Hi, Have a question if you can tell me about it.. I bought a lot of Midi Keyboards, All of them have the same problem, it is the Clicking Noise. It annoys me a lot. So what about this you bought. Can you hear the noise or it is better. and thank you.
@@7TH-JUNE Great question. Clicking from the keys or buttons? All of the buttons are soft. The pads are velocity sensitive so do not click. The buttons do have a positive press but no audible click. The keys do not click unless you push them heavily to the side to hit each other (this would not be the normal way to play!). They are virtually silent. Can I ask with other keyboards create that clicking noise? I've used quite a few so might be able to help.
I purchased the FLkey 49 this morning because of this review. You should set up an affiliate link - I’d be so happy to support you in any way, your videos are always so helpful!!
Some FAQ's based on lots of comments I received last time! Please do ask me about them or any of the features. Q - Does this work with other DAWs? A - Yes, but it's not going to have the same function in other DAWs (The step sequencer is unique to FL Studio for instance) Q - Are the keys weighted? A - Yes, semi weighted. This means they have a responsive feel. Q - Is the screen big enough? A - For most people, yes! Honestly I don't use the screen when producing or arranging, only for checking which channel I have selected on the mixer or channel rack. I hear some people asking for a dedicated screen such as an iPad to be built into the hardware to controlFL Studio. This would be neat but much more expensive. Maybe someone is working on something like that! Q - Is the included software any good? A - Yes. The 6 month trial of FL Studio Producer Edition is fully featured. The XLN Addictive Keys Piano is phenomenal and the Klevgrand effects are brilliant, especially the reverb. The Labs Strings are equally brilliant but are available without purchasing the keyboard.
Imagine a touch screen ui with drag and drop for sample effects and instruments. With touch mixer, channel and bus routing. It'd be so much fun to be able to mix like that. Particularly if we could control instruments and effects without having to switch windows. Brings to my mind watching Lee Perry at the controls. Dreamy
Question for you: How well do these work with VST's within FL studio? If you have Sytrus, Harmless, Harmor, etc. do things such as modulation and pitch bend sync up really quick (and if you have anything such as Vital or Pigments, what's your experience with those)?
@@subramaniamchandrasekar1397 The pads and faders can be linked manually yes. I haven’t tried the transport controls but I don’t see why they couldn’t be linked with the right script?
@@TOEC good question. Pitch and mod link up every time and the pots and faders sync to key parameters. I personally like to put the pots into custom mode and link my macros to them in synths like Vital.
I'm really impressed at the price point for these keyboards. I have the FL37 and I think it was worth every penny. The build quality is just PERFECTTTTT
been thinking about buying the 37 since a long time and im glad i delayed it, the 49 looks amazing. thank you for this update, would've missed it if you didn't upload this lol.
I think the clone Pattern feature is really a game changer. So nice that they implemented that for the FL Key 37. Simple but so convenient. Great Video. Thanks.
Finally someone have the same problem I have!! LOL! I tried under the desk and on the side and in front of me keyboard I always go back to front because under the desk is so annoying yet it saves a lot of space and on the side is far away. Quite an unsolved dilemma. What a great review. You rock.
That is awesome 👏. I've been holding out to get one of these. I was almost going to buy the mini 25 soon. I had no idea FL was coming out with more keys and features. Now I want that 49 key lol.
I would love to see a built-in pan filter resonance Eq and reverb like on the Akai Fire (which should have a reverb knob too). A LED section/ visual screen for EQ-ing and filtering sounds. A delay and distortion knob would be nice too. Make it just a little more hands on.
Michael, your videos are always so helpful and have taught me so much about FL Studio. I think its time to upgrade from my AKAI MPK Mini to the 61 key. Thanks for this great review!!
I’m going back to FL studio because of this new amazing invention for FL studio. I stop using FL studio for some years now simply because I mastered the program and there wasn’t a seamless integration like this. Now that this is something that’s accessible and hopefully for a reasonable price like I said at the very beginning of this comment I am going back I’m going right back to FL studio. I kind of lied OK, I’ll admit I’ve kept my eyes on FL studio I like the upgrades I love the new plug-ins I’ve had my eyes on it and I’ve dabbled just to keep myself familiarized with FL studio now that this keyboard is available for seamless integration again, I’m going back to FL studio. Thank you so much image line I really really do appreciate it.
I started using FL at I think what was version 3. Finally a decent manufacturer taking FLs users seriously. I always found integration with hardware such a fraught effort and outcome. To the point I basically ditched it
This is the first review video I found where the person would still consider 37 to be good enough over longer sized ones. It definitely seems to make a good fit on a desk that's about only as wide as the 49 keys one. Thanks for a calm and nice review. I saw many people saying that 37 might not be enough if you want to make melodic music, so now I need to find out if music I like and want to eventually make is melodic enough.
Nice board! Visually looks almost the same as Launchkey mk3 series - with the same controllers layout, but perfectly integrated with FL. As a user of both Ableton Live (for live performance - already having mentioned Novation Launchkey 61) and FL Studio (as a studio DAW) now I'm thinking about having one of these guys (probably 49 with the faders) :)
Still the best channel about everything regarding Fl and gears and what not , I have been following your channel from day one I remember asking you if I could get a producer certificate through you 😅tho it’s was in my different RU-vid account which was deleted.. anyways always good to hear and I’m glad that you’re channel is the most educative channel so far as producers are looking up to !! Cheers 🥂
@@inthemixHere in Asia mainly clients always like to know if the (producer)goes for certification courses or not so Certificate or Certified professional is something which is there in the minds of the people, you know even if producer’s are experts without certificate likes even diploma certificates it really counts .to open up even a Small Music studio for dubbing voice over etc .. Certified professional really matters here in our parts of our world.
I actually ordered one as soon as I heard of this release, and flocked to your channel to see if you had posted a review. I was so excited to try it. Unfortunately ever since I received it, I've had nothing but problems. Writing this to help caution other potential buyers. It makes my FL Studio software lag (when I unplug it, it goes back to normal). Some of my projects almost crashed and were ruined because of this. The additional Addictive Keys plugin selection is not available to you if you've already registered a previous Focusrite product. This was extremely disappointing as one of the reasons I bought it was to get another Addictive Keys product. The customer service has been quite slow, even when selecting "Urgent" as a priority. Even after installing all updates to drivers and FL Studio software, i was experiencing the same situation. The product, as advertised, also did not automatically speak to FL Studio. It took me hours, literally, to figure it out because since it's so new, there are no turorials available addressing hardware and software issues. I'm not writing this to shame on the company, I have quite a few Focusrite products. Great stuff. But this FL Key 61, has been quite a fail if anyone asks me. I hope people will see this and consider this info before purchasing because I'd hate to see other producers get all excited to try it just to ultimately have their FL Studio crash and ruin their projects. Also, it's been about a week since I orderd, and they haven't even charged my card yet, really shows how urgent they are on wanting their money.
I used to have a Novation SL 49 mkII keyboard, then decided to try FLkey 37 as soon as they launched it. However, in practice 3 octaves feel a little bit cut...in comoarison with 4. And now I ordered FLkey 61) and waiting for it's delivery. Yeah, I know it will take much more space on the table and mught cause some storage issues, but 5 octaves...I guess they are worth it!
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Thanks man. I learn so much from your videos.. You really do a great job putting all of them together and jamming so much information in each episode. Also I appreciate how articulate you are with your explanations and wording to make sure all viewers understand. Thanks man. Keep up the quality work! P. S. I'm sitting here waiting for my fl37 key to arrive now. So ready to try it out. Take care!
Behringer Motor 49 / 61 have motorised faders (controlers) but it doesn't integrate so easily as the Novation FLkey. Love your presentation in your videos.
I'm tempted with going down to 49 keys from my Nektar GX61. I'm not even that good a piano player but have always felt it's nice to have the extra reach so to speak.
It works really well with FL studio, however only for fl studio, if you are using other DAWs and when using non-fl based vsts it does the same thing like other midi keys@@RubyOnyxx
For me the ergonomics is an issue with keyboards, on the desk is clumsy, on the side you can't see your screen (not much use for that kind of controller). I never tried under, maybe that would do the trick.
Yes they do, I've already tried this in the custom mode. You will likely have to make your own midi connections though. I'm sure you are familiar with this process but if you need help just ask!
For choosing parameters on a synth or editing samples and audio, a mouse is indispensable. The Korg Taktile has an XY pad and 2 buttons below that can either work as a controller, or a mouse. Maybe one day this type of pad will be added to these new keys...
Yo thats what I was thinking. I was looking at the Akai fire bought a used then it stop working correctly. But what I noticed you had more control for the transport. You can browse sounds on the Fire
Motorised faders - the Behringer Motor keyboards have/had them but integration with FLS is nowhere near as complete as with the FLkey Controllers (though the fader control and banking is pretty sweet)
I need Novation to build a mixer-focused board. No keyboard, no pads. I'm talking about a board that deals with just maybe 12 mixer tracks. Transport and looping controls off to the side (maybe a couple of free spinning knobs to set the start/end of the loop region?), play, pause, loop play. The whole board would start with 12 volume faders for 12 mixer tracks. Panning knobs underneath, which could also click by pressing down to change them between panning and stereo sep. A mute/solo button for each as well. Most importantly, 3-6 knobs per track with buttons to scroll through maybe 8 frames, to be assigned by the user to parameters on mixer effects. Preferably knobs which also click when you press them to switch between 0%, 100% and then the knob position, or maybe each knob would have its own color coded frames which could be cycled through by clicking. I would buy this instantly.
That looks pretty awesome! I've currently got an Arturia Keylab Mk2 (I think I've seen you use one of those also in the past). Do you have any strong opinions on what would be more valuable, the Analog Lab/V-Collection control the KeyLab offers vs the DAW control the FL Key provides? I normally make use of IL Remote which gives decent enough control of the main functions (though it's not as good as the FL Key looks in that regard) so am on the fence about upgrading! Also just a quick note to say thanks again for continuing provide awesome content!
Thanks for the kind words and comment. When Analog Lab was released, I really thought it was special. However, I haven't touched it in years as there are just so many better synths out there which gave me far more control. The DAW control is what sold me on FLkey. I ultimately sold my Arturia and haven't looked back. I think having the DAW synced up has been such a workflow boost for me. It's hard to quantify it but I just enjoy programming drums and making adjustments to plugins with the controller and ultimately I make music/record/ produce/mix for the love of it alongside the results.
@@inthemix It's a tricky decision indeed! Not helped by the apparently improved DAW control in the mk3 Keylab Essential (which I'm a bit doubtful about to be honest), also with a new version of IL Remote in development. I can definitely see the benefit of more hands on control (IL Remote certainly helps a bit in this regard, but is relatively limited and pretty clunky to configure). I really wish it was the norm to have music shops stock a wide variety of MIDI controllers that you can try before you buy like you can with so many instruments! Also, just spotted the score log button. That's a super useful thing to have at a button press! Definitely leaning toward the FLKey at this point though. Thanks again for the info!
I wondered if the faders are used for sth else than the FL mixer, cause then I think I can stick with doing it per mouse. Also I'm not really trained at the keys but I feel limited by 2 Octaves. So does 3 octaves make a huge difference, or are 4 more likely to be the next step? I always thought about the FL Keys since I'm dedicated to FL Studio fs but just wondered, if I maybe got hype trained about the faders. But considering the difference in octaves I'm not quite sure. I hope this question makes sense.
More than likely the faders can be routed to something else (haven't used any of the FL Keys so I can't say for sure). Usually you can right click a parameter and "link to controller" then move the faders and it correlate to that parameter. Personally, I'd like more than 2 octaves just because (as Michael said) I'm mainly a classical pianist so I tend to (without thinking sometimes) just place my both hands on the keyboard to play a bassline on my left (or chords) and the melody on my right. I also like to do improvs and fills on the higher notes while I'm playing, so only having 2 octaves might ruin my workflow a bit. So for someone like that, then the 61 or 49 is best. But if you're just using it to get some melody ideas or place down chords, and not playing around too much, the 37 and mini might just work
I still use the FL Keys midi 25. I love it. I also search for free plugins. I wish there was a script that well I'm gonna do my best to explain. Certain plugins like ripchord, and Chordz you have to connect the with another working plugin to get them to produce sound. I'm wondering if there is a script that can be written so Chordz and ripchord won't have to be plugin to another plugin to produce sound? I'd like to be able to use Chordz and have it produce a sound. Chordz and ripchord are free plugins. I love the Chordz plugin because you can make presets. It would be cool to have it make a piano sound on it's own.
Oh yes! I literally remember telling someone at FL...That if they made a bigger keyboard, I'd definately buy one. Not a fan of the small ones TBH...Hehe time to save up :)
I have an Akai MPK 249 and I do love it however I'm thinking about getting the FLkey 49 just for the intergration alone. It also helps that the price is just a little over $200.00.
I have the MPK49 and its still functional after all these years, but I feel like I had to do some setup just to get it to integrate it to FL Studio. Whenever that kicks the bucket, I'm definitely getting the 61 key version of this.
Honestly might consider the 61 key. Been looking for a keyboard since I haven't had one in ages and I want to get back into piano and have one at my disposal for production as I play around more with that. I'm not in desperate need of a high end workstation that is thousands I can't afford yet, so this sits at a good price point to get me back into the music world. Not sure how I feel about semi-weighted keys yet, as I'm used to physical grands, but even if I dislike it, I'm sure I can suffer through until I can afford something with actually realistic weighted keys XD I know I hate those keyboards without any real weight @-@ they feel like I'm playing with a toy.
I wish I hadn't bought my AKAI MPK 49 now. I've invested so much time in mapping the parameters I don't want to switch to FL Keys even though it's a better fit. Great controller though.
Just received my FLkey 61 a couple of weeks ago.... I can't play it very well, still a rookie teaching myself (drummer of 47 yrs) but enjoying it nonetheless!
Hey Michael, I have a very cheeky question since you so politely mentioned if anybody had any questions about these keyboards, to ask you.. Well nothing ventured, nothing gained - would you send one of them, either the 49key or the 61key here to me, yep, for free 😅 I’ve just gotten onto fl21 after using ableton for years and I’m really loving it. If you send that I’ll give away a bunch of midi controllers as well, you and I just spreading the love around like herpes. If this is a no well I totally get that and thanks for reading and keep up the good work!
Amazing! But Is there a Button to switch between pattern/Song Mode? And also are there buttons for a Playlist transport for time scrolling like fast forward or so?
I'm sold. I've been very happy with my Arturia 88 and MiniLab, but they're not optimised for FL Studio. The only issue is that everywhere I look online the 49 and 61 key editions are pre-orders only, even on the Novation website. Have they not been officially released yet?
Hey there, love your channel. Ive learned alot ever since. I bought the novation 61 in January and ive been using it. On fl studio it registers as mk3 and fl keys. Do i have to program it as fl keys to fully use the functionalities? Or can i continue use it under mk3? Thanks so much.
Hello Michael! Nice review! Speaking of midi controllers and faders, I couldn't resist asking if you know/have tried the Icon QCon Pro X DAW Control Surface on FL STudio. I know this is off topic but it would be great if you could offer some opinion on this.🙂
I’m having issues with the faders and getting the buttons to work like the up and down to choose a different preset. Do you have to map it manually or does it automatically?
hi there 😁 i have the original launchkey 49 and have massive trouble trying to get the pads to work with Fpc drums etc, any tips to get it working like the FL version?
Yes, in the drop down menu on the fpc you can select “map notes for entire bank” and then press the pads 1 to 16 or 1 to 8. Its not perfect but it does link them.
