Hi all, new here on vi-control.
Have a Maschine mk3, and about to have a KK s61 mk2. Otherwise I only have a Roland System-8. So not a lot of experience with midi controllers (had a M-Audio CTRL49, which I didn't find very nice except the keys action).
I'm taking an audio design master and uses Max 8, Live 10, Unity and FMOD. I want to record in Cubase or Logic, when I have enough money for that (on windows at the moment). Used Studio One 3, but didn't really get along with it in the end.
We do alot of stuff on the university grounds, and I want to have a midi controller with me for playing Kontakt instruments and controlling especially Max-patches.
I've narrowed down my search to these:
Novation Curcuit
Roli Block Seaboard
McMillen QuNexus/K-board
Arturia KeyStep
Do you have any experience with these controllers? What do you think about their ability to be experimental but ALSO functional, eg. for playing chords/melodies/beats in Maschine and Ableton - so on.
I have tried all but the Curcuit, and it is kinda of an outsider, because I don't know how good it will be for melody-lines. I really like the idea of lots of pads with colors and the nice knobs it has. It can also work as transport control - which would be nice admittedly. Also how the knobs can change cc-parameters would be awesome.
I really like the Seaboard for its wireless connectivity, small but nice dimensions/materials, and its weirdness which makes soloing a joy. But chords… can't really do that. And also for beating in rythms, i don't know.
One on my course has the QuNexus and it seems really cool. But can you be experimental with it? I read that the tilt function and all is very difficult to use in practice (compared to the Seaboard eg which I find very nice). I haven't tried the K-board.
The keystep is a real nice keyboard, with many keys too, and it has some knobs which is real nice too, and it has transport possibilities. But not that experimenting right? Its also rather big, and thats a really important part too - i use my 15" laptop, a mouse and I can't have much else on the small tables so, yeah maybe too big too.
Thats also maybe a bad thing about the circuit, can't really tell just how big it will be in a backpack. (i do have a rather large one, which actually JUST fits the Maschine Mk3).
I really want to hear some input on these especially for experimenting stuff - cause I'd rather have something to be able to do something that would be VERY hard on a laptop, than a controller who just makes stuff a bit easier/faster.
What do you do yourselves when your on the move away from the studio?
Have a Maschine mk3, and about to have a KK s61 mk2. Otherwise I only have a Roland System-8. So not a lot of experience with midi controllers (had a M-Audio CTRL49, which I didn't find very nice except the keys action).
I'm taking an audio design master and uses Max 8, Live 10, Unity and FMOD. I want to record in Cubase or Logic, when I have enough money for that (on windows at the moment). Used Studio One 3, but didn't really get along with it in the end.
We do alot of stuff on the university grounds, and I want to have a midi controller with me for playing Kontakt instruments and controlling especially Max-patches.
I've narrowed down my search to these:
Novation Curcuit
Roli Block Seaboard
McMillen QuNexus/K-board
Arturia KeyStep
Do you have any experience with these controllers? What do you think about their ability to be experimental but ALSO functional, eg. for playing chords/melodies/beats in Maschine and Ableton - so on.
I have tried all but the Curcuit, and it is kinda of an outsider, because I don't know how good it will be for melody-lines. I really like the idea of lots of pads with colors and the nice knobs it has. It can also work as transport control - which would be nice admittedly. Also how the knobs can change cc-parameters would be awesome.
I really like the Seaboard for its wireless connectivity, small but nice dimensions/materials, and its weirdness which makes soloing a joy. But chords… can't really do that. And also for beating in rythms, i don't know.
One on my course has the QuNexus and it seems really cool. But can you be experimental with it? I read that the tilt function and all is very difficult to use in practice (compared to the Seaboard eg which I find very nice). I haven't tried the K-board.
The keystep is a real nice keyboard, with many keys too, and it has some knobs which is real nice too, and it has transport possibilities. But not that experimenting right? Its also rather big, and thats a really important part too - i use my 15" laptop, a mouse and I can't have much else on the small tables so, yeah maybe too big too.
Thats also maybe a bad thing about the circuit, can't really tell just how big it will be in a backpack. (i do have a rather large one, which actually JUST fits the Maschine Mk3).
I really want to hear some input on these especially for experimenting stuff - cause I'd rather have something to be able to do something that would be VERY hard on a laptop, than a controller who just makes stuff a bit easier/faster.
What do you do yourselves when your on the move away from the studio?