Studiologic SL73 Studio

Beautiful Hardware - Questionable Firmware.

I might be alone on this but I just wanted a High quality Midi Keyboard that felt close to a real piano. Essential features like mod wheel / pitch bend - potentially dials for macros (which this doesn't have fyi). I was really impressed with the build quality and the feel of the keys. It feels great, it's super high quality and I don't see anything breaking anytime soon (I've had it for over a year now). Now the thing that I don't like is the firmware. It's completely unintuitive. It seems like there's a lot of inbuilt sounds? But they load into 4 separate slots?? I have no idea, I can't make sense of it and don't want to. Instead of changing octaves being a simple button, you have to go into the settings. I now use it with Studio One and leave UA Luna only for mixing / tracking. It would glitch with Luna ALL the time. Randomly changing to "x soundback 456" or something random and becoming unresponsive. I would then have to turn it off and on again. It has worked fine with Studio One so far. Again, great physical quality. But I really don't like the inbuilt firmware.

A superb full featured workhorse!

Great for composing or controlling live MIDI. Full featured, with more settings and configurability than you need in a lifetime! Built like a tank!

Feeling of a real piano in an inexpensive keyboard

The beauty of this is that you can play any piano and get the same feeling out of it as if it were real. the keys have the right weight and feedback. I love this keyboard and do not regret purchasing it

Studiologic SL73 Studio

Great built quality, TP100LR keys are really great, only downfall is the funny joystick keys, they are not so precise. Mod wheels would be better much better feel. But overall, for the price i think there is no better midi keyboard.

Great keys for the price

Great keys for the price but could also take some improvements.

Pros

- Keys feel great! Better than expected for the price.

- The 3 joysticks are mappable and super useful.

- Good build quality overall. Nice metal casing.

Cons

- Lacking a couple of knob controls.

- Side panels feel like cheap plastic.

- Found absolutely no use of the menu options accessible from the screen. Imho, I would exchange the screen with a couple knobs and drum pads anytime.

studio logic SL73

The strength of this keyboard is relatively good, the feel is first-class, and the control interface is relatively convenient. I like this feel, which will make me return to music and create with my heart. The only disadvantage is the poor packaging and international logistics and transportation. It takes a long time, and the damage to the box will be a little serious. Fortunately, the piano is still in good condition. I hope the official side can pay more attention to the packaging of the goods.

Sweet & Sour

The Studiologic S73 is wonderfully compact and lightweight, offering some sweet sounding, tweakable pianos & respectable accompaniments ie. strings). This is soured only by a few features: a keyboard which is more clunky than some would care for, and some software issues (ie. non-saving of 'tone' changes made to default settings). With a few bugs being addressed, this would represent good value for money.

Not bad! But try to play it before buying.

The keybed is a love/hate affair. It's heavy and clunky, which some might enjoy, and some might despise. Try to play it before purchase. Other than that, a fine product for a great price!

Very good keyboard for low price

Pluses:

- good keyboard for low price

- natural tactile feel

- velocity curve editor

- bright, color and small screen

- light weight for types of this keyboards

- good quality of materials, well built

- good size for home studio and live concerts

- package included simple pedal

Minuses:

- main joystick is a not a good quality, some times you need push twice in process

- midi sticks in the left side of keyboard is a not really useable for fast work, small for fingers after usual pitch and expression that on other keyboards

- buttons near joystick are very loud for quite situations on concert

In fact very glad about this keyboard, and iam working in Ableton.

Nice controller, but..

+ Very nice and stylish appearance. + The keyboard is heavy like a real grand piano.

But there are also disadvantages.

1. In the first month of use, the sensitivity of one key became maximum. I solved this problem by lowering the sensitivity in the application.

2. It's hard to explain but. When playing the vst instrument, there was no sense of control over the sound, as for example on the Nord stage. Even playing on my lightweight Novation Launchkey 2 felt better. And I am a professional pianist.

3. When recording midi in Logic pro X - 2 notes are recorded instead of one. The problem goes away when you turn off 3 of 4 keyboard split zones.

4. Still not used to the XY controller.

As a result, I decided to sell it.