I comprehend Hans Zimmer makes use of this controller keyboard in his studios. Though is is probably more elegantly constructed into his furniture.

The keyboard inside is a Fatar and I think it has three various resistance amounts in the low mid and high ranges. I used to have a Nord Piano 88 purely for what sort of keybaord responded to never ever touch but I utilize the piano sounds. I only wnated it as it felt right beneath the fingers. Fundamentally I discovered that the Doepfer LMK4+ had nearly the keybed that is same so took the plunge.

Really happy with it replacing my Nord Piano as a controller. The keybed is much better due to the split that is three-way the keyboard as opposed to two for the Nord Piano, from exactly what I comprehend. And yes it doesn’t have that crunch that is grindy pressing down the tips on cheaper controllers. For instance the M-Audio Keystation to my experience wasn’t good. The tips all had a resistance that is heavy felt clunky and hard rather than particularly piano-like. Needless to say the price-difference is a factor, but if using an 88 key controller keyboard day-in-day-out the LMK4+ is a superb workhorse.

The only one minor flaw could be the power. It is a plug that is european so a converter becomes necessary or a replacement power supply. Also the charged energy input in the back for the unit is non-standard, using an XLR type connector. But once arranged and working who cares.

The beggining for the sory wasn’t so funny.
The first Swissonic ControlKey 88 that came in my studio from Thomann ended up being problem.
No aftertouch with all the keybooard except pads.
No option to assign MIDI cc manually utilizing the master fader (The 9th one)
Thomann replace immediatly the problem unit with another.
Great ! Keys Aftertouch works now.
But I can find in any manner to program my own midi cc to the master fader (S09)
It works with pre-programmed DAW setups (Cubase, ProTools, Logic) but if wish to duplicate among those pre-programmed setups to a person bank or program manually a unique cc to this fader. It is not working. Bug ? (firmware of my product is v1.17)Pros:- Robust, solid ans stable structure. The keyboard shall maybe not move on your desktop.
– Good semi-weighted key touch impression. Key sensitivity is high but tweakable.
– pads are solid and velocity/polypressure sensitive and painful
– Those blue led lignts give a pretty look and are also helpful with rotative pots whre a a led explains come in the middle of the course (pan pot)
– you can alter parameters of each and every pads (note, channel?) choose a few velocity/polypressure modes. Hold and roll modes.
– DAW pre-programmed setups appear working up to now. The&laquo was tested by me personally; Cubase Scene » with Mackie Control device setup packed into Cubase computer software. The Swissonic can send and receive DAW midi messages on an additional virtual midi port and then reflect some DAW states (play, rec, ?)
– the USB power of the computer (iMac her) ended up being enough for the keyboard. No need of outside Power Adapter.

Cons:

– Toggle switches aren’t super easy to try out with. In the event that you click just a long time time (half an extra or more) about it, the value increment/decrement of 2 or even more?
– the modwheel rubs a bit that is little metal framework of the keyboard. The modification of pieces are a little bit approx.
– The rotattive faders are a little that is small to? turn. They’ve been unusable at that time that is same play (as cutoff parameter for instance). These are more DAW control oriented.
– the manual is quite incomplete. there are lots of things undocumented.
– it seems impossible to copy DAW presets into user banking institutions without loose some parameters.
– no way to plan master fader (S09)

I use this keyboard with Fruity Loops and many plug ins. At first glance it absolutely was heavy, a significant load of binding knobs/buttons, exploring and learning. My previous keyboard had only keys and nothing else, it is update that is groundbreaking me. Midi and energy cable just isn’t included but it is powered by usb port. I would not give this to your 10 year old child, unless she is super intelligent genius, however it is versatile tool that require some time to install it to your needs.

+ Bargain price.
+ Keys feel fine to acoustic piano player, I ended up being expecting a great deal even worse.
+ Pitch and modulation knob are excellent quality.

– Drumpads need some serious punching, light touch doesn’t register. My cheap akai lpd8 does better job than this.
– the rest of the knobs/buttons are cheap synthetic and they have actually ugly snap noise when pushed. E1-E8 knobs have specially experiencing that is awful. This system will be better without those knobs…
– Quality isn’t constant. My B key feels embarrassingly different than other people. Not much, but it is here.

If you plan getting this, do not worry, my review appears even worse than it’s. This may be your absolute best shot for spending plan house studio.