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I've bent through trial and triumph to earn myself my own laptop, and not only do I enjoy the freedom and journey to get it, but I've had zero problems, tons of fun, and it's reliable to make music for me!

To be honest the only reason this product isn't 5 stars is I've found it incredibly hard to integrate with any DAW I've wanted to use it for. I haven't had much trouble setting it up as a MIDI controller, but in terms of accessing the Ultranova's power and software into a DAW, it's been unattainable for me so far. I know there's a way to do it through an Ultranova Editor VST in your DAW, but the plugin is very hard to get working on it's own, much less with the Ultranova. Besides all this, working with the standalone Ultranova has been incredible. It simply has everything and sounds great. In fact, every time I look for motivation and inspiration, my steps are to 1) take a break and listen to music, and 2) play around on the Ultraova. Incredible, interesting sounds are very attainable and in my early years I even found intrigue in simply turning parameters mindlessly. Make very powerful leads, pads, and especially basslines in minutes just by toying with it. A great synth.

Not much to say here... very tough, reliable, and professional. The best controller for Ableton Live available and therefore the best live performance sample-triggering controller available. Great product. Great integration with Ableton.

I bought these for $170 on Promo, but today you can get them from $100 to $150. They have incredible sound quality, and honestly they're the only thing I currently listen to music and produce with. One of the best sound quality headphones on the market, and for an incredible price. Very comfortable and they look good too! Sound Quality 9/10 Price 9/10 Comfort 8/10 Look 8.5/10

I recently switched from Ableton Live 9 to FL Studio 12 and after fooling around and getting a good handle on all the basics, I've decided FL fits my workflow and excites my organizational standards more than any prior DAW I've spent the time getting to know (Logic Pro X & Ableton Live 9 Intro). Understanding the unique integration between channels and patterns took a little getting used to, but now I feel comfortable enough to have created a basic formulaic workflow within it. For people with 'mixer' MIDI controllers (such as Launch Control XL, MIDI keyboards with other knobs and parameters)... I love how all of my hardware MIDI controllers are for the most part unassigned and ready to be variously manipulated from track to track. This is compared to how Ableton Live will auto assign all knobs, buttons, and faders to specific 'general' parameters, i.e. panning, volume, mute, sends... It tries to replicate session view onto the controller, and this actually lessens the sense of creativity and personification for me. On the flip side of this, Ableton is the best performance DAW, and for that reason I would recommend Ableton over FL in a live setting; I'm talking strictly for production purposes. When opening FL and hooking up my gear, I was truly excited to learn that most of my controller parameters were unassigned and waiting to be accessed according to my priorities and wants. I was able to have my entire studio at my ready; I didn't have to go back to unassign/reassign and organize my controller throughout the entire production process. The VST's are all powerful, thorough, and interesting. I really like effect VST's such as Parametric EQ 2, Maximus, Grossbeat, and Fruity Reeverb 2. Effects like these I prefer for being so thorough yet understandable. The synth VST's are great. A master at Harmour could use only 1/4 of its features to make some of the toughest, most interesting sounds achievable, but the scale of thoroughness and difficulty touches on all ends of the spectrum from synths like Plucked! to synths like Harmour or Toxic Biohazard. Going off of this, FL makes it easy for you to work your way up. Once you know the basics to operating this DAW, it provides you with basic VST's that you can learn and master with ease (but also consistency) to start making very basic yet respectable tracks. By the time you reach a level of proficiency in some 3-10 years, I can already tell how guiding yet insanely complex it will seem looking back.