NOVATION NOCTURN CONTROLLER KEYBOARD

The Nocturn Keyboard is based on the control surface of the hugely popular Nocturn. With the addition of 25 and 49 note keyboards, Nocturn's spacious controller layout has been adapted to a full control solution for DAW users, extending Novation’s range of controller keyboards to new levels of affordability.

Instead of using an on-board LCD screen, Nocturn Keyboard displays control information on your computer monitor. The Automap software graphically displays Nocturn Keyboard’s entire control surface, enabling you to assign parameters by simply clicking on them. The controllers themselves also tell you what’s happening - LED rings around the eight encoders show their current settings, while LEDs behind the 25 buttons show if they are on or off.

Nocturn Keyboard has been designed as a musical instrument as well as a control surface. The high-quality Fatar 'Fast Touch' keyboard mechanism, with velocity-sensitivity and aftertouch, allows for expressive playing styles, suiting both stage and studio performance. There are separate pitch bend and modulation wheels, as well as eight velocity sensitive drum pads for sketching drum patterns and triggering samples.

Novation's Automap control software acts as a software interface for the control surface, visually showing you what software parameter is assigned to each control, exactly as it is laid out on the unit.

The 25-key version of Nocturn Keyboard will be available to purchase late in September 2009 and the 49 in October, from all good music recording stores worldwide.

  Novation