With most vocal collections, for example West Africa, you select a sample over a set of green keys and then play that sample with a blue key. Instead Native is talking about how the Light Guide LEDs interact with its Komplete software and other Kontakt or Reaktor instruments.Īnyone familiar with a typical Kontakt instrument will know that the keyboard is colour coded to represent splits, key switches, zones or features typical to an instrument. The company is not talking about lit keys to learn to play because that has been done before. This system is called Light Guide, which Native Instruments claims is the first of its kind. Next up we talk lights, and this is where the real joy happens. I was worried that the displays would suffer under high light conditions but, as I write this on a bright and sunny afternoon, they are perfectly visible and well designed – and they should be, as they are incredibly important to the whole Komplete Kontrol concept.
Connect it up and all the LEDs above the keyboard light up blue and the eight screens reveal which controller data they are set up for.
So after this light show you’re left with a couple of displays saying ‘Connect Computer’ in a rather understated and direct way – ‘say please’, I thought. How wrong I was, as we will see (a lot more on this later).Ĭlick Here To Read Our Overview of The S-Series I have to admit, when I first saw this at a demo in London I thought it was simply a cosmetic addition – Native Instruments trying to add a little colour to our keyboards. Like Maschine before it, though, (and thankfully an increasing amount of hardware these days, including the aforementioned AIRA range) the real action is revealed when you power the unit up.Įlectric life seemingly courses into it and, for an instance, this electricity sweeps through a set of multi-coloured LEDs, each positioned above a note on the keyboard. It was powered down, looked like a black slab, quite slick but not hinting at the excitement to come. First Impressions I wasn’t as excited as I am now when I first saw the keyboard.
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