When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's a strange quirk of the computer music hardware market that when a 'generic' MIDI controller ...

The best MIDI pad controllers are now some of the most important devices in music production and performance, acting as the tactile interface between you and your studio software and hardware, and ...

Since it first caught the world's attention at NAMM '09, Native Instruments' Maschine has made quite a stir in the world of electronic music production and performance. A modern re-imagining of Akai's ...

Though MIDI controllers are generally used for digital music making, the automat from dadamachines offers laptop or smartphone tunesmiths the opportunity to create something distinctly analog. A ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. First things first: not all keyboards are MIDI ...

Canadian-based DJ tech purveyor Smithson Martin is getting in on the touchscreen craze in a way all its own. Applying touchscreen-ready MIDI controller software to multi-touch displays, SM has ...

The Komplete Kontrol A-series from Native Instruments is here to do work. The lineup features three keyboard MIDI-controllers that aren’t very pretty, but manage to give producers everything they need ...

For hardware synth and drum machine enthusiasts, there are two controllers that stand above most of the competition: Arturia’s KeyStep and BeatStep Pro. Their combination of USB, MIDI and control ...

The most functional MIDI controllers usually take the form of mixers – the Novation Launch Control XL has been a fine example of this since 2014, and for 2025 we have the Launch Control XL 3. The core ...

[shantea] builds MIDI controllers, and after a successful first endeavor with a matrix of buttons and knobs, he decided to branch out to something a little bit cooler. It’s called Ceylon, and it’s ...