2 Nektar Impact LX88+ User Guide www.nektartech.com
Content
Introduction 4
Box Content 4
Impact LX+ Features 4
Minimum System Requirements 4
Getting Started 5
Connection and Power 5
Nektar DAW Integration 5
Using Impact LX88+ as a Generic USB MIDI Controller 5
Keyboard, Octave and Transpose 6
Changing Transpose, Octave, Program, MIDI Channel and Preset with Transpose Buttons 6
Layer & Split 7
Layer 7
Split 7
Setting Octave and MIDI Channel with Transpose Buttons 7
Sending MIDI Program Messages 7
Wheels and Foot Switch 8
Pitch bend and Modulation Wheels 8
Foot Switch 8
Controlling MIDI Software 9
Mixer, Instrument and Presets 9
Global Controls 10
Function Buttons 11
Shift/Mute 11
Snapshot 11
Null 11
Pad Learn 11
Setup 11
Pads 12
Pad Maps 12
Pad Learn 12
Programming MIDI Messages to Pads 12
Pad Velocity Curves 12
Clips and Scenes buttons 12
What the Pads’ LED Colors Tell You 13
Pads Maps Default Settings 14
Setup Menu 15
Assigning Controls to MIDI messages 16
Control Assign (C1) 16
MIDI Channel Assign (D1) 16
Assignment Types (E1) 17
Data 1 and Data 2 Values (C#1 & D#1) 17
Fader Buttons and Pads LED behavior 18
Drawbar On/Off (F1) 19
Save Presets and Pad Maps (F#1) 19
Load a Preset (G1) 19
Global Functions and Options 20
Global MIDI Channel (C2) 20
Setting the Layer & Split MIDI Channels 20
Keyboard Velocity Curves (C#2) 20
Pads Velocity Curves (D2) 21
Panic (D#2) 21
Program (E2) 21
Sending Program Messages via Layer & Split 21
Bank LSB (F2) 22
Bank MSB (F#2) 22
Sending Bank LSB/MSB Messages via Layer & Split 22
Memory Dump (G2) 22
Low Power Mode 23
USB Port Setup (A2) 23
MIDI Out from USB 23