User Manual

4 Using Panorama with Reaper www.nektartech.com
Modes and Display
The Four Mode Buttons
Each of the Mode navigation buttons will configure Panorama to control different aspects of Reaper. It’s like having four
control surfaces in one:
Mixer: Assigns all controls to the Reaper mixer
Instrument : Assigns controls to the VSTi plug-in either via an Instrument Track or a MIDI track connected to the VST
Instruments rack
Transport : Controls functions in the Reaper transport bar including current song position and locator points
Internal: Uses Panorama’s internal MIDI controller functions so you can jump out of our dedicated Reaper protocol
and use Panorama as a traditional MIDI controller
Wherever you are in Panorama’s menu structure, pressing one of the Mode buttons will jump to that mode. The last menu
you accessed in each mode is remembered, so pressing the Mode button once from any other mode will take you back to the
remembered menu; pressing it twice will take you to that mode's home page.
What the Display Tells You
The display Info-Bar is the top Red/Gray/Red area and provides the following status information for each of the three Reaper
mode home pages:
Deeper in the menu structure, the Info-Bar changes to display the following information:
Mixer mode:
Instrument mode:
Display Buttons
The five display buttons are used to navigate menus or activate functions. On most pages there will be labels above one or
more of these buttons in the display.
The first display image you will see after launching Reaper is the Mixer Home Page. The EQ label is red to indicate that the 8
encoders above the transport buttons are currently controlling EQ (though by default, an EQ may not be present in Reaper).
Pressing the display button underneath will open the Panorama EQ control menu which shows what each control is assigned
to and parameter values. Pressing [Inserts], [FX Sends] or [Channel] will change the assignments of the 8 encoders as well
as show you what each of the controls are now assigned to. We will go through all of this in more detail on the following
pages.
If a button is used to control a parameter you will see a line above that’s either white or red to indicate
the current status of the button. The image on the right shows you an example where a parameters
status is “On”.
To exit any page, press a Mode button and navigate to whatever page you would like to edit next.
TRACK NAME MIXER CH NUMBER TRACK TYPE
TRACK NAME MIXER CH NUMBER CURRENT MENU
TRACK NAME PLUGIN NAME CURRENT MENU