Hi,
Which is the best controller keyboard for Cubase 14. NI S61 mk3 or Arturia KL 3.
Don’t need drum pads as have Arturia Beatstep.
Not too impressed with Arturia KL 3 as why bring out a lesser product than KL 2.
NI SL mk3 is now £607.00 .
Regards
Mike
I’ve S61mkII and the problem is, the sustain pedal MIDI channel is globally and can’t be assigned to zones. This maybe looks a little bit weird to you but in some situations I need to configure the pedal to a MIDI channel, think about live situations when using more than one zone on the keyboard. NI said, it isn’t possible and would not implemented in the future. As I wrote, I’m on S61MkII, maybe MkIII is better. Another issue, yes, for me it’s an issue, when I connect the keyboard to another machine, no presets which are programmend on machine 1 are available on machine 2, you have to copy the configuration file from machine 1 to machine 2 and vice versa if any configuration is changed on machine 2. A very strange concept! And on the other way, NI is able to make your device as a dump brick because when you install a new Komplete Kontrol driver and the driver won’t work with your device. Ask Machine MkI users.
The hardware is great but I’m done with NI.
The Arturia looks quite good but faders instead of knobs? That’s the benefit of endless knobs, they, mostly and S61MkII does, the fader in your DAW didn’t jump. If you use hardware faders you hopefully didn’t a jump in the DAW faders, depending how it’s implemented in the keyboard. So I’m not a fan of unmotorized faders.
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