Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2 : Worth buying? Absolutely yes - wish I had had it before1

I use this keyboard with Cubase 10.5, and a decent Kontakt sample library I've been collecting for years. I bought the keyboard because my new studio desk didn't fit the 88 note weighted keyboard I normally use. The gizmos and gadgets were kind of interesting, but were not really part of my buying decision. How stupid I was. This thing is really, really useful in ways I'd not imagined. Most useful to me is the time saving. With Spitfire samples, the ones I use most, it can take quite a while to load a patch to discover it's wrong, so you pick another and another. This keyboard grabs a short sample of the sounds on offer from what you have in your library and turning the knob lets you hear a tiny sample. This small feature is worth the money alone. You must use the Kontakt control app, and not the normal Kontakt VST you used to use - on mine I couldn't;t work out why the features didn't work, until I noticed the extra VST in t he list, and as soon as you get used to using this, you can start using the keyboard screens and knobs. The less on each key also help with key switches and different sounds - I'm very impressed with it and wish I'd bought one when they first came out!