download midi keyboards compatible with native instruments maschine mk3

Our handy price widgets also display the latest and best prices at our trusted retailers. We've listed the controllers in price order to make it easier for you to find the right one for your budget. While they include some MIDI control, their focus is more as hardware DAWs for complete song production. We have decided not to include any music production workstations such as NI's Maschine+, Roland's Verselab MV-1 and Akai MPC Live II. So don't think of a pad controller as just for tapping out beats or triggering notes, as many have been designed to be so integral with today's gear that they are almost an extension of it, instruments in their own right, enabling you to compose and record melodies, chords and basslines, or sequence entire songs together to trigger both your music software and other hardware – great news for players and non-players alike. So adding the Novation wouldn't just get you a good MIDI keyboard for playing, but also a new batch of sounds to use.Pad controllers are available in all sorts of shapes and sizes to suit just about every production and performance task, from small-form pad-based sequencers, equally as home controlling a Eurorack setup as they are virtual instruments, through NI's Maschine range of controllers with dedicated software, right up to Ableton's Push 2, a pad controller specifically for controlling the company's Live DAW. Honestly I'd focus on the Novation for the simple reason that while you can play both the Maschine and KK separately you'll still encounter a lot of overlap between the two: both use the same NKS library.

If you have Komplete installed you can probably test this right now: just fire up 'Komplete Kontrol' (it's also available as VST) and check what's available to you. Comparable to what you can do from behind the Maschine next to the Maschine library you can also play pretty much any NKS compatible instrument. You wouldn't be able to use the Maschine library but would get access to Komplete and any other NKS compatible instruments as well.

The 'Komplete Kontrol' ('KK') keyboards fully utilize the so called NKS standard. If I had a Native Instruments S-Series Keyboard, could I load sounds to that keyboard separate from whatever sounds are loaded on the Maschine MK3 both utilize the Maschine library?

Download midi keyboards compatible with native instruments maschine mk3