User Guide www.nektartech.comwww.nektartech.com Nektar Impact iX49 & iX61 User Guide Index Page Bitwig Studio Setup & Configuration 3 Bitwig Studio and Impact iX Working Together Cubase/Nuendo Setup & Configuration 5 Cubase/Nuendo and Impact iX Working Together Digital Performer Setup & Configuration 7 Digital Performer and Impact iX Working Together GarageBand Setup & Configuration 9 GarageBand and Impact iX Working Together Logic Setup & Configuration 11 Logic and Impact iX Working Together Reaper Setup & Configuration 13 Reaper and Impact iX Working Together Reason Setup & Configuration 15 Reason and Impact iX Working Together Sonar Setup & Configuration 17 Sonar and Impact iX Working Together Transport Control without Nektar DAW Integration 19 USB Port Setup & Factory Restore 20 2 Nektar Impact iX49 & iX61 User Guide www.nektartech.com Bitwig Studio Setup and Configuration The Impact iX Bitwig Studio Integration has been verified to work with Windows Vista, 7 and 8 as well as OS X 10.6 or higher. Neither Windows XP or Linux compatibility has been tested. If you are running Impact iX on a Windows XP or Linux system, please contact Nektar support for manual installation instructions. Setup Here are the steps you need to go through to get Bitwig Studio up and running with your Impact iX: Make sure Bitwig Studio is already installed on your computer. If not, please install Bitwig Studio first and open Bitwig Studio at least once, before running the installer for Nektar DAW integration software. With Bitwig Studio installed, locate the “Impact_Bitwig_Support” file in the folder that you downloaded from “My Downloads” on www.nektartech.com after registering your product Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions. See note for OSX. Plug-in your Impact iX and make sure it’s switched on (if you didn’t do so already) Launch Bitwig Studio and go to Options/Preferences/Controllers Click “Detect available controllers”. Your Impact iX should now appear in the list. OSX Note: Click “Ok” and exit Device Setup. If you get a message that the installer “can’t be opened because it’s from an unindentified That’s it, setup is now complete. developer”, do the following: Go to System Preferences/Security & Sys- tems/General and switch “Allow apps down- loaded from” to “Anywhere”. www.nektartech.com Nektar Impact iX49 & iX61 User Guide 3 Bitwig Studio and Impact iX49 Working Together With installation complete, it’s time to take a look at how the Impact iX49 integrates with Bitwig Studio. Launch Bitwig Studio. Create a few audio tracks Move the fader all the way up and down. The Bitwig Studio mixer volume for the currently selected track is now controlled by the fader on your Impact iX49. To avoid parameter jumping we also implemented soft-takeover. Read the section at the bottom of this page for more information about how that works. Next, press the [Octave Down] + [Transpose Down] buttons at the same time. This assigns the 4 round buttons to control transport functions in Bitwig Studio. Now press the [Octave Down] button. It activates Play. [Octave Up] activates Record and press [play] again to stop. The two Transpose buttons are assigned to Rewind and Forward. Press the [Octave Down] + [Transpose Down] buttons at the same time to return to controlling Octave and transpose with the buttons. You can also assign the Transpose buttons to control track or patch change in your DAW. Here’s how you assign the two buttons to change the track in Bitwig Studio: Press the [Setup] button. The LED above the button will blink and the color is orange to indicate setup is active. Press the key D#2 (labeled “Track”) on your iX keyboard to assign the Track Select function. Press Enter (C5). This will accept the change and exit Setup. Pressing the Transpose up/down buttons will now allow you to step through tracks in your DAW. The process for assigning the buttons to change the patch in your virtual instrument is the same, only press E2 instead of D#2. 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 Soft Take-Over When changing tracks and adjusting Bitwig Studio’s mixer volume with a control, you would normally experience parameter jumping. This happens when a control’s physical position is not the same as the position of the parameter you are controlling. When you move the control, the parameter therefore jumps to the value the control is sending out. To avoid parameter jumping when using the fader, your Impact iX is equipped with Soft Take-Over. This means that if the fader is not in sync with current channel volume, moving the fader will not cause a change, until it’s position matches the value of the parameter. Try changing tracks in Bitwig Studio and move the iX49 fader on each track to get a feel for how this works. 4 Nektar Impact iX49 & iX61 User Guide www.nektartech.com Cubase/Nuendo Installation and Setup The Impact iX Cubase Integration is compatible with Cubase 6, 6.5 and 7, Elements, Artist, AI, LE as well as Nuendo 5 or later. Earlier version may be compatible but check the Nektar support website for additional information: www.nektartech.om/support These instructions assumes you have a compatible Cubase or Nuendo program installed running on either Windows (Vista, 7, 8 or higher) or Mac OS X 10.6 or higher. Throughout we talk about Cubase but the same instructions apply to Nuendo. Installation Locate the “Impact iX DAW Integration” folder on the included DVD Image 1 or download it from “My Downloads” on www.nektartech.com after registering your product Run the “Impact_Steinberg_Support” installer and follow the on-screen instructions Image 2 Plug-in your Impact iX and make sure it’s switched on (if you didn’t do so already) Launch Cubase and go to Devices/Device Setup/MIDI Port Setup Image 3 Un-tick the second Impact iX port in the “In ‘All MIDI’” column. The second port is named “MIDIIN2 (IMPACT iX)” (image 1) in Windows and “Impact iX Port 2” in OS X (image 2) Next check that Impact iX appears in the Device Setup list (image 3) Click “Ok” and exit Device Setup. That’s it, setup is now complete and you can move on to the fun part, learning how it all works. www.nektartech.com Nektar Impact iX49 & iX61 User Guide 5 Cubase/Nuendo and Impact iX49 Working Together With installation complete, it’s time to take a look at how the Impact iX49 integrates with Cubase and Nuendo. In the below, we refer only to Cubase but Impact iX49 works the same way with Nuendo. Launch Cubase. Create a few audio tracks Move the fader all the way up and down. The Cubase mixer volume for the currently selected track is now controlled by the fader on your Impact iX49. To avoid parameter jumping we also implemented soft-takeover. Read the section at the bottom of this page for more information about how that works. Next, press the [Octave Down] + [Transpose Down] buttons at the same time. This assigns the 4 round buttons to control transport functions in Cubase. Now press the [Octave Down] button. It activates Play. [Octave Up] activates Record and press [play] again to stop. The two Transpose buttons are assigned to Rewind and Forward. Press the [Octave Down] + [Transpose Down] buttons at the same time to return to controlling Octave and transpose with the buttons. You can also assign the Transpose buttons to control track or patch change in your DAW. Let’s assign the two buttons to change the track in Cubase: Press the [Setup] button. The LED above the button will blink and the color is orange to indicate setup is active. Press the key D#2 (labeled “Track”) on your iX keyboard to assign the Track Select function. Press Enter (C5). This will accept the change and exit Setup. Pressing the Transpose up/down buttons will now allow you to step through tracks in your DAW. The process for assigning the buttons to change the patch in your virtual instrument is the same, only press E2 instead of D#2. 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 Soft Take-Over When changing tracks and adjusting Cubase mixer volume with a control, you would normally experience parameter jumping. This happens when a control’s physical position is not the same as the position of the parameter you are controlling. When you move the control, the parameter therefore jumps to the value the control is sending out. To avoid parameter jumping when using the fader, your Impact iX is equipped with Soft Take-Over. This means that if the fader is not in sync with current channel volume, moving the fader will not cause a change, until it’s position matches the value of the parameter. Try changing tracks in Cubase and move the iX49 fader on each track to get a feel for how this works. Notice that the setup button’s LED is used to indicate whether you should move the fader up or down to pick up the value of the mixer channel volume. Orange means up and red means down. If the LED is green, it means the fader is in sync with the Cubase channel volume. 6 Nektar Impact iX49 & iX61 User Guide www.nektartech.com Digital Performer Setup and Configuration The Impact iX integration for MOTU's Digital Performer is compatible with Digital Performer 8.
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