Native Instruments hat für seine Komplete Serie ein extra dafür entwickeltes Keyboard mit allerlei speziellen Funktionen auf den Markt gebracht. Damit sollen die Bedienung und die Innovation beim Musikmachen mit dem Komplete Software Bundle 10 um einiges gesteigert werden. Den Tastenspaß gibt es in 3 Ausführungen:
- 25 Tasten: 499,- Euro
- 49 Tasten: 599,- Euro
- 61 Tasten: 699,- Euro
DJ TechTools hat in einem Video einen kleinen Überblick über die Features gegeben. Mehr Infos zum Keyboard gibt es bei Native Instruments.
The S-Series packs a few serious hardware features that bring them above and beyond the traditional MIDI keyboards, including:
- Komplete Browser – tag-based access to all KOMPLETE Instrument presets from one plug-in interface. Instead of browsing by instrument, users can now search by sound
- Native Map™ technology – automatically maps all key parameters for each KOMPLETE Instrument to the touch-sensitive controller knobs – all clearly visible on the keyboards’ Clear View™ display. Each instrument was carefully mapped by NI sound designers to arrange the most relevant parameters on pages laid out on the keyboard’s display.
- Light Guide: shows key switches, zones, and more on multi-color LEDs positioned just above the keys, and also provide performance feedback – scales, chords, and arpeggios light up across the keyboard as they are played.
- Smart Play:. Chord mode lets producers play complex chords with single keys. Chord Set mode provides ready-to-play progressions that can inspire and augment original compositions or add new flavor to remixes. The integrated scale mapping features deliver fast access to new melodic possibilities – notes of the currently selected scale light up on the Light Guide. Many widely-used musical scales can also be mapped to the white keys.
- Touch Kontrol: Touch strips in the place of traditional mod wheels mimic the behavior of pitch and mod wheels, and physical objects like springs and bouncing balls for interesting modulation curves
