EQ Magazine - November 2008 - (Page 68) GEAR HEAD NOVATION NOCTURN PRICE: $199.99 STRENGTHS: Compact. Easy to use thanks to Automap Universal 2.0 protocol. Cool-looking semi-transparent GUI. Handles hosts as well as plug-ins. Very cost-effective. LIMITATIONS: Doesn’t yet support Pro Tools on Windows (only on Mac), but support is imminent. The USB-compatible Nocturn controller provides hands-on control for plug-ins (and mixing control for hosts); it offers eight touch-sensitive rotary encoders, a 45mm crossfader, eight buttons, and eight “function” buttons (e.g., select page, learn mode, select mixer mode, etc.). But it also has a ninth rotary encoder that controls whatever currently has the focus, as determined by your mouse. And . . . it’s cute and small, so you can almost certainly find a place for it on your desktop. However, what separates Nocturn from the pack is the Automap Universal 2.0 software that ships with it. When you install the software (Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, Windows XP SP2 or 32/64-bit Vista), you’re presented with a list of plug-ins in your system (VST, AU, and TDM/RTAS) which you can then select to be “wrapped” so they operate with Nocturn. (I just selected everything—hey, why not?) A program considers these wrapped versions as separate plugins, so if your software scans plugins on start-up, you’ll see the Automapped versions being registered. Although Nocturn can’t wrap “keyed” plug-ins that work only with specific programs, as long as they accept MIDI control, you can treat Nocturn as a regular MIDI controller where you create your own mappings. Once the software is installed and the hardware plugged into the USB bus, the fun begins. As soon as you open up a wrapped version of a plug-in, the Automap GUI shows up with a graphic of the available parameters (if necessary, there will be more than one page). You can determine the window’s transparency, encouraging you to keep it “on top” because you can see what’s going on with your host or plug-ins underneath—and the transparency helps a lot if you choose to resize the window to a large size, which can be very helpful if you’re running the remote at a distance from the computer. (You (CONTINUED) 68 EQ NOVEMBER 2008 www.eqmag.com http://www.cadmics.com http://www.eqmag.com
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