Nektar Panorama P4 - Dedicated Reason controller

[Why-Fi]

so i got mine yesterday. it took me about 30 minutes to be off and running. theres probably like 2 things i still dont know how to do, and there are a few parameters to customize the pads that i dont really understand yet

but let me tell you. this joint is crazy if youre a reason user and you come from a hardware background. i was working on mixing a song and my laptop screen fell asleep. i didnt even notice. i hadnt looked up from the keyboard the whole time...everything is there on the screen...highly reccomend this for any reason user in the market for a keyboard.

my favorite feature is that you can move around any menu in the keyboard and the motorized fader will always be in control of your active track. so i can be in the transport moving around my loop points and mixing at the same damn time

tl;dr version...pics

 

[Real N Quotes]

so i got mine yesterday. it took me about 30 minutes to be off and running. theres probably like 2 things i still dont know how to do, and there are a few parameters to customize the pads that i dont really understand yet

but let me tell you. this joint is crazy if youre a reason user and you come from a hardware background. i was working on mixing a song and my laptop screen fell asleep. i didnt even notice. i hadnt looked up from the keyboard the whole time...everything is there on the screen...highly reccomend this for any reason user in the market for a keyboard.

my favorite feature is that you can move around any menu in the keyboard and the motorized fader will always be in control of your active track. so i can be in the transport moving around my loop points and mixing at the same damn time

tl;dr version...pics

I was thinking about copping one...but only 49 keys at 49 keys and 12 pads for a " reason " controller when its main racks are the combinator and kong

 

[Why-Fi]

about the pads, you can shift to the last 4 pads in the UI if need be

the rumor goes theyre dropping a 61 key early next year

there SO MUCH going on with this controller i think those issues are minute

i just spent a the last hour programming keystrokes into this thing. like cmd+s for saving or cmd _z for undo. right in the keyboard. shyt is crazy

 

[Real N Quotes]

about the pads, you can shift to the last 4 pads in the UI if need be

the rumor goes theyre dropping a 61 key early next year

there SO MUCH going on with this controller i think those issues are minute

i just spent a the last hour programming keystrokes into this thing. like cmd+s for saving or cmd _z for undo. right in the keyboard. shyt is crazy

I will check and see if they have one for display at Guitar Center this week. I'm actually in the immmediate market for a brand new controller. I see you got the MPK 61 which is what I was initially going to buy. Why did you cop the Panorama P4 when you have a MPK 61?

 

[Why-Fi]

the mpk61 - the control surface portion isnt sufficient enough for me to do any serious mixing...each fader has one pot and one button, whereas the mixers in daws have multiple pots and things that need to be controlled. and i can map barely anything to it except volume, then right back to the mouse i go. also the keys are stiff as fukk

if you dont have a need to mix or play any classical piano, the mpk is dope. its easy to set up. love the pads...the arpeggiator and note repeat gave me some sick sounding pieces over the months...

if youre serious about mixing and dont want the nektar id look into the sl mkII. you can map controls to that joint until jesus comes back and never run out of space to map shyt. plus they just updated automap to work with the SSL in reason (finally)

in my experience, the panorama is #1 though. comprehensive and intuitive as hell. and the keys are like butter

 

[Real N Quotes]

the mpk61 - the control surface portion isnt sufficient enough for me to do any serious mixing...each fader has one pot and one button, whereas the mixers in daws have multiple pots and things that need to be controlled. and i can map barely anything to it except volume, then right back to the mouse i go. also the keys are stiff as fukk

if you dont have a need to mix or play any classical piano, the mpk is dope. its easy to set up. love the pads...the arpeggiator and note repeat gave me some sick sounding pieces over the months...

if youre serious about mixing and dont want the nektar id look into the sl mkII. you can map controls to that joint until jesus comes back and never run out of space to map shyt. plus they just updated automap to work with the SSL in reason (finally)

in my experience, the panorama is #1 though. comprehensive and intuitive as hell. and the keys are like butter

I'm going to check out all three. I'm a pianist so I pretty much need at leat 61keys to get my Stevie W on. I love Reason so maybe I will just cop me 2 controllers as well. Thanks for the info .

 

[Da Jungles]

My controller died on me a few months ago so I need a new one.

This definitely has me interested

 

[Why-Fi]

there is nothing like it. there is an employee from nektar lurking the propellerhead forum, just dropping jewels on how to do certain shyt. this kb is crazy man

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiLfXtUorGg"]Nektar Panorama P4 Controller - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Real N Quotes]

there is nothing like it. there is an employee from nektar lurking the propellerhead forum, just dropping jewels on how to do certain shyt. this kb is crazy man

Nektar Panorama P4 Controller - YouTube

nice

 

[NErd]

gotta cop