In Novation Fascination
So I got my Novation SL61 mkII yesterday. It surpassed my expectations in every way. I’ll forgo the specs and just say, the feel of the keys rocks. They’re semi-weighted, solid, and have a bit of a bounce to them. The first thing I did was load up my Predator soft-synth and loaded a patch that utilizes aftertouch. I thought that the aftertouch mechanism would lend itself to a “squooshy” feel, but it’s quite firm.
The AutoMap software is a bit of a different story. It “AutoMapped” my Predator synth in a weird way, making parameters that otherwise would be knobs mapped to toggle buttons. I’ll need a few days to tweak all that out. In fact, I need quite a few days of nothing but me and my sounds – it feels like there is never enough time in the day to learn all this stuff…
