The Monome seems like a well made, well thought out midi controller if you only want buttons and if the planets align and they actually have one in stock for more than 500 milliseconds.The knobs are too close together, not enough, dont light up, poor qualitym, etc
The faders are toys, dont light up, too short, fat, long, etc.
The box doesnt respond to X, Y, Z the way I want.
No keyboard. Has keyboard.
Doesnt make waffles and overall fails to help me achieve self-actualization...
The Lemure seems neat but way too expensive and lets face it, a touch screen is useful from a flexibility standpoint but real knobs/sliders/keys are more fun.
The Faderfox boxes seem ok until you realize they use old MIDI connectors over USB and require batteries or a power cord.
The Nocturn seems ok but dreadfully short on controls and perhaps build quality.
When is a company going to produce a well thought out and high quality MIDI controller or set of MIDI controllers?
I would pay top dollar for a top of the line MIDI controller. At this point I would be satisfied with a Monome button box, knob box, and fader box.
If Ableton released high quality boxes for their various instruments I would buy them in a heartbeat. I would pay 499 just for a dedicated hardware interface to Operator...
