Kontrol S Mk3 Series with Maschine Built In

Mark Oxley

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/147992#Comment_147992

I don't see it happening either sadly. I have my own thoughts on why. Recent changes in both NI's product releases and company structuring has convinced me it's not a direction I'm willing to invest in any further.

Super8boy

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/147633#Comment_147633

Matthew_NI back in October during the AMA questions & answers had definitely hinted at an upcoming keyboard in the Kontrol range that would be more than 25 and less than 49 keys, so my guess is that a mk3 37 or similar will be released this year (look at how popular and well received the mpc keys 37 form factor has been over the 49/61 on Akai side).

blitze

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/148124#Comment_148124

I off loaded my Nektar T61 just recently which was a good keybed and had good integration with Reaper but lacking on plugin support with Nektarine software on Windows. This has had me looking up getting my M32 talking with Reaper and discovering very good Reaper community support in this area. ReaKontrol works really well and provides as much Reaper integration if not more than the Nektar T6.

I will be following up with looking at Maschine integration and trailing of Maschine VSTi within Reaper combining the workflows. I think Maschine for looping and sample fun and Reaper for audio recording / Arranging.

That being said - Komplete Kontrol as a plugin / sound manager is not without issues with NKS instruments crashing under Komplete Kontrol VSTi when scaling the UI in Reaper. I also find the Komplete Kontrol plugin browsing experience to be pretty tedious with the M32. Can't say how it is on the S model of controllers. Arturia seems to have a much nicer plugin UI interface for that but I haven't had hands on with their controllers to see how the experience is from their keyboards.

Also to investigate - running Maschine VSTi under Linux LOL.

BIF

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/148150#Comment_148150

Arturia's latest controller is actually a full synth which I guess INCLUDES the Arturia plugins on-board. There was some recent news and some review videos on it. The drawback for me is that you can't run NKS on it, you can only run Arturia plugins.

And I think that round display on top of the big knob is really too small to be effective.

Mark Oxley

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/148259#Comment_148259

It's actually little more than a preset playing keyboard and not a full synth. It offers a few preprogrammed macros to make minimal changes to the presets but that's about it. I would describe it as a keyboard with analog lab built in. It's target market is for live stage use rather than in a studio as far as I can see.

JesterMgee

NI don't even have the user market to sustain integration of KK with their own Maschine software, I wouldn't hold any realistic expectation of any standalone keyboard workstation.

DunedinDragon

I have to say I've intermittently considered incorporating something like Machine into my workflow, but ultimately I think it's a very cool piece of equipment but I can't imagine how it would significantly add to my workflow in that my MK3 is used exclusively on projects that are song oriented with a planned structure from beginning to end that runs a specific length of time. In other words, traditional productions. And I think that's the target audience NI is considering as that's kind of their bread and butter with their keyboards.

MorrisEd

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/147225#Comment_147225

You do know that NI should be employing people that can answer that question, right? It’s Finance 101. Now I know those people were probably all culled with recent layoffs (nice job), but you are also owned by a big bad PE company. Surely, those masters of the financial engineering universe (eye roll) can model how big one of your primary markets is. Unreal. And before you tell me they already did it, let me tell you their models are wrong.

Matthew_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/151645#Comment_151645

It was a rhetorical question.

And before you tell me you already knew that…

Kubrak

What NI could do one day is sort of Lego devices. One could plug in desired parts into keyboard body.