Arturia Keystep 37

En hirveästi midi kontrolleita tunne mistä verrata, mutta tässä on paras nappi tuntuma tähän mennessä kaikista mitä oon kokeillut, sähköpianot mukaan lukien. Ei ole semmonen vastaan taisteleva muovinen olo mitä aikasemmissa kokeilemissani, vaan napit kolahtaa mieluisan jämäkästi pienellä vastuksella ja ovat myös sopivan pitusia.

Arpeggio ja sequensserien kanssa säätö on myös tosi intuitiivista eikä tarvinnut edes ohjekirjasta luntata neuvoja.

Ainoa huono puoli minkä keksin on se että sopiva reppu tämän roudaamiseen oli vaikea löytää, mutta se mahtuu esim. Magma Riot DJ-Backpack XL:ään muiden tavaroiden kanssa.

I bought this midikeyboard for basic music production to control and play software intruments in Ableton. It has been great for my purposes. It covers the features for me and I haven't even used all of them yet. Keys are always compromise in small keyboards, but these are good.
What I like the most is the weight and the dimensions. It fits nicely on my table, not taking too much space and it is heavy enough to not have flimsy feeling while not being too heavy either. Just perfect. I also like the color. Reminds me of storm troopers from Star Wars.
Knobs and all feel good quality.

I bought this mostly for the size. As far as I can see there are very few compact, three octave MIDI controllers around, and most smaller controllers have those silly tiny keys whereas this has somewhere a little larger which makes playing much nicer. It is comfortable to play, with enough resistance to allow expression when used with something sensitive to velocity.

The overall build quality seems excellent and nothing stood out as wrong or odd. I have removed one star for features due to the fact that there seems to be no way to dim the LEDs behind the buttons, and I find this quite distracting and uncomfortable in darker rooms as the lights are really quite bright!
One other thing, which may be changeable via some settings that I have not been able to find, is that if used for sending pitch voltage it seems that the higher voltage cutoff is a little badly placed with the keys. If I am in the middle of the keyboard's ranger then I run out of notes when I get to the higher keys, and so if using 1v/octave synths I have to have the controller set an octave lower in order to be able to have adequate playing range. I feel like the voltage range should be set around the middle range of the controller. It's not really a problem (except for meaning I always have to have that octave- LED on when playing synths!).

Honestly I didn't really dig in to the sequencer and arpeggiator a lot as I bought this mostly for playing the keys, but from what I have explored they work perfectly well and the sequencer seems excellent.

No issues with MIDI connectivity, or really anything else that I have not already mentioned. I've had this a few weeks and overall am very happy with it as a compact controller!