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Nektar AURA Beat Composer USB/MIDI Pad Controller and Sequencer
Product no: 9000-0059-8817
Bax Music Warranty:
This product comes with a 3-year warranty.
General
The Nektar Aura Beat Composer controller comes equipped with a set of 16 multi-coloured LED pads that offer deep control over drum plug-ins as well as instruments and effects. Dynamic rolls can be created using adjustable parameters like gate, accent interval and swing and, when you flip this desktop-friendly box into sequencer mode, you're given access to a tight and genuinely interesting set sequencer.
The Nektar Aura Beat Composer: Deep DAW and Plug-In Control
The heart of the Beat Composer lies in the software, Nektarine 2.0 that functions much like a AAX / VST / VST3 plug-in in your DAW. In this way, it offers countless options for manipulating VST-instruments, effects, loops and other sequence samples with your bare hands. The software provides 16 slots to add plug-in instruments with their own ideal configuration. You can then add four effect plug-ins to each instrument with the buttons selected to control them. This pulls your instruments out of the computer and places them in a fully playable composition tool or stage instrument.
A Highly Creative 16-Step Sequencer
In sequencer mode, the Beat Composer transforms into an incredibly creative 6-step sequencer. The solo and mute buttons below the eight rotary knobs become triggers for four parts with 16 steps so that a 'pattern set' can be triggered. Since each part and set can have different lengths, this box is able to spit polyrhythms as easily as standards and accents, gate and swing can also be set per step. Outside of your DAW, the Nektarine 2.0 software can also act as a stand alone application for OSX and Windows and, since the Beat Composer itself has a MIDI out port, hardware can be controlled without the need for your computer. With the addition of its smart sequencer, the humble Aura Beat Composer does precisely what other controllers can't by literally taking the creativity out of the box and placing it in your hands.
