Fatar / Studiologic VMK-161-plus

Fatar / Studiologic VMK-161-plus

Features

What drove my selection is a mixture of a quality poised touch with the many MIDI commands. Furthermore, I also liked that you could carry, while retaining their musical possibilities with 61 keys.
In terms of features, it seems quite complete: 8 knobs, 9 sliders, 8 buttons, a wheel of pitch, 3 pedal inputs, and everything is assignable. Feeding classic USB or adapter.
I use it with Live to manage virtual instruments (piano, vintage synth ...), I add effects, samples shipping in concert. I could bricolage again with vintage synthesizers, and touch that looks like a piano ... excellent.


Utilization

The touch is very nice, of course we are far from natural piano touch but, anyway, never achieved any digital keyboard complexity play a piano touch. So it is nice touch, too quick with a quick return, sensitivity and dynamics is present also, just one good use virtual instruments.
The manual is informative but poorly documented. A beginner can MIDI panic.
The MIDI setup a once understood the concept of MIDI, it's easy to use and coupled to a program like Live, is a charm.