Rolands approach with the System-8 is much better…controls are hardwired to parameters so muscle-memory can kick in and everything is fairly logical (admittedly remembering which filter type is 1 vs 2 etc can be challenging but a small oled screen could fix this) There’s zero scope for muscle memory and I don’t get the illusion that I’m working with a hardware instrument. But more hands-on control than the 8 knobs currently available is much needed ( and the KK keyboards have plenty of real estate to play with here).Ĭreating sounds from scratch with KK is possible but painful due to the lack of physical controls and requirement to navigate across multiple pages to find the parameter you want. Obviously some of these are going to be controlling different parameters depending on the plug-in loaded.

The knobs and faders typically control the same parameters regardless of the instrument / preset you have loaded.

Īrturia have done it quite nicely with Keylab series. The faders would be for synth control (envelopes probably best fit) and mixer level control.

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