Novation FLkey 49 - Pad Mode: Instrument

Pad Mode: Instrument
You can control Channel Rack plugins from your FLkey in instrument mode. To enter instrument mode,
hold shift and press the pad above ‘Instrument’ on the hardware. You can input MIDI note data via
pads, adapting special instrument layouts:
• FPC pads
• Slicex
• Fruity Slicer
• A Default Instrument layout
By default, Instrument Pad mode displays a chromatic keyboard across the pads (shown below). When
you have Scale mode enabled in Instrument mode, the MIDI data sent from the pads maps to the eight
notes in the scale you select, across two octaves.
The Preset ▲ or Preset ▼, buttons allow you to scroll through the instrument’s presets.
FPC
In Instrument mode, when you add the FPC plugin to a Channel Rack track, you can control the FPC
drum pads from FLkey. When you select a channel with the FPC plugin:
• The leftmost 4 × 2 pads control the bottom half of the FPC pads.
• The rightmost 4 × 2 pads control the top half of the FPC pads.
FPC is special in this: As its pads have distinct colours, the pads from the FLkey respect those colours
instead of the channel colour.
Slicex
In Instrument mode, when you add the Slicex plugin to the Channel Rack, you can play back slices
using the FLkey’s pads.
You can press the Page ◀ left or Page ▶ right to bank to the next 16 slices and trigger them with the
FLkey’s pads.
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