Novation Impulse User Manual page 13

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Assignable controls:
8 x rotary encoders. These are '360°' controls with no end stops, and are used to control
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plug-in parameters. These controls have speed-dependent resolution, so turning the encoder
slowly gives finer resolution than turning it quickly.
9 x 45 mm faders (slider controls), used to control volumes in your DAW mixer.
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9 x press-buttons.
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8 x pressure-sensitive drum pads. These can be used to trigger sounds (i.e., drums) in your
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music software, and also to control Impulse's "Arp", "Roll" and "Clip Launch" functions
Mod (Modulation) wheel.
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Impulse 49 and 61 only. Impulse 25 has one assignable fader.
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Impulse 49 and 61 only. There are no assignable buttons on Impulse 25
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Non-assignable controls:
Multifunction LCD display. Shows information contextually – i.e., will give you the most useful
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data depending on which controls you're currently using.
+ / – buttons. These are used in conjunction with the various menus, to scroll through
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available options, etc. Precise function varies with menu. Pressing these buttons together
enables Help mode.
Template Edit buttons. A set of four buttons (Keyboard, Controls, Zones, and MIDI Chan),
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which select the different menus used when modifying templates. A fifth button, Setup, permits
global settings, and a sixth, Shift, enables secondary functions for some of the other buttons.
Octave > / Octave < buttons – shift the notes played from the keyboard 'up' or 'down' in
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octave steps. Pressing the two buttons together lets you transpose the keyboard in semitone
increments. The number of octaves over which the keyboard can be shifted varies with Impulse
model; the smaller models have a greater shift range.
MIDI/Mixer button (Impulse 25 only) – sets Impulse 25's single fader to be either a control
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for a DAW mixer level, or an additional assignable MIDI control.
Plug-in/MIDI buttons – these determine whether the eight rotary encoders vary specific plug-in
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parameters, mixer controls, or act as general purpose MIDI controllers. Pressing Plug-in or MIDI
while holding down Shift will step between pages in the Automap Mapping Edit window. Pressing
both simultaneously will map the encoders to the Automap mixer.
Mixer/MIDI buttons (Impulse 49 and 61 only) – these determine whether the nine faders
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act as volume controls for individual tracks within a DAW mixer, or as general purpose MIDI
controllers. Pressing Mixer or MIDI while holding down Shift will scroll the set of DAW mixer
faders being controlled through eight channels at a time.
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