizing VST, VST3 or AU instrument- and FX-plugins. Management them from AURA with full suggestions on the show. Maps for a lot of standard plugins are included and the graphic map editor makes it simple to create your individual. ACCESS YOUR SOUNDS – Choose and cargo plugins or patches from AURA’s patch browser with Nektarine’s highly effective database conserving your sounds organized and making them immediately accessible.
mannequin yr: 2021
Highly effective beat creation and efficiency instrument
MIDI pad controller with16 hyper-sensitive RGB illuminated pads
On-board step sequencer
Versatile pad repeat engine
Unbelievable plugin management
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