Native Instruments Kontrol S-Series Mk3
£649 to £1,129
Native Instruments have updated their Kontrol-S Series to v3, but is it really still the best way for Andy Jones to Kontrol his virtual studio?
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Native Instruments’ Kontrol keyboards were incredibly ground-breaking when they were released nine years ago. The idea has been to get control of your software ‘off-computer’ – to be able to select plugins and tweak parameters using keyboards rather than your mouse and cursor. It makes the experience more seamless, less computer-based and feel more like you’re using a keyboard stuffed with software. That software does need to be NKS-compatible, though, so that the keyboard maps to it and makes the control experience more ‘hardwarelike’, but the list of NKS partners now includes many of the biggest names in software.
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