Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsPerfect in Size And gets the job done. I highly rate this five stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2020
I love this keyboard, quality functionality and the amount of versatility that can be done with this micro keyboard makes it one of the absolute best. Let me go over a couple of pros and cons. But the pros outweigh the cons.
Pros:
The value in the software alone is worth thousands of dollars you’re not gonna get any of this with any other midi keyboard.
Can be used with all your Daws.. Tested Ableton live, FL studio 20 and much much more.
Extremely solid build definitely will last years to come
Fr..3 two Keys it’s the Sweet Spot.
Functionality with complete control works perfectly and you spend more time playing and having fun then screwing around with software.
Midi controls work flawlessly
Cons:
OK song address and cons here because I’ve read a lot of reviews complaining that the software doesn’t work with the keyboard. A lot of people are buying these keyboards just to get the software, I don’t understand why maybe because they want Drum pads with their micro keyboard. But they want the native suite also.
First off for all you losers that are buying keyboards and drum machines to rip off software serial numbers you’re an idiot. You’re ruining everyone else’s experience because you’re stupid. If you can’t even figure out how to pirate the software or do a basic Google search you’re a moron..... OK enough of that. All I can tell you is if you contact native instruments with your problem they will literally give you serial.
OK now for the rest of the stuff. Whenever using other DAWS You’re gonna have to do some set up. I don’t know a person that purchases one of these keyboards that isn’t a gearhead. But I’ll be honest with you I was up and running in Ableton 10 live In literally about 5 to 6 minutes. I even watched a couple YouTube videos just to make sure I had it right. I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, but if we wanna look at this as a con here I would say it is. Primarily when I look at product focused items literally these are experience needs to become flawless it doesn’t even matter if you’re using different software, if you’re going to charge people money for something and this goes out to you specifically native instruments, they should be able to use it on anything they want. Now for those of you that are going to be using this keyboard, do not fear set up to integrate into your music software is extremely easy.
No drum pads. But I didn’t get this keyboard for drum pads, honestly if you’re that broke and all you’re gonna do is focus on one tool, you’re a hobbyist. Get the Machine mini MK3 and have a blast it’s worth every penny.
OK let’s talk about the last con which is the size. I personally think the size is perfect but if you’re hedging your decision on shoving this thing in your backpack, you better get a tall backpack. Honestly, I would get a nice little Velcro strap and a nice little tote bag and pop this bad boy in there and strap it to the back your backpack. To be honest with you pulling this thing out in the park or in a coffee shop is totally rad and is meant to be use this way. But if you wanna get technical on the size, and that is going to make your buying decision break, Then don’t get this but to be honest with you it’s perfect in size.
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OK for the final part of this review, I just want to go ahead make a statement that I’m not a big native instruments fanboy. Actually the company irritates me with their Apple mentality. Music is meant to be open to the world and they should open source their damn software and handshake with other APIs. But you can bring machine and complete control into all the other music software so it’s redundant anyways. This is a good product as well as the machine micro MP3, I bought both together and it looks amazing on my desk.
Pro tip: One last thing that I want to take note of is that you can change the media maps to also function with your software like Photoshop and premiere and map the buttons to that. I did that with the machine micro MK 3
