4 Nektar Aura Owner‘s Manual www.nektartech.com
A big thank you for buying Aura - the Nektarine Beat Composer. Aura is a great pad instrument developed with beat creation in mind. It fea-
tures a drum machine style step sequencer which allows you to program a pattern for every pad and trigger them at any time, in any com-
bination. Aura can be used in this way as part of a stand-alone MIDI system. Combined with the included Nektarine VST/VST3/AU and AAX
plugin, the Aura system in addition becomes a powerful plugin control system where you can combine sounds from your favorite plugins
with send and insert effects. With Aura hooked up to your DAW, Nektar DAW integration helps capture pad performances or Aura sequencer
for a complete beat composing experience. We designed Aura with the aim to make beat creation simpler, more transparent and most of all
fun. If Aura inspires you to create new and exciting grooves, we’ve succeeded in what we set out to achieve. Enjoy!.
Box Content
Your Aura box contains the following items:
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The Aura pad controller
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Printed Owner’s Manual
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A standard USB cable
Note:
Aura is fully powered via USB so any additional power supply is optional and not included.
If any of the items above are missing, please let us know via email:
Aura Main Features
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16 velocity and pressure sensitive RGB illuminated pads
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TFT color display
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8 rotary 360 pots
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16 RGB LED illuminated buttons
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27 dual color LED illuminated buttons
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4 display buttons
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USB Type B socket. USB powered and class compliant (no driver needed).
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1/4” TRS Footswitch jack for connection of up to 2 foot switch pedals with an optional Y-cable. (Y-cable not included).
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MIDI output, can be used as a USB MIDI interface, for direct MIDI connection or both at the same time.
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DC 9V / 600mA, center positive power supply socket (PSU not included).
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Power on/off switch.
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16 Presets store pad configurations and MIDI assignments for pots and switches.
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16 Pattern drum machine style Step Sequencer with 4 Parts each with 16 Steps per Part.
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16 Collections store Sequencer setups of 16 Patterns each.
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Sequencer parameters programmable down to Step level .
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Pad Repeat feature.
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MIDI Clock sync.
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Nektarine Integration*.
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Nektar DAW Integration*.
* Nektarine and Nektar DAW Integration is included with Aura as a download following product registration. See page 5.
Introduction
