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Sessions can be recalled from the pads in Session view. This arrangement can then be stored in the keyboard as a Session, a term that will be familiar to Circuit users.

You can colour‑code each Part, and even decide which, if any, will forward MIDI from external sources. In Template mode, you can quickly assign templates to each Part, choose outputs for them (MIDI 1 or 2, USB, or either CV/gate pair) and set MIDI channels.

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The factory set on my unit contained a generic template plus templates for all Novation’s synths and a host of other, mostly contemporary, synths and drum machines.Ĭontrol templates are created and edited using the Components app or web page.It’s a painless process to configure your own project.

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Templates recall MIDI assignments for the buttons and faders, pads, mod wheel and two banks of rotaries.

Each Part is a MIDI control template selected from the pool of templates currently stored in the unit. This puts you in charge of eight Parts, which are displayed along the bottom of the screens and selected with the adjacent buttons. The primary stand‑alone mode is Sequencer. Once you’ve mastered this convention you’re good to go. Shift‑clicking a mode turns it on or off. Pressing any of the mode buttons gives you access to its displays and controls. The SL MkIII presents its primary features via five main modes: InControl (DAW control), Zones, Sequencer, Scales and Arp. I particularly like the thick rubber track that runs around the bottom in lieu of feet, making the keyboard very stable even when overhanging my keyboard shelf at one end and with cables and a laptop stand’s feet shoved underneath! The semi‑weighted keys have a reassuringly solid, smooth action with the sprung ‘synth‑style’ feel I (as a non‑player) like. The 16 pressure‑sensitive pads lie in two rows below the screens so they can be drafted in as Ableton launchers and sequence programmers. There’s a transport section, various mode and function buttons, and a bank of eight mixer‑style strips each with a slider and two buttons. The primary row of eight encoders and buttons are accompanied by full‑colour displays. Inset above the keys is a strip of LEDs, the first time I’ve seen this since the NI keyboards. The keyboard itself bears more than a passing resemblance to NI’s S‑series controllers, and not just because the previous generation’s greys and silvers are replaced with matte black. Unpacking the SL MkIII, I couldn’t help but note some contemporary influences, starting with an Elektron‑style braided USB cable.

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And the Automap plug‑in mapping software is gone. It can manage zones and layers, arpeggiation and template juggling in hardware.

The SL MkIII features a stand‑alone eight‑track polyphonic sequencer, based on the Circuit sequencer engine. While the high‑end competition are relying more on plug‑in hosts to orchestrate their controllers’ features, Novation have taken a step away toward self‑contained functionality. The marketing imagery is bang on trend: less DAW‑focused, and showing the keyboard at the heart of a hardware synth studio. The result is a unique blend of MIDI master keyboard, DAW controller, and stand‑alone sequencer. Now Novation have taken the features and workflows they’ve developed for Circuit and Launch, and reimagined what a control keyboard could be.

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The Launch and Circuit series are brilliantly innovative by comparison the company’s more traditional keyboard ranges, Impulse and SL, have begun to look dated. In recent years most new Novation MIDI controllers have been small and square. Could Novation’s new keyboard be the ultimate command centre for your synth studio?

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