Native Instruments’ new keyboard controller is affordable and backpack-ready
As usual, hardware and software company Native Instruments has announced a slew of new products for this year’s NAMM show. Last year, the Berlin-based company focused on launching sample platform sounds.com and showing off pricier flagship products, but this year Native Instruments put the focus on affordable versions of its tech. That includes, among other things, the new Komplete Kontrol M32 keyboard controller.
The Komplete Kontrol M32 carries many of the same visual hallmarks found in its more expensive counterparts in the A and S series, like the push encoder for navigating and a small navigation screen, but it does strip a couple elements away. Instead of wheels for pitch and modulation, for example, there are touch strips instead....