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I am not sure what MIDI keyboard to buy that is confirmed to work properly with Kontakt as I use it a lot in my productions. Any advice would be really helpful from anyone that has a keyboard (49+ keys) they like and use with kontakt without issues. Thanks!

Why:
I recently bought the M-Audio Keystation 61ES because it was on sale and I wanted a new MIDI keyboard w/more keys on it. My issue with this keyboard is that for NI Kontakt libraries, the velocity curve on the keyboard is all screwie. I can never get any instruments (eg/Berlin Grand, Studio Drummer) within Kontakt 5 to hit full velocity w/o slamming the keys as hard as I can. If I mouse click the little keyboard on the vst itself it hits full velocity...but goes nowhere close to that when I hit the keys on the keyboard. I think the velocity range is 1-127, if I slam any given key as hard as I can it hits around 80-90 max. I looked online and found others to have this problem with no real solution since the 61ES does not have any velocity curve options on the hardware itself. This velocity problem only persists within NI Kontakt. The only option I have is using the Script editor in Kontakt and editing the velocity curve but doing that for every instrument just seems like a chore.

What DAW do you use?

Oh yeah should have mentioned that. FL Studio 10

Options -> MIDI setting (or just hit F10) -> thebn click on the curve for velocity -> and level off the top.

3za wrote:Options -> MIDI setting (or just hit F10) -> thebn click on the curve for velocity -> and level off the top.

Thanks 3za, good tip! Didn't realize that option was there! I guess I will play around with different curve shapes on there and see if I can get anything that doesn't sound like a toddler hammering on a toy keyboard out of this thing.