Komplete Kontrol A61 : Most beautiful touch in this price range

Build & Quality

Just amazing. I didn't expect everything to feel so well-built. Everything feels nice - the knobs, the wheels feel AMAZING. The mod wheel is smooth as butter. It's heavier than most, but if you're a producer using VST (which, I suppose is 95% of the reason one gets MIDI keys), I can only imagine that being a plus. In general, all the knobs have a good heavy-solid feel to them.

I'm comparing it to some previous keys I've had:

Nektar impulse, Arturia keylab essential, Korg SP100, Novation impulse

The keys are great. As semi-weighted keys, it obviously makes piano expressions much better than non-weighted ones.

The cons:

The only one I can think of so far is the tiny screen. I don't think an LCD screen could've been that pricey. I hope they had put one at least as big as the Arturias