NEKTAR Impact LX25 [11/32] Studio one impact drum instrument

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Studio One Impact Drum Instrument

The Studio One Impact (no relation, really) Drum instrument can be played from the Impact LX25 keyboard or 8 pads.

Operating the drum instrument works the same way as any other instrument and using the Pad maps 1+2 you are able to

play drum sounds straight away. However you will notice that that the first pad on Studio One Impact is assigned to the MIDI

note B0. Pad map 1 starts at C1 so neither Pad map 1 or 2 will by default allow you to play this pad.

In addition, you may prefer to create a setup where the 8 pads play a specific selection of any of Studio One Impacts 16 pad

sounds. Thankfully there is a learn function for that.

“Learning” Studio One Impact Sounds to the Pads

It’s easy to change a pad note assignments using the Pad Learn function. It works as follows:

1. Press the function button labeled [Pad Learn]. The display will now blink, showing P1 (pad 1) as the default selected pad.

2. Hit the pad you want to assign a new note value to. The display blinks and updates to show the number of the pad you

selected.

3. Press the key on the keyboard that plays the Studio One Impact sound you want to assign to the pad. You can keep

playing notes on the keyboard until you have found the note you want.

4. When you are done, press [Pad Learn] to exit and start playing your pads with the new assignment.

You can keep repeating steps 2. and 3. until you have created a complete Pad Map. The settings are stored over power

cycling so you will not lose them as you power down your system. However it’s a good idea to save setups that you may want

to have access to regularly in the future to one of the 4 pad map locations in Impact LX25. To learn how to do that, go to the

“Setup Menu” section in this manual.

Mixing Studio One Impact Drum Sounds

Studio One Impact has a lot of controls but perhaps most important is the ability to create a good mix of the 16 drum sounds.

To help make that process easier, the default parameters assigned to Impact LX25’s controls are volume. To mix the 16

sounds press [Inst.] and use pots 1-8 to control volume for pads 1-8 and release [Inst.] and use pots 1-8 to control volume

for pads 9-16.