Controllers

A compact USB MIDI keyboard controller for the musician on the move, but with full-size keys and polyphonic aftertouch too!

At first glance, the Max49 seems much like other controller keyboards, but it’s got a surprise up its sleeve...

Miniature controller keyboards can be incredibly useful for making music on location. The new Korg MicroKey family of velocity...

The Graphite is Samson’s first foray into the world of keyboards — and it’s an impressive debut.

The Impulse controllers are cost-effective, yet seem generously specified — so where’s the catch?

Looking for a compact controller keyboard costing not much more than a bag of chips? Look no further...

Are Akai's mini MIDI controllers the perfect partners for your laptop?

After an extensive programme of selective breeding, Novation have created the Nocturn 25 — an affordable, touch-sensitive controller keyboard.

The Axiom Pro showcases M-Audios controller keyboard know-how and debuts their brand-new Hyper Control technology, which is designed to make adjusting software parameters quicker and easier.

The tiny MPK25 goes beyond knobs and buttons alone, offering MPC-style drum pads for added versatility.

The updated SL range rejoices in touch-sensitive knobs and sliders, and in Novations ingenious Automap technology.

Long-term players in the controller keyboard game, Fatar have brought all of their expertise to bear on the Numa — so is it as sophisticated as it is stylish?

The CME UF80 offers a weighted, hammer-action 88-note keyboard at a knockdown price. Is it too good to be true?

Akai will be best known to SOS readers for their samplers and ever-popular MPC range — so what can they bring to the controller keyboard party?

Edirol's updated PCR keyboard range offers more controls than ever, and a software editor to make the most of them. Let's check it out...

This controller comes from a range that, unusually, takes the concept of a quality weighted action into the realm of the shorter keyboard — and offers hands-on knobs and sliders for software control to boot.

Synthesizer, USB audio interface, MIDI controller — Novation's Xiosynth does it all, and at a very reasonable price...

M-Audio's new wireless controller keyboard aims to free you from the restraints of MIDI cables.

Novation's Remote LE range offers a healthy selection of features from their popular Remote controller keyboards at a cut-down price.

Controller keyboards are fitting ever more control facilities into progressively smaller units costing less and less. Is the semi-weighted Axiom 25 M-Audio's best deal yet?

Novation have an elegant solution to the tedium of configuring hardware controllers — the Remote 25SL can read your sequencer and automatically map plug-in instrument parameters to its controls. Is this the first 'intelligent' hardware control surface? We find out...