Great video comparing keyboards SanjayC! Thanks so much for sharing!

Always count on you for the best reviews and comparison!

Seriously - thank you so much for this video (and of course, the individual videos for each series). Helps TREMENDOUSLY! And cute cat!

Your explanations are so clear that if you taught Quantum Field Theory at university, I would become a theoretical physicist.

Thank you so much for making this, I was literally stressing over which one I wanted. lol

Sanjay! Thank you so much for your videos! I have learned so much watching you!

That's a great high quality review! Thanks so much!

Sanjay this is EXACTLY what I was searching for Thanks brother!! Glad to subscribe!

Great demo and comparison! As usual, valuable content and well done video. Thanks.

Hey great review! I don't have any of these but I just watch it cuz I like ur vids

Great video! Quality at it's finest.

Thank you for making this video Sanjay. It made my day.

Thank you Sanjay for a really informative video in helping me make up my mind.

nice video, I want them all! lol. actually have the s49 black keys edition & its by far the best midi keyboard I've ever owned...also it looks really cool.

Great comparison review. Exactly what I was looking for 🙂👍

Very helpful video brother, much appreciated 🙏🏼

Helpful video - thank you. Would love to see the same thing for all the Arturia keyboards.

Fantastic Video on the Native Instruments Keyboards. Like your style of presenting, and your musicianship :)

This video has just been sooooo helpfull, very much appreciate it

Good review thank you, just purchased the S49 MK2 of the back of this!. Had the S25 but needed more keys. I imagine they didn't add pads because they have the Machine Mikro MK3 and would lose sales maybe?

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 You’re amazing at teaching!!!! Also, you should become a hand model! 😍🤲🏽👉🏽👋🏽

Bro i love your all videos about native Stuffs you roxx, thx from Berlin : )))

Love your videos dude!

Very helpful. Thanks man! :)

Love your videos! Really helpfull and honest

Great video! I have the s61 mk2 and love it. My only complaint is that I cannot use program changes to change MIDI templates. For live playing, it would be super helpful to be able to automatically switch to the right template per song. Anyways, keep up the great work!

Great job 👍 I learned alot saved me so much time

Thank you for you g through these keyboards Sanjay. I'm considering the S series 49 for my next one. Right now though, I'm getting the hang of my akai mini

Great overview!!

Thanks for the review,much needed

Thank you posting! I ended up with the M32 after watching our video on it. It’s a great first keyboard. Actually I have had others over the years, and at this price range most annoyed me more than made me smile. Twice a year I think NI has sales for upgrades for their software so I moved up to Komplete Select I think and next year I’ll move up to the full Komplete Control that can use all 3rd party plug ins. The NI plug ins work Garage Band and if I move to Logic Pro just as well. Maybe if I keep with this I’ll go for the NI S series 66 or even 88... but I do want to try their Maschine Jam and other Maschine instruments this winter. The control without the screens is still a huge improvement of control over other keyboards that control litttle or no daw functions. I hear good things about Arturia however. But I can see how the S series can enable you to have the keyboard farther away from your laptop or table and be less cramped on a desk and not need to actually mouse or look at your laptop much or at all. Thank you again for these videos. I’ll pass this one on to some friends who are into keyboards. :)

S88 with Maschine and the Komplete UCE with the Audio 6 is one great bundle for all productions. I love it and it is not too expensive. With KRK Monitors and a RAVEN System it is an absolute dream.

Komparison I see what you did there. S-erius MK2 as always. Stuck in the Komplete Kontrol ecosystem. Their integration made so many things a lot simpler and faster.

No compromise, the S series mk2 for me ! Thanks for this review ;-)

And...love my KK S49 MK2. It’s my first NI keyboard and it’s really good for an efficient workflow. DAW integration of Logic and Ableton is good, and Studio One looks promising. Sound preview with NKS was definitely a game changer. I’m also pleased with the seamless integration with the Mikro MK3 (takes good care of the drum pads issue and then some) and the Maschine Jam. Good times.

Really great video ! I have the S49 myself and I have to say, I love the way the keys feel and I love my S49! I agree with you too, Pads would’ve been so nice !

I got the A25, maybe should have waited for the M32 but I also have the Arturia Minilab for the go. I didn't have the space for the A49. Wonderful video as usual Sanjay!

4:55 Ok, I went to buy it when you said that! XD is same control in all the A-series but they just have more keys and wheels and I already have a M-Audio Keystation 61es so I just need the control. The possibility to put inside the (extra large) backpack is a plus. Now I can save to get a S-series ( QuO) That S88 is beautiful

Very good and helpful Video! Thank you for that, Sanjay! Do you think i can buy a cheap M32 just to browse presets and use the nobs und my other 88 midi-keyboard for playing? Do you think it is possible by just having both on USB in my computer? Or will they interfere each other? Thank you for your time! 👍🏼😅

fantastic video

Its always better to revisit ur old videos

Super content ! Please make a similar every Arturia keyboard comparison video

Hi Sanjay, wonderful review! At 12:08 approx, you mentioned explaining how to set up control knobs for other things in another video. Could you point me to that video? Thanks!

I’ve got an S61 and IMHO it has the best 61 note semi-weighted keybed currently on the market. It reminds me of my DX7’s keyboard which pretty much set the standard back in the ‘80s,

4:23 when you said PAD, all I could think of was FASCINATION from ANALOG PAD.Lol:D

Super video. Ive certainly come to the right place in checking out NI Komplete controllers. 👍

Thank you, well done. My DAW is Pro Tools 2020. How much control of the DAW will I get? Should I consider a different keyboard for use with Pro Tools?

Thanks for the video. It really helped clear up the differences. Out of curiosity, do you know how the keys on the S 88 compare to the Korg Rh three key bed?

Thanks for the review! My S49 works with Studio One 5 as well.

Great comparison!! Native instruments have the best keyboards in my opinion 😃

Thanks for helping me picked my choice: M32. Any chance you have heard anything about a S88 MK 3 coming in 2021?

I bought the S88. Cant wait to play !

Yea great overview. Thanks.

Awesome video. Does the M32 allow for loading plugins on to instruments, eg eq, reverb, delay, directly from the controler? Most importantly, can you confirm if the M32 has accessibility support for narrator and voice over please? Thank you for your channel.

Love the video. Just wanting to make sure but would this work with MainStage?

Hi, I love your reviews. I’m contemplating the s49 or s61. Can the s49 use all of the lighted keyboard functions for the NI acoustic session plug-in without changing octaves? Thanks

Hi sanjay, great video I'm looking for my first keyboard not a pianist and I can't decide between arturia keylab 49 mk2 and komplete kontrol a49 considering only the keybed feel which do you recommend nothing else matters not even aftertouch but the keybed feel

I just saw some comments on other channel complaining no Velocity curve setting in M and A series and their NI forum is filled with same complaints. They say it may come in the updated firmware release. Maybe many units have defective velocity curve. The complainers say despite hitting the keys with full force it doesn't give full velocity.

I was thinking ‘this thing needs pads’ and then right after that...you mentioned the thing would have been perfect if it had pads. ‘I KNOW!’ I screamed :/ feel you on that one

Hi Sanjay, I'm trying to find a 61 key size but with the best possible piano semi-weighted feel, do you think the AS61 takes me there? Thanks so much for your helpful videos & Happy New Year. :)

Thank you for another informative and fantastic review. I'm wanting to buy the S series but I'm not sure if I should go for the 49 or 61 key? I have a 88 key Yamaha DGX640 (I'm not a great piano player, I dabble). Is 49 keys plenty for most things or would I be better off going with the larger one? Is there any difference between the S49 and S61? Also, looking for a drum pad and not sure if I should get the MK3 or Mikro? Are having the nice display screens an advantage to have on both keyboard and drum pad? Lastly, do you have a video or would you do one on the different Software Packages with advantages and disadvantages of them and what is good all around software package to buy? Thank you for all your great info and videos! Brian

Hi Sanjay, thank you for another excellent video! Did you mention Maschine compatibility with these keyboards? Because I'm kind of interested in that software as an alternative to Live which I currently use, but I'm more of a keyboard player than a beat maker and I don't have the place for most of the Maschine hardware.

Great video! Does it come with Ableton Live Lite?

This is all overwhelming for me. Creating music has been my life passion and I'm finally going for it. My issue is where to start. So many Daws to choose from. So many awesome keyboard midis to choose from. My head is spinning after all this research. Is there a recommended set up that's not too cheap, not over the top but just right for someone who is taking this serious and doesnt want to quickly be in need of something more advanced than the minis and ableton lite? Will trade a big HUG for any advice.

I've been needing a keyboard for travel, and I think I'm leaning toward the M32 over the A25. For some reason, it just seems more practical with the 32 keys, even though the 25 keys are closest to the style of keys I commonly play. It would help to have some keyboard where I could automate effects on the spot, and Komplete Kontrol's integration with Waves effects plug-ins makes the controller good for even mixing too! If only they launched an A32....

Hi Sanjay Hi, thanks for the review. I read a review in amazon where the guy says that with S49 MKIi you can't go back (recall) to a recorded track without losing the setup you had in that track (talking about the keyboard setting). Is it true? maybe not the instrument you chose but the parameters you set up earlier with the Keyboard. Please let me know. I'm' the kind of guy that goes back and forward in a song. (changing arpeggiator from the keyboard, modulation for effects, etc. I want to buy one but I'm afraid I'm losing the small print on this one. Can you help me by highlight what is annoying or what can not do that you regret? Thanks in advance for those great videos and so calm to talk about every tool...

Many thanks, Sanjay...It was a tossup between the a 49 and s 49, and you made up my mind for me. I trust your judgement. 😁

My little experience (S49 MK2). --------- LIKE: 1 - Fatar mechanics, 2 - Pleasant to the touch keys, 3 - The keys quiet (do not creak and not knock, unlike cheap midi clas, that it was important to me), 4 - Aftertouch --------- DISLIKE: 1 - Square design with sharp corners, like stump .. It looks very primitive. It is not comfortable to put a hand in the Pitch area - corners put on hand .. put physically and psychologically. Before that, I had a budget Midi keyboard of another manufacturer - the design was cool, streamlined, futuristic. 2 - Unreasonably cumbersome - it takes a lot of space on the table, and half of the space walks nothing busy .. Uzhos. And these two displays, I almost do not use. It would be better if the panel above the keys was two or three times less. 3 - Despite the fact that the keyboard is cumbersome, for some reason they have not placed at least a few faders for control ... It is not clear to me when these controls are even in cheap midi keyboards of other manufacturers. 4 - Pitch and modulation wheels are too cumbersome. Under them unsuccessfully placed the belt controller. When you turn the Pitch - in any case, you touch the ribbon controller and change its parameters. 5 - The backlight of the keys does not turn off, and also does not regulate its brightness, which is not very convenient .. Sometimes it interferes and puts on the eyes ... especially with dim light in the room. 6 - I did not find how to switch the presets in the usual midi mode through the Program Chang parameter. It is possible to assign only to the knob, which is not very convenient. Usually presets are switched by buttons by one value, and not spin. And it is spinning so fast that they slip through three. 7 - Even their native sampler Kontakt in DAW without a Komplete Kontrol does not support all this powerful backlight with zones .. native Kontakt !!! Very much damp and not convenient. (It works only with the running of Kontakt through the plug-in Komplete Kontrol, but it is not convenient, and there are no obvious problems there, as well as with such a use of a higher load on the processor.) 8 - Komplete Kontrol not convenient and not practical. Everything is loaded for a very long time, it sounds not as normal professional synthesizers ... the idea is good, the implementation is a complete garbage. It does not work as it should, and does not sound as it should. (I have many real synthesizers from 80-90, there is something to compare with ... everything works fast, clearly and beautiful ... I have a good idea of ??how professional instrument should work correctly 9 - I did not understand why the TS MODE function is needed, which should be activated via Shift on the Fixed Vel button. In the manual did not bother to describe her appointment. ---- Despite the many shortcomings, first of all, I was important to have a pleasant and quiet Fatar mechanics - I received it .... It remains to hope for the durability of German quality. A normal arpeggiator would not hurt, which would simply work with the keyboard in any DAW and in the midi mode with external equipment - without of Komplete Kontrol. Also did not hinder several controllers in the form of faders. If keyboard was more compact and licked without sharp corners - it would be generally wonderful. Well, it would be possible to add control of the brightness of the backlight of the keys, as well as the normal switching of presets of external synthesizer through Program Change.

Hi I have heard that NATIVE A SERIES keyboards ARP function only works with KONTROL SOFTWARE and not other third party Plugins. Is it true? As I am am planning to purchase A 49 in these 2..3 days or should I purchase some other. Please suggest

Hi Sanjay, do you know which keyboard has the biggest keys between the M32 keys and the Keystep / minilab? Thank you a lot

Hey, Sanj at the min 9:40 TO CHANGE THE...that sound press was quite loud. Is it ok?

Does the hammer action of the S88 hamper fluid playing of non-piano instruments like brass and strings?

Nice i m new subscriber of you

Buying the S49 tomorrow alongside the Maschine Mk3. Can't wait

I bought the S61 to accompany my Maschine Mikro Mk3. Didn't quite work out that way because now the Mikro is accompanying the S61, which is a beast. I'm not one to splurge, normally I'd have gone for the A-series to save money but I'm so glad I spent the extra. I find myself barely looking up at the monitor. The only things I don't like are that I can't control Pro-Tools (fuck Avid, so hard - I seriously hope they go out of business) and that sometimes I'm not in the mood to make music.

i really like the strumming ability , great for creating stems

1:13 - M32 5:28 -A series 7:27 -S49 and S61 12:25 - S88 13:56 - Included Software 14:47 -DAW Compatibility

Sanjay got the s88 thank to you. What kind of app I should use for learning piano 4 the s88 thank 😁🙏🥳

Really great instruments sir .... I wish to buy one of them but sir you know about me😊😊😊.... I hope later on I'll be buy one of them.... Thanks sir

Sometimes with these manufacturers you have to use a magnifying glass to find out some details. For instance, in the S series of Native Instruments: the S49 and S61 DO have Fatar keybeds, (I once owned an 88 key Fatar keyboard years ago) BUT they are NOT the same piano action Fatar keybed of the S88. The S88 therefore weighs more than twice as much as an S61, weighing around 29 pounds. So looks like NI produces keyboards in 3 steps (qualities): that of the A series, that of the non-S88 S series, and the S88. I love the sound of the octave two octaves below the middle C, and to enjoy that sound without using the octave knob/button, I'd have to get an S61. The S49 would deprive me of that whole octave. But anyhow, I need to get back to piano classes on my 30 year old upright 42" piano and maybe next year I'd be justified spending the $800 on an S61....we BOYS AND OUR TOYS...😜😆😁

14:52 What about Propellerheads REASON?

Sanjay I have a question for you. Which is better. Having a Maschine mk3 and a native instruments m32 and all that they come with plus 200.00 worth of plug-ins. Or a ableton push 2 with ableton 10 suite.

I am looking for a keyboard to use with eastwest composer cloud. 61keys is enough but it's really hard to choose a good keyboard with the best features.

I love my M32 but somehow I know I'm going to eventually end up with an S49 😉

Nice 👍 👏👏👏👏👍love your video Sanjay C

Hello Sanjay. can you please tell me how to get the Pitchbend Wheel working on the Native Instruments S61 MK32 Komplete Keyboard? I tried everything! I've only had the keyboard for a few days. On my other Keyboards, the pitch bend wheels work straight out of the box! I really enjoy your youtube videos.!

Thaq bro

Maybe this exists, but it would Be nice to see a new keyboard like m32 with even 10 sounds onboard for those situations when you just need to use it without a computer. Otherwise the bundle is just awesome :)

Love this comparison Sanjay. But even after watching thru, I couldn't decide. I know I'm 2 yrs late. :) I own the S88 Mk2 and recent work have had the need for me to travel more often than not thus I'm looking to get a travel-size keyboard to do some editing during my commute. Can't decide between the M32 or the A25. I'm keen on the M32 for the extra keys but the small keys felt dinky (compared to the S88 fatars) and the shop here didn't have the A25. Does that A25 fit a normal sized backpack?? What's your final thought. Any other makes that you'd suggest? I'm on Logic with Komplete and Orchestration samples.

So as I purchase the midi keyboard, all the sounds and effects would be included too? Or do I need to purchase sounds

It can connect with FL? Nice Overview!

professional/producer quality vids

One thing I want to point out is that on the S Series 49 key MK II I've had two keyboards I had to return because they that had inconsistent feel to the knobs as far as when you turn them also the keys on the lower octave tend to be less springy and on the higher octave. I'm on my third keyboard that I received and it's the same exact problem. So there is definitely a quality control issue with Native Instruments as far as the S series. I can't speak for the other line of their keyboards since I've never owned them.

Sanjay. What is your suggestion on 37keys controller?

Dada..today I went to buy MIDI CONTROLLER but returned without it, I just purchased KRK CLASSIC. I am confused Native A 49, keylab 49, or M Audio Carbon pro....I am still not that much serious but yes I would be starting it in next 3 years?? Which controller should I buy?? I think I should also purchase MACHINE MICRO or PRESONUS ATOM ...now What should I prefer? Please Suggest

Which do you reccomend, the arturia midi keyboards or native instruments keyboards.

If you could choose 1 keyboard between the alesis v49 and the komplete kontrol A49/61 witch one would you choose???

Does the S49 have a feature to change to different octaves like the tiny models do? Thanks. Great video. It's very helpful. I've wondered what the differences are between their series of keyboards.

Great video! I have an A49 and the build quality is great, but not being able to set its velocity curve is making me consider returning it. Do the M32 and S series have this issue too?