Their synths already have ‘capture mode’ as feature in their back panel. One thing is for sure, it will not have endless rotary dials as he feels that only the waveform dial needs to be endless. The only thing to consider is whether to have is a vector stick, instead of the X and Y control dials. As it is now, it is pretty well laid out. In the current design Rob says it will be 43cm (17inch) x 23cm (9inch) and the layout is based on what he believes is essential to have under your fingers when using synthesisers. The idea is to make a usb controller for their synth products (BLUE-II, Predator, SubBoomBass, Blade). Rob Papen has been discussing a concept design for an RP-Control. The Panorama offers deep integration with Bitwig Studio, Cubase, Logic Pro and Reason, but not Pro Tools, so is it even worth me considering it as a keyboard controller? As time has gone on, I’ve grown impatient and seeing that Tim now has some integration with Pro Tools I asked if I could check out the Panorama keyboard - mostly to see if the vision he started at M-Audio had been developed further with the Nektar Panorama keyboard controller. When I heard that Tim had joined Nektar and saw what the Panarama keyboard could do for Reason users I reached out to him and asked when it would have the same kind of functionality in Pro Tools, at that time Tim had no idea of when that would be, so I sat on my hands. Tim left M-Audio to join Nektar, the controller company as Product Manager and Designer. Tim is my kind of guy, he sees a problem and comes up with an answer, even if it’s not his responsibility or his job title. Tim wasn’t a software developer working for them, he had come up with Hypercontrol in his own time and then shared it with the M-Audio team. As he explained the idea to me and demonstrated it in action I was impressed by how Hypercontrol would be able to help automate lots of laborious task, when I heard the back story I was even more impressed. Whilst I was there I met Tim, he showed me an idea he had been working on, that idea was the M-Audio Axiom Pro with Hypercontrol. I had been invited to the Digidesign UK headquarters by a couple of the guys who had seen the first couple of weeks of the blog to see if they could help support me. I first met Tim Chandler when I started the blog over 5 years ago. ![]()
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