One keyboard. Complete studio control.
The award-winning keyboard controller built to unify your studio.
Refined industrial design
Our best-ever playing experience forms the forefront of Kontrol’s industrial design and build.
Immersive connection
Unparalleled software integration with 1000s of virtual instruments from NI and developers like Arturia, Heavyocity, Korg, Output, Spitfire, and u-he.
Advanced keys
An industry-leading keybed from Fatar with polyphonic aftertouch as standard. Get 49 or 61 semi-weighted keys, or 88 hammer-action keys.
Mod controls
Metal-touch pitch and modulation wheels with central illumination.
DAW control
Seamless integration with all major DAWs.
High-res screen
Full-color glass display for intuitive browsing, tweaking, and mixing.
Light Guide
Stay in key with a redesigned Light Guide that pinpoints notes with a light above each key.
Connections
USB, MIDI, and bus-powered USB-C, plus four assignable pedal inputs including a default sustain and default expression.
Touch strip
Add expression to your performance with an intuitive touch strip.
Anodized aluminum encoders
Precision tweaking for all your sounds, pre-mapped to key instrument and effect parameters.
Hands-on control
Browse and tweak everything from synths and drums to orchestral libraries, scoring tools, effects and sounds directly on your keyboard.
Control any plugin
Kontrol gets you hands-on with every plugin in your session. Everything is automapped, ready to go, so you can play and tweak any instrument or effect, navigate parameters, and shape your sound in your DAW, directly from your keyboard – no mouse required.
Control any hardware
Play your other hardware – straight from the keyboard. As the centre of your studio, Kontrol lets you directly connect and control synths, drum machines, and other MIDI devices. Customize your setup just how you need it with MIDI templates and USB/DIN MIDI routing. Even better, you can now use the Play Assist tools like arpeggiator, note repeat, scale, and chord mode with any connected gear
Thousands of instruments made real
Find exactly what you’re looking for with a huge choice of integrated instruments, way beyond the NI ecosystem. NKS (Native Kontrol Standard) is our technical standard for virtual instruments and effects used across the industry. It makes even the most complex instrument playable right away with no guesswork or setup hassle. Everything is familiar with a consistent visual display and parameter mapping – so you always know where you are, no matter what you’re playing.
Deeper into your DAW
Keep your eyes on your keyboard and away from your computer screen. Kontrol lets you navigate your entire DAW session directly from the keys, with precise control over plugin chains, mixer views, transport controls, and parameter adjustments. See your DAW's track colors on the display while tempo sync keeps everything locked. And custom macros let you create your own workflows for effects chains and instrument switching, so you can record, mix, and edit without reaching for your mouse or breaking your flow.
Compatible with Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Bitwig Studio, and Digital Performer.
Compatible with Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Bitwig Studio, and Digital Performer.
Introducing polyphonic aftertouch
Take expression one step further with the slightest pressure on individual keys. Bring new layers of nuance to your playing with cutoff, pitch, vibrato, and much more, without reaching for an extra encoder or dial.
All three models come complete with polyphonic aftertouch on an industry-leading keybed developed in collaboration with Fatar. Plus, the S88 is the world’s first widely available controller keyboard to combine polyphonic aftertouch with weighted, hammer-action keys.
All three models come complete with polyphonic aftertouch on an industry-leading keybed developed in collaboration with Fatar. Plus, the S88 is the world’s first widely available controller keyboard to combine polyphonic aftertouch with weighted, hammer-action keys.
Let Play Assist guide you
Find new ways to perform and compose with both software instruments and external hardware. Play Assist features keep you in key, lock melodies to your chosen scales, transform single notes into full chords, and create evolving rhythmic patterns. Plus, with the intelligent Light Guide, you’ll see switches, key zones, and scales lit up in front of you.
Accessibility
From composition tools that announce scales and chords to deep DAW integration, Kontrol makes both software and external hardware accessible for visually impaired and blind users. Explore everything with audio descriptions for each control, control external hardware synths through custom MIDI templates with speech feedback, and use any plugin with automatic parameter mapping and voice announcements. Learn more.
Award-winning
Don’t just take our word for it. Kontrol took home both the MIDI Innovation Award Winner for groundbreaking advancements in MIDI technology and the Sound and Sound Award for Gear of the Year.
Keys that fit you
Choose between 49 or 61 semi-weighted keys with the S49 and S61, or get a full piano feel with 88 hammer-action weighted keys on the S88.
Highly visual
See switches, key zones, scales, and more lit up in front of you with the intelligent Light Guide. Chord Mode lets you create a progression by playing single keys, while Easy Mode maps the white keys to whichever scale you need.
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Built to last
All three models are built from the same premium materials with a large glass screen, touch-sensitive anodised aluminum encoders and modwheels, and redesigned tactile buttons.
Included software
You’ll be ready to go from day one with a load of sought-after virtual instruments and effects, plus post-production tools to finish your final tracks.
The package includes Komplete 15 Select, Komplete Kontrol, and a voucher for any NI Kontakt instrument of your choice. Plus get iZotope Elements Suite, Ableton Live Lite, Hypha, Guitar Rig 7 LE, and more.
Discover included software
The package includes Komplete 15 Select, Komplete Kontrol, and a voucher for any NI Kontakt instrument of your choice. Plus get iZotope Elements Suite, Ableton Live Lite, Hypha, Guitar Rig 7 LE, and more.
Discover included software
Get inspired
See how producers and composers are using Kontrol to transform their creative process.
Scoring with Simon Franglen
Avatar composer Simon Franglen runs through his favorite Kontrol features for film scoring including layering, sound manipulation, mapping, keybed quality, and much more.
“The new NI Kontrol keyboards have been great! They make navigating and getting to sounds quicker than ever, which helps creativity flow faster. Nice one NI!!”
Noah Goldstein
Producer/Engineer (Rosalia, Ye, Frank Ocean)
“I rebuilt an extremely complex and large orchestral template around the new Kontrol S88. Now, navigating through any track in the session, I can instantly see a unique, comprehensive and customisable control set for each plugin in focus. It’s truly a revelation making workflow fast, dynamic and inspirational."
Pete Boxsta Martin
Producer/Engineer (James Arthur, Jessie, Dope Saint Jude, The Batman, Empire of Light)
“The most advanced and expressive MIDI keyboard controller I have ever had the chance to use. The hardware integration with my system is absolutely spot on. The new keyboard with aftertouch is a complete game changer, adding a more lifelike feel and making the sound incredibly realistic.”
Robert Dudzic
Sound Designer
Terms & conditions
The included software is provided as download after hardware registration. Once installed, all products can be used offline. The offer requires a qualifying base product to remain registered to your account. Should the base product no longer be registered, additional costs may apply.
The included software is provided as download after hardware registration. Once installed, all products can be used offline. The offer requires a qualifying base product to remain registered to your account. Should the base product no longer be registered, additional costs may apply.
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