Feel one with Cubase

After some minor hiccups, everything's been smooth sailing (yay for forgetting to install the Windows drivers). Love Nektar's integration with Cubase when it comes to the P1 and P6. Only thing I feel beats Nektar's stuff are the iPad/iPhone stuff out there (Cubase iC Pro if you want plug-and-play; Lemur or TouchOSC if you want to get your hands dirty). I like having that tactile feel you can't replicate with an iPad though...

cool keyboard for space constraints

Being the impulsive shopper I am, I purchased this online after getting all juiced up on how cool it looks and for the most part it fits the bill for what I need.

Context: Im a guy downsizing from an 88 Key fully weighted CME UFE Classic that I loved. I needed a keyboard that was professional quality that would slide away into an under table drawer I built based on my new apartments space constraints.

Styles I Do: West Coast Hip-Hop, Funk, Bounce, Boom-Bap, Dance, Trap

Pros: For Semi-Weighted, I do kinda like the synth action. its fun and bouncy but still feels semi substantial. The onboard mapping is cool (however I hardly ever use my midi controllers for this. The keyboard is sexy looking.

Cons: Feels a bit plasticy and light. The pads are thin and not pillowy.

Deep Bitwig Integration

This is a beast, I have used in on so many tracks that I composed for games and film the past years. It has deep and wonderful integration with both Logic Pro X and Bitwig Studio. It keeps running and Nektar Tech was very swift replying when I got a small problem with the motorized fader. They sent me a replacement board for the fader and now I'm up and running with it again. Top Support!

VERY INTUITIVE

EXCELLENT CONTROL, THE MOTORIZED FADER FOR AUTOMATION IS GREAT. DEEP INTEGRATION WITH MULTIPLE SOFTWARES

Fantastic Controller!!

Amazing DAW integration. Drivers occasionally go MIA but that might just be my PC it the ghost within the machine. Simply said this is a fantastic DAW with direct VST integration and no wrappers to add latency or DAW glitching. In this case glitching would be a bad thing ;)

Love it!

This keyboard is excellent. Very responsive, decent key size and weight for a keyboard controller. I love playing on this keyboard, I use it for every production. The mechanical automation is a great tool as well!

This is a great piece of gear that integrates well with any DAW that I use.

I use it for FL Studio as assignments are very easy. I love the automated motorized fader and overall functionality of this MIDI controller. The only cons is that the black keys are a little higher than my personal preference and they seems to have a more stiffer feel to them, which makes it harder to play at times.

Great promises made untrue, but good for what it does do.

If you advertise that your hardware/software/firmware does something, make sure it does it and not just with DAWs you feel like supporting, so please get automapping plugs in Bitwig already. And if we can use the modulation control on VSTs, that would be really nice to not have keep going back to keyboard and mouse just to modulate something.

Exceptional, but.....

This keyboard does not map natively to Ableton. If you are patient enough, you can use a workaround (which I do,) but aside from that a great keyboard.

Great for Mainstage

Use this controller for seamless integration with Mainstage live. Easy mapping that makes the soft synths feel like hardware.