Nektar Panorama T4 Keyboard Controller

Nektar Panorama T4: Smart Keyboard Controller for Deep DAW and Plug-in Control

The Nektar Panorama T4 is a powerful and intelligent keyboard controller designed to provide an easier and significantly faster way to manage your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), allowing for more efficient mixing and music production. It offers hands-on control over essential DAW functions, including transport controls, channel faders, panning, and track navigation. The T4 boasts extensive compatibility, working flawlessly with major DAWs such as Bitwig, Cubase, GarageBand, Logic, Nuendo, Reason, Reaper, and Studio One, while also supporting any DAW that utilizes Mackie Universal Control (MCU). The physical controls are intuitive: eight faders manage your DAW’s mixer in banks of eight channels, with the ninth fader dedicated to master volume control. Additionally, Nektar enhances the production experience by allowing encoders to be switched to control sends or specialized smart/quick controls in supported DAWs, alongside dedicated shortcuts for mixer window management.

Key Features

• Easy and Efficient DAW Control: Control transport, channel faders (8+1 layout), panning, and track navigation across all major DAWs, including those supporting Mackie Universal Control.
• Plug-in Control via Nektarine: Seamlessly load and control any VST/VST3/AU plug-in within your DAW using the Nektarine host environment, which provides flexible pre-mapped controls and allows for easy editing and custom mapping of unmapped plug-ins.
• Expressive Playability: Features a velocity-sensitive keybed with aftertouch for dynamic performance, and velocity-sensitive pads that support easy note assignment (Pad Learn) and pre-set velocity levels.
• Key and Pad Repeat Function: A useful feature that allows notes to be held and repeated at a set, adjustable rate, with independent settings for keys and pads, along with real-time tempo and swing control.
• Fully Programmable Controls: Includes nine faders, eight assignable LED buttons, and eight encoders, all fully programmable to send MIDI CC messages for use with both hardware and software MIDI products.
• Bitwig Studio 8-Track Included: Comes bundled with Bitwig Studio 8-Track, a professional DAW with over 82 premium instruments, effects, and modulators, offering an immediate start to production.

Summary: The Panorama T4—Your Quicker Path to Creative Production

The Nektar Panorama T4 is a high-value keyboard controller that significantly streamlines your workflow from mixing to sound design. The combination of comprehensive DAW integration, the flexibility of the Nektarine plug-in control system, and expressive performance features like aftertouch and the Key/Pad Repeat function, makes music creation faster and more enjoyable. Whether you are finger-drumming complex beats or layering chords with the simple chord feature, the T4 keeps your hands on the hardware and your focus on the music. Its professional control set and included Bitwig Studio 8-Track software make it an ideal choice for producers at any level. Invest in the Panorama T4 today to experience a new level of efficient and inspiring music production.