If sci-fi aesthetics are your thing the Komplete Kontrol keyboards are the only keyboard worth owning. Absolutely fantastic look, and perfectly suited to a dimly lit studio atmosphere. Upon boot-up this array of lights goes through a Las Vegas display, pulsating every colour the system allows, blue, red, green, purple, yellow, orange etc, before settling into a subtle blueish hue. Every key on the keyboard has a multiple colour LED situated at the rear of each key. The Komplete Kontrol keyboards sport this crazy feature called ‘Light Guide’. With the various sized Kontrol S-Series keyboards, NI has gone utterly berserk with LED lighting - this thing lights up like the Sydney Harbour Bridge on New Year’s Eve. I honestly thought I’d seen everything there was to see in the world of controller keyboards, but Native Instruments’ Komplete Kontrol controllers have relieved me of that claim. I still have no idea why a simple setup option could not have been put into the KK software or directly in the keyboard to select which type of integration language the user needed "OSC, MCU, MIDI, MAGIC").While Kontrol’s berserk LED Light Guide and ribbon controllers might seem gimmicky, there’s method to the madness behind NI’s first keyboard controller. My guess is that when the MK2 was being conceived there was some conversations between NI and most of the leading DAW manufacturers about OSC and there was maybe a comment from some of them to say they would look at introducing it so the decision was then made and now everyone is waiting for it to be introduced in each DAW but they are probably like "Well we said we would think about it, and we are still thinking". Look at Ableton Live and how long it took to introduce plug-in delay compensation.
Look at the MK2 and wider integration with other daws.
OSC is probably the way forward but these big companies don't like to quickly develop things, but instead leave it on the table for years/decades. Yeah it was more an implied feature that people decided to "ass-u-me" would be included (and kind of kightly so) based on the fact the MK1 had the MCU support which offered reliable integration with pretty much any DAW.
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