Why don’t any of the keyboard controllers have pads?

Most controllers nowadays fit pads whether 8 pads (budget keyboards) or 16 pads (high end keyboards) on their controllers to fit the new younger demographic and NI has yet to do that so I was wondering why it doesn’t.
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Indeed, many nks instruments and users of their keyboards would benefit from it. It would be a good thing. Now will they do it or will they continue with the argument: if you want pads buy a maschine...
in any case there is room for more
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Indeed, many nks instruments and users of their keyboards would benefit from it. It would be a good thing. Now will they do it or will they continue with the argument: if you want pads buy a maschine...
in any case there is room for more
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Yeah I figured that getting a Maschine is an alternative but I was just wondering why not just bundle them up.
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I think that economically, keeping two separate products is better for them.
Apart from being able to trigger sounds, the presence of pads could bring additional functions like navigating through the different pages of instruments and other banks. When you have the parameters of a massive for example mapped on 16 pages it becomes complicated to navigate only with the right and left arrows.
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Usually because Pads are considered a gimmick / useless idea on keyboards.
Possibly for the younger kids but as you start to find, pads in a keyboard have far less sensitivity and expression than a decently built pad controller. This is because most pad based controllers have large metal backplanes and very thick pads so as to take a hammering and offer good velocity ranges down to very light taps.
Keyboards are limited in space for all this and adding pads adds to the cost which many would rather not pay. Sure in some cases they can be useful, but honestly something like a Korg nanoPad will fit the bill if needed and would probably work better.
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