User Manual

www.nektartech.com Using Panorama with Reaper 11
Reaper Instrument Mode
Pressing the [Instrument] button will select Instrument mode. Here you control Reaper’s instrument plug-ins, giving deep
access, right from Panorama. If you want to bring the plug-in GUI in to view in Reaper, press [View].
Instrument Home Page
The first window you see on the Panorama display is the Instrument home page. The page is designed to provide the visual
feedback and tactile experience of a hardware workstation.
If a track without an instrument inserted is selected, there are no parameters to control and the large character area will read
“No Instrument”.
Start by selecting the ReaSamplomatic track created earlier or insert it on a selected track now. The large character area now
shows “ReaSamplomati”.
Changing Patches
You can step through instrument patches within the current Reaper directory from Panorama, by pressing [Patch>] to go to
the next patch or [<Patch] to go to the previous patch. As you change patch, the parameter values are updated in the
Instrument home page. If you don’t have any presets create for SamploMatic, try creating two or more to see this working.
Some legacy plug-ins will only respond to patch changes if you “save as” and store them for access via the Reaper browser.
Others, such as NI’s Massive handle this slightly differently. In Massive go to the “Browser” tab and make sure PC Programs
is on. Then drag sounds you want from the left-hand browser list and place them in the right-hand program list.
Controlling Instruments
Now lets take a look at how Panorama is structured to control Steinberg’s Prologue, a plugin that comes mapped for
Panorama. The grid below the patch name, shows the parameters and values assigned to the 2x4 encoder group. In
addition, the first 4 display buttons are assigned to parameter buttons and the 5th display button gives access to deeper
device menus.
The home page gives access to a combination of parameters across all device menus,
with immediate control of the parameters, that typically have the biggest impact on the
instruments sound. For most devices this puts Filter Cutoff and Resonance on encoders
1 and 2 respectively.
Many instruments have a four stage ADSR envelope and that is also the case with
Prologue. The faders are therefore used accordingly:
Moving the faders now control these parameters in Prologue and the top current parameter line shows you which parameter
you are controlling and it’s value. Note that to avoid parameter jumping, a fader controls its assigned parameter only when
its position matches the parameter value.
Press [Toggle/View] to see what the faders and the associated encoders are assigned to
control and their current status.
Press [Toggle/Mute] to see what the LED buttons are assigned to control.
Fader 1 Amp Attack Fader 5 Filter Attack
Fader 2 Amp Decay Fader 6 Filter Decay
Fader 3 Amp Sustain Fader 7 Filter Sustain
Fader 4 Amp Release Fader 8 Filter Release
Fader 9 Instrument Volume