Nocturn

...and the following: Axiom (2nd gen), Oxygen 49 (2nd gen), A-800 Pro and many of Novation SL mk2 and Novation Nocturn. My conclusion is that none of these keyboards quite cut it, and it is very clear that the people who designed them don't actually use them, but out of that lot I would recommend...

+1 I actually realised I was making life hard for myself using the Novation Nocturn by not having a std mapping. So I decided on my own standard of knob1 = input - Knob2 = output - Knob3= hi-pass Knob4 = low-pass - Knob5 = ratio - Knob6 = threshold etc etc etc Then I mapped...

Plugins have so many different kinds of layouts, how would you create a hardware surface to suit every plugin? If you accept that the control surface layout won't map to you plugin, there's nothing to stop you hacking together your own control surface. There are even modular MIDI control surfaces, for example: https://intech.studio/discover/ I see the main problem as...