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www.nektartech.com Nektar Impact LX25 User Guide 7

Studio One Artist and Impact LX25 Working Together

Presonus Studio One Artist comes with it’s own documentation which cover all its functionality and powerful features. It’s a

good idea to read and reference the documentation regularly to get the most out of your Studio One Artist product.

But before you dive in to the Studio One Artist documentation, lets go through a few basics here first and in particular cover

how Studio One Artist and Impact LX 49 work together.

All Working Fine?

First make sure that everything is set up correctly.

 From the Studio One Artist Start-up window, click on “Create a new Song” on the right hand side

 You should now be looking at the main Studio One Artist arrange and browser window on your computer screen.

 Press a few keys on the Impact LX25 keyboard. As you press them, the orange arrow next to the MIDI icon in

the bottom left corner of the window should light up. If it doesn’t, you should go back and recheck your setup.

 Next press the [Play] button on the Impact LX25 transport. Studio One Artist should start to play. Press

[Stop] to stop playback

 Create a few audio tracks in Studio One Artist via the Track menu.

 Press the [Mixer] button and with the audio tracks created, move the pots on Impact LX25 starting with number 1 and

up. Each of the audio tracks volume indicators should change as you move their corresponding pots.

 Next press [Mixer] and hit any of the 8 pads while Shift is pressed. This should activate mute for each of the

corresponding tracks.

If every thing at this point is working correctly, you are ready to learn more about how Impact LX25 works with Studio One

Artist. If you are not getting the results described, please check your installation one more time as well as the Nektar support

tab on our website www.nektartech.com

Transport

The transport buttons give access to activate or deactivate the following transport functions: Cycle (loop), Rewind (in 1 bar

decrements), Forward (in 1 bar increments), Stop, Play, Record.

In addition the buttons double up with functionality that’s accessed by holding down the [Shift] button. The chart below tells

you what each button and button combination does and how they behave.

Key Combination Description

[Cycle] Switch the loop/cycle between the Left and Right locators on/off

[Rewind] Rewinds in steps of 1 bar. Press and hold for fast rewind

[Forward] Forward in steps of 1 bar. Press and hold for fast forward

[Stop] Stop playback. Press twice to goto zero

[Play] Activate play

[Record] Activate record. Press again to deactivate record but continue play

[Shift]+[Cycle] Goto Left locator

[Shift]+[Rewind] Set Left locator at current song position

[Shift]+[Forward] Set Right locator at current song position

[Shift]+[Stop] Undo last changes. To undo while in record, press [Record] first to deactivate, then

undo to remove your recording

[Shift]+[Play] Switch the Click/metronome on/off

[Shift]+[Record] (Mode) Quantize selected part or notes. To quantize while in record, press [Record] first to

deactivate, then press Mode to quantize your recording