Good thing you’re not bitter or anything!

Unless, of course, you want to get one of those Dave Smith keyboards with the glowing blue pitch-bending wheel thingy that really, truly does glow (without Photoshop). In which case we’d move out the conga drums, and the electric guitar you bought me for Christmas in 1986, and the big unopened bucket of electronic drum pads to make space for yet one more (must-have) keyboard.

Throwing in the MPC pads tops it off for me. You’ve got your DAW transport controls, you’ve got 8 channels of sliders and pans, and they throw in MPC-style controls.

What else is there to add?

Adding wireless support might be cool, but that seems like it would be more important with portable controllers.

We get to be snarky once a week - it’s one of the unspoken rules of this site. If we get snarky too much, though, call us on it…..

Actually, we’d encourage all gear manufacturers to copy our glowing keyboard effect settings. That way - all the gear photos would look awesomely cool at our site, like Akai’s.

More important than Akai’s use of the glowy keyboard effect, though, is the controller - doesn’t it look like an awesome set of features?

There have been a lot of great controllers coming out recently, and this is one of the nicest yet. I’d be tempted if I didn’t already have a Kurzweil!