Novation Nocturn Controller
What we think:
Novation’s most affordable hardware controller to date, Nocturn is an intelligent plug-in controller that promises to unleash the full potential of all your favourite instruments and effects. With Automap, Nocturn provides automatic, instant and intelligent control of all automatable plug-ins within every major sequencer, including Pro Tools.
Spacious and tactile control layout.
Side-mounted USB socket and ultra-low profile allows it to be positioned conveniently on your workstation.
See at a glance how every parameter is assigned with a transparent control map across your computer screen.
Novation’s unique Speed Dial allows you to take control of whatever your mouse is focused on.
Eight touch-sensitive rotary encoders with bright, eleven-LED rings.
Illuminated buttons and a smooth, professional 45mm cross-fader, making it ideal for laptop DJ’ing in a dark club environment.
What is Automap?
All Novation controllers include Automap software. This lets you control
your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software from your controller by assigning
functions to knobs, faders and buttons. Featuring a revolutionary new heads-up transparent control
GUI, Automap places a transparent control map across your computer screen, to
be recalled or hidden at will. Little or no user setup is required and plug-in
control can be exactly the way you want it, no matter what music software you
use. Just boot up the plug-in and you’ll see at a glance how the
parameters are automatically assigned to each of Nocturn’s controls. An
instant click and control learn function is also available for quick
re-assigning of controls, or for creating your own controller map in seconds.
Multiple page options mean that you can assign a potentially infinite number of
parameters for each plug-in.
Automap also categorises all your control maps. A simple browsing facility lets you review all open plug-ins, then quickly switch to controlling one of them. Automap Universal 2.0 also supports standard MIDI protocol, providing the same transparent display for quick and simple assigning of MIDI parameters. This ensures Nocturn can also turn its hand to controlling a hardware MIDI device, any non-automatable plug-ins, or your sequencer mixer. Once a MIDI map is created, it can be saved and recalled via the same map browsing facility. A growing number of maps will be available to download from www.novationmusic.com
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