Novation has added two keyboard versions of Nocturn to their list of MIDI controllers. Aside from the keyboard (a Fatar, 25 or 49 keys) Novation has also added eight drum pads and transport controls to the already available encoders, speed dial and other buttons.
I wouldn’t expect it to perform well with Pro Tools. No product from Novation that I’ve tried has behaved as advertised with Pro Tools.
For more info about the new Nocturn keyboards, head over to Novation.
Novation will supposedly launch another product as well on October 1st… And I happen to now another company that also announce something new that particular day.
I hear you re. Pro Tools. We just opened a new facility with three large PT HD rooms, and three smaller rooms – two with LE, one with HD. The main room is a D-Command system. Each room has an SL MkII. I installed Automap in the D-Command room, and it played merry hell with everything. The Plugin GUIs were messed up, the Icon no longer put dynamics or EQ plugins in the relevant sections on the board, and Automap barely worked anyway. Such a shame, as the keyboard itself is decent.
is the other company softube? Is the new product vintage amp room 2 based on a brand new audio engine that is so real it will put all amp companies out of business?
Tony,
Yep. I’m sitting with an SL MkII here as well and it’s not doing at all what it’s supposed to.
dominic,
Between you and me, there won’t be another Vintage Amp Room. It works like it should. Now other Amp Rooms, that’s a whole other thing
haha. k well just between us – good to know
Cant wait to see!
btw I have a remote SL. before automap 3 that thing was a joke. now its more useful. Still feels a bit to cheap though. Without motorized faders though the recall is not as good as it could be. I dont use it with protools. only logic.
I hear there’s a Logic 9 update for it so it probably works a lot better than with Pro Tools. I can’t even get the panning working here.
wow! great to read everyone feels the same about novation + pro tools. really great. pro tools is a bitch to make work with other stuff though – but novation calmly claim otherwise. i’ve never had any decent operational use out of my ZERO SL.
I don´t know what you guys have. Automap and my SL Zero always worked well for me at my PT-MP 8.0.1 on OSX 10.5.8.
Ok Panning still isn´t right on Stereo tracks, only Mono works so far. And you never should check the ‘Add Automap UI’ in the Plag-In Manager.
But and switching Plug-ins and Transport/Fader control works like a breeze.
And my Macbook isn´t even ‘optimized’ beyond anything usual.
What I really often came across is, that people don´t understand the device. It´s too complicated to give it ‘just a test drive’.
It took me quite some afford to get into the Remote SL. But what I get in return is much more in a nice workflow.
But what I learned is that a lot of Plug-In makers really suck with parameter-naming and -range definition.
Standarts? Consistency? Keep on dreaming.
greetz.
PS: and yes therefore you MUST optimize every Plug-in you use in Automap, if you want to get anywhere.
dyscode,
Glad there’s some success stories at least! For me regular panning won’t even work on mono tracks. The faders, mute, solo and the transport works though.
I guess the problem also lies with the all-in-one solution Novation trys to promote, which is bound to have some sacrifices over specialized consoles like Command8 etc. AutoMapHUI on PT is quite rudimentary at best, I frankly admit. No Send or Bus remote either.
But these are no dealbreaker for me. For others this might very well be one.
But then again: name one product that ‘works as advertized’? – other than drinking cup and a hammer.
>> “name one product that ‘works as advertized’?”
It sure as hell wouldn’t be a software product or anything that relies on software, that’s for sure. We’re living in a beta world!
Used automap since v2 w. PT 7.4
Now using Automap 3 and PT 8.1 for the Nocturn.
Never had a problem.