NEKTAR Impact LX25 [14/32] Controlling midi software

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Controlling MIDI Software

Impact LX25 has incredible flexibility when it comes to controlling a DAW or other MIDI software. There are typically 4

different ways to set up Impact LX25 many controls though it’s not uncommon to use a combination of different approaches.

1. Install the included Presonus Studio One Artist software and control it from Impact LX (page 6)

2. Install the Impact DAW integration files for use with an existing DAW (must be on our supported list)

3. Set up a DAW with controller learn

4. Programming Impact LX25 controls for your software

1. and 2. are relatively easy to get started with so you can jump to the sections that cover each of these now if you are keen

to get going. If you plan to use your DAWs learn function or Impacts presets at a later stage, we do recommend reading

through this chapter in order to understand how Impact LX25 is structured. Lets start with an overview of what is stored in

memory.

Mixer, Instrument and Presets

Impact LX has 5 user configurable presets though in reality, the total amount of useable presets is 7. That’s because pressing

the Mixer or Instrument button each recall a read-only preset.

A preset contains control settings for the fader, and 8 pots.

The Preset button recalls the currently selected user preset. Since any of the 5 user presets can quickly be selected using

either the Octave or Transpose buttons, this gives tremendous flexibility. Below is a list of what each of the 5 presets are

programmed to by default. Each can be programmed with your own MIDI settings which we will cover later.

Presets 1, 4 and 5 are set up to transmit on the global MIDI channel. When you change the global MIDI channel (as described

earlier, you can use the Octave and Transpose buttons to do this at any time) you therefore change the MIDI channel that

these presets transmit on. With 16 MIDI channels available it means you can create 16 unique setups and just change the

MIDI channel to switch between them.

A list of controller assignments for each of the 5 presets is available on pages 26-30.

Preset Description

1 GM Instrument preset

2 GM Mixer ch 1-8

3 GM Mixer ch 9-16

4 Learn friendly 1 (Fader buttons Toggle)

5 Learn friendly 2 (Fader buttons Trigger)