Glad that you made a great equal case for this not having endless encoders. I got kinda sick of the endless(pardon me) list of people saying this cripples this controller, while it absolutely does not.
Yes, endless encoders would make much more sense instead of pots. The new Arturia AstroLab gets this right (and it has ring lights around each encoder to show the current position - terrific!
Very good review- thank you. More review videos please! Would love to know whether the Keystage could be directly connected to an iPad Pro tablet that has a USB-C port…..
I think the problem with the knobs is that only Ableton has a decent implementation of parameter soft take-over. In addition, parameters that benefit from very high resolution can't have it with a pot that has a fixed 270° range. In any case, endless rotary encoders with LED rings work extremely well. I have used both regular pots and encoders with LED rings for DJing and I'd take encoders any day of the week.
The 49 key version can't hold a laptop. I have a 13inch m1 macbook air and even that tiny laptop is too big for the baby sized stand that comes on the 49 key version. Only works with a tablet.
For this price its really sad that the keybed feels kind of cheap. I could live easily without the software-bundle and the build in audio-interface which seems to be part of the too high price. The form-factor of the 61 key version is perfect - with metal-case and better keybed for 499€ I would take it. They missed a big chance imho...
Seems to me all the keyboards produced today have cheesy and cheap feeling key beds. Even top of the line multi thousand dollar synths feel like crap to play these days. Why does nobody make a midi controller that feels like a good ole Triton/DX7/M1/O1W etc. These all felt great - nothing even close today.
Glad that you made a great equal case for this not having endless encoders. I got kinda sick of the endless(pardon me) list of people saying this cripples this controller, while it absolutely does not.
It’s so odd to me! Who cares about endless encoders that much? I dont get it
Very helpful! Thx for the vid, great
Yes, endless encoders would make much more sense instead of pots. The new Arturia AstroLab gets this right (and it has ring lights around each encoder to show the current position - terrific!
Helpful video. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Very good review- thank you. More review videos please!
Would love to know whether the Keystage could be directly connected to an iPad Pro tablet that has a USB-C port…..
I think the problem with the knobs is that only Ableton has a decent implementation of parameter soft take-over. In addition, parameters that benefit from very high resolution can't have it with a pot that has a fixed 270° range. In any case, endless rotary encoders with LED rings work extremely well. I have used both regular pots and encoders with LED rings for DJing and I'd take encoders any day of the week.
Do you have an example of a high resolution issue?
Great vid! What vst where you using during the Arp?
The 49 key version can't hold a laptop. I have a 13inch m1 macbook air and even that tiny laptop is too big for the baby sized stand that comes on the 49 key version. Only works with a tablet.
Thanks for demostrating. Did You try to use with iPad with iOS? Is ti compatible? I guess utility just run on windows/mac, right?
No problems! We didn't try it but yes it's compatible with iOS, should work fine 😀
For this price its really sad that the keybed feels kind of cheap. I could live easily without the software-bundle and the build in audio-interface which seems to be part of the too high price. The form-factor of the 61 key version is perfect - with metal-case and better keybed for 499€ I would take it. They missed a big chance imho...
Seems to me all the keyboards produced today have cheesy and cheap feeling key beds. Even top of the line multi thousand dollar synths feel like crap to play these days. Why does nobody make a midi controller that feels like a good ole Triton/DX7/M1/O1W etc. These all felt great - nothing even close today.
Did he say the keybed feels cheap?