And when I say built into Kontakt, I don't mean the GUI changing and having to be limited like Kontrol is in comparison. Having kontrol built into Kontakt would be good. Along comes a keyboard with a light system to show you where all your weird drum hits are, playable ranges, key switches, etc and then you realise you have to use Kontrol. Some of us supplement with wind controllers, guitar MIDI, drum pads, MPE devices, slider controllers, etc.īased on where you're coming from, I highly recommend the S88 MKII, particularly if you work with one of the DAWs it is well integrated with, like Cubase and Logic.Ĭouldn't say it better. I don't think that any piano-style MIDI controller is the ultimate tool for recording each and every one of the countless virtual instruments that exist.

You can really get it pretty close to the way you want. If you want to play piano, there are additional adjustments you can make in most piano virtual instruments (Keyscape, KeySuite, ArtVista, etc). If people critique the action, I would ask how much setting up they've done. This is typical for MIDI keyboards-the 'feel' is kind of an illusion that can be tricked out with a different velocity setting. When I first played my S88 I was a little disappointed with the way it played, but after I adjusted the velocity within Komplete Kontrol I was fine. For me it was easy, because I had an S49 and loved all the NKS features. As you know, of you want an 88 key keyboard with NKS light guides there are only two that are sold: S88 MkI and S88 MkII.

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