M AUDIO - Oxygen Pro 61 + Komplete 15 Standard Upgrade

With the M-Audio Oxygen Pro 61, you get frictionless control. This 61-key semi-weighted master keyboard has a responsive feel that's equally at home with jazz chords or beefy bass lines. Its sixteen velocity-sensitive RGB pads act as ideal triggers for your beats, while the faders, pots and transport buttons make it easy to get to grips with the most common DAW software.
The icing on the cake is the Smart Scale mode, which helps you avoid false notes, and the Smart Chord, which lets you enrich your harmonies without needing a PhD in music theory. All with automatic mapping of controls, because fun shouldn't require reading fifty pages of instructions.

Adding to this well-oiled machine is the virtual arsenal of Native Instruments Komplete 15 Standard Upgrade, accessible from your Komplete Select version. Once you've activated the upgrade via Native Access (yes, you'll need a bit of Wi-Fi, but I promise it's not painful), you'll own over 95 instruments and effects, 50 expansion packs and a total of around 50,000 sounds. From Massive X to Kontakt 8, not forgetting Guitar Rig 7 Pro, Abbey Road Drummer and Play Series, it's all here: futuristic textures, vintage sounds, realistic pianos, modular synths, sampled guitars and ethnic percussion. Like presets? You're in for a treat. Prefer to create everything by hand? Well, the possibilities are (almost) frightening. Even those allergic to drop-down menus will be happy to get lost.

The Oxygen Pro 61 + Komplete 15 Standard duo have the good taste to speak the same language thanks to Native Kontrol Standard (NKS) compatibility. In other words, your keyboard and plugins communicate in a fluid dialect, with no abrupt gestures and no loss of translation. The integration is so natural that you'll almost forget you're using two different brands. On stage or in the studio, the M-Audio lives up to its name, with a USB power supply, MIDI DIN output and sustain pedal input. As for the Komplete Upgrade, there's nothing cosmetic about it: it takes your sound library to another dimension. So you can spend less time looking for sounds, and more time procrastinating... but in high resolution.

This pack isn't just about software and hardware. It also offers a complete musical experience, supported by a selection of additional software such as Ableton Live Lite, Hybrid, Velvet and MPC Beats, all supplied with the keyboard. It's a bit like getting a free buffet with the purchase of a toaster: you didn't ask for so much, but you're not going to say no. The set is just as much for composers of music for image as it is for electro producers or lo-fi boom bap enthusiasts who want to create without having to sacrifice an entire shelf to their equipment.