Nektar IMPACT LX88+ MIDI Controller
The Impact LX88+ is a unique USB MIDI controller keyboard designed for keyboard players looking for extra reach. It’s jam-packed with intelligent, expressive performance control and hooks up automatically to your DAW! If you prefer to control MIDI hardware, use the build-in MIDI Out as well as the extensive MIDI programing options. Impact LX88+ does it all, and more. Impact LX88+ DAW integration currently supports Cubase, Digital Performer, FL Studio, Garage band, Logic, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason, Sonar and Studio One. Buttons and controls are labeled so you don’t have to remember how they are assigned. The 88 note velocity sensitive keyboard is a semi-weighted action with medium tension, full-size, piano-style keys . the Impact LX88+ offers 4 velocity curves that gradually increase in dynamics so there is a match for any playing style. If you don’t need velocity, 3 fixed velocity levels cater for a consistent output. Nine 30mm faders, 9 MIDI buttons and 8 encoders are at the center of Impact LX88+’s control panel. Each control is fully programmable to send any MIDI CC message for use with hardware or software MIDI products. For groove and beat creation, Impact LX88+’s 8 velocity sensitive pads make life easy. Calibrated to trigger at a light touch. The best part is the “Pad Learn“ feature, which allows you to just select a pad, play the note or drum sound you want on the keyboard and assignment is done. The 4 color LED illumination not only looks good but also indicate which pad map is currently loaded and can even tell you which type of MIDI message each pad sends. With Nektar DAW Integration, the pads are automatically mapped in for example Reason and Bigwig.. The two Clips and Scenes buttons are used in Bigwig to trigger…., Clips and Scenes. In Reason, a clever control of Reason’s location points create a similar experience with scenes triggering of any Reason song.
Product Features
- Premium midi controller with 88 note velocity sensitive semi-weighted action with medium tension, on-board pitch bend and modulation wheels for performances
- 8 Hyper-Sensitive backlit pads
- Mac, PC and iOS compatible
- Software instruments automatically mapped to controls
- Includes Bigwig 8-Track DAW
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Very good. Middling construction value (but what do you expect … Very good. Middling construction value (but what do you expect for the cheapest 88 key controller out there).Keys do feel great however. That’s what’s important. Integration with FL studio was seamless and easy.(More advanced custom integration is not easy, but that’s the fault of FL not the controller)I will say when I was playing the entertainer i notice a small knock/rattle in the keyboard when you play an octave. (the lower key will rattle a slight bit)…
raised key My second highest C key is something like a centimeter higher than the rest of the keys on the board. I was able to stuff a piece of folded paper into the crevice at the top of the key, in order to make it level with the others (which luckily didn’t upset the key’s responsiveness). That issue aside, I like the keyboard (speaking as an untrained aspirant pianist who wanted a decent entry level instrument). It’s got a nice “feel” to it; I like way the keys respond (I did change the…