native instruments komplete kontrol s88 mk1

#NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KOMPLETE KONTROL S88 MK1 FULL#
#NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KOMPLETE KONTROL S88 MK1 PROFESSIONAL#

I love the Lightguide because I use a lot of Kontakt hosted libraries with a lot of weird key switches, but finally, I bet on build quality and mostly on Key action and finally I bought a Roland RD-2000.

#NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KOMPLETE KONTROL S88 MK1 FULL#

Need to use Komplete Kontrol Software to host all the instruments if I want to take the full functionality of the keyboard. (Absolutely personal and I am sure that with time I will be ok more or less with the action.)

#NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KOMPLETE KONTROL S88 MK1 PROFESSIONAL#

I am not a professional pianist but I hate this spongy feeling. When I tried the action is not very good. (Keys that fail with the time, cheap construction.) Too much people talking about the bad quality overall of the keyboard. I was really close to buying a Komplete S88 MKII Keyboard but finally I las week I decided another path. But despite this and despite any hassle using the KK shell, it is already big help to my workflow and one I don't want to give up.Īlthough I totally understand that it isn't for everybody. It takes me a few seconds to bring some or all of these instruments into one of my songs ready to go in KK. I have various Cubase templates with dozens of my favorite instruments loaded up as deactivated instances within Komplete Kontrol. The keyboard is just a vessel for the software and not the other way around. NKS has additional features, like pre-mapping all the patches to the controller knobs (although some developers do this a lot better than others) and providing audio samples of each patch, so you can hear them immediately, without loading them. But you have to load them into KK or you lose all that added functionality. There are also many non-NKS libraries that map all the knobs-like all the ujam libraries (aside from the guitars, which are NKS). When I loaded Karoryfer Samples' Sforzando library 'Hadziha' into KK. Remember that the light guides also work with many if not most instruments whether they are Kontakt or not.

This is not something that can just be 'put into Kontakt' The light guides have to be lit up by something and that something is Komplete Kontrol software. If you connect two NKS keyboards at the same time, it can only work with one of them. Depending on which keyboard is connected, it works somewhat differently. The Komplete Kontrol software does a handshake with each NKS equipped keyboard. I really want one but I'm just back to circling round all the other choices that don't blow my skirt up either. It also doesn't work with instruments that are hosted in VEPro so if you use VEPro, and you buy one of these, then it's suddenly a very expensive controller that's missing the main point of buying one. I was so bummed out about this when it got released and since using one for a while at the studio I work at, I still look at it every time thinking, 'You could be so much more. I just mean, I want the Lightguide to reflect what is show in the Kontakt keyboard.

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.

Native instruments komplete kontrol s88 mk1