Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol M32 5-stars Reviews

good midi keyboard

excellent midi keyboard for the price and quality,,,,,,,,,

work perfectly

Best low price 32 key

Keyboard touch is nice, very nice...

Although it is not a real piano keyboard, but the feedback is good,

I think the keyboard is the best, compare to other small keyboard.

Komplete Kontrol and the function when I use Ableton is not as good as profession midi device.

But if you need some smaller ,handy midi toys. Buy this, not Akai.

Great addition

Great addition for my NI setup on the road

Great for its class!

Very good quality for the price, and has 32 keys while most small keyboards have 25. Solid knobs and plenty of them for most tasks, especially if you use Komplete Kontrol software. The touch strips for pitch and modulation are not ideal, but it's understandable at this size and you get use to it.

A downside would be the rather poor flexibility and configurability as a MIDI controller. Not much you can do beside use it as it is, you cannot configure it as you can a Maschine.

Best budget midi controller

It is a well made, sturdy midi controller with a nice key touch, good controls for Ableton, and VSTs, coming with some useful bundled software. The only downside is there are no pads, but NI always keeps their pads separate from keys.

I use it for EDM production, exploring different sounds in Komplete Kontrol or instruments in Kontakt.

I would definitely suggest this midi controller, especially if you want to upgrade to Komplete Select software, which is way cheaper than buying it directly.

Great midi board, very easy to use, feels great and it comes with a lot of useful software. Definitely recomended

Komplete M32

Bang for the buck. This is the on-the-go- keyboard for me. I got myself a full version kontakt and Its really delivers the complete NKS experience as I have lotsa third party vst to run with kontakt.

I got no problem with the tiny keys even tho i got huge fingers. A truly perfectly usable keyboard for me.

Easily the best midi keyboard out there!

Nice little keyboard

Plugs easily, I like the looks and feel of it. Made of plastic, but doesn't feel shaggy at all.

Use it mostly for playing MIDI parts, so my pitch and mod wheels tend to be neglected most of the time.

Expectable quality by NI

I ordered this keyboard to use in music production. The packaging was simple, clean and efficient. No problems there. The keyboard itself is made of sturdy plastic. Albeit not expensive in materials, it holds up quite well. The keys and buttons also feel decent.

One thing I did not like with this keyboard; the drivers and DAW configuration. It was a painstaking process and took around half of an entire day. I had to download the NI app, then install the Komplete Kontrol set through that app, Then, I had to download a seperate Komplete Kontrol driver updater, which did not seem to recognize the keyboard. After some digging online I realized it didnt work on Windows 7 and I had to update. After that was done, I had to configure it with my DAW (FL studo), which was also a pain in the ass. After navigating through all of that, as well as adjusting the key velocity sensitivity in the DAW, the keyboard finally worked quite well. Most if not all of the important buttons seem to work fine with FL Studio 20.

Despite the software shortcomings, this keyboard is well worth the price once you get it working. Highly recommend it to anyone producing music on a budget.

The KEY to Music Production

I think this is the perfect MIDI-keyboard for it you are on a budget or if you travel a lot. The keyboard fits perfectly into 15''-laptop bags and doesn't take up too much space on a desk. Yet the 32 key layout feels just right and gives you enough flexibility to play complicated chords and it's a huge step up from anything under its price range! The software it comes with is high quality and very intuitive and the integration of the MIDI-keyboard is very good with the most common DAWs and plugins! I would honestly recommend this product to anyone looking for a MIDI-keyboard to jumpstart their music production career with!

Nice keys

The keyboard offers a good plastic quality and very nice keys. It is a pleasure to work with it. A little bit hard to get it work with Ableton Live, but there is a lot information how to do it. I guess Windows 10 is needed.

But once you do it, you will be happy with your purchase.

A fluid way to jam!

I highly recommend this MIDI keyboard if you are using Ableton Live 10 or above. The M32 is very easy to setup and comes with an absolute TON of additional FREE software.

The plugins it comes with are part of the Native Instruments library and honestly I do find myself using them in my productions.

Build quality is great. Key travel isn't massive but still enough to give a good feeling feedback when you are playing notes.

Looks great as well and you can basically control Ableton from this without really touching your mouse. You can skip through your arrangement view, play & stop, record in and change channel volumes all from the buttons on this MIDI controller.

Good small kontroller

After fighting a bit with installing the software on my mac running LPX, i finally got to enjoy the thing. It plays well with responsive keys and great layout. The sounds that are bundled are Great and the transport controls a blessing.

Great add on bundle for 99 bucks is well worth it.

All around a great addition to my tiny home studio.

hi, I am trying to establish home studio using Komplete Audio 2 with Komplete Kontrol M32, as I am not a professional, just to mention the installation went easily no problems at all.

The product looks good as I expected! Windows10/64b.

Love it!

I'm an active user of NI products. After 1 year of owning Komplete Kontrol S49 mk2 which I like a lot, I needed to switch my keyboard for something smaller. No doubt my choice fell on new M32.

So what can I say... Great product: looks nice, very lightweight, interface designed very smartly.

Keys are just good, size is like on Arturia Keystep. It's not Fatar keys, of course, but it's okay for playing and aren't in any way uncomfortable.

It's a very good option for any nomad musician who uses just software synthesizers for music producing (cause M32 doesn't have midi or cv gates).

Really happy!

The quality is superb, it feels really nice to make music with it. Maybe feature wise is lacking the drum pads and faders, but by the size and price in unbeatable. Also the software included is pretty neat. Keys are really confortable to work with and the knobs are also quite nice.

It's also kinda compact so, consider it as an entry level controller or as a mobile controller IF you have longer bagpack.

Great Starting Keyboard

Integrates perfectly with ableton, makings writing chords and melodies a doddle. Pots very reactive. Perfect for playing my Volca Keys! Comes with loads of software and freebies, I havent even scratched the surface really. If you can play the piano however I would advise one of the larger keyboards as the 32 keys are limiting for intricate playing.