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Message: [QUOTE="maze, post: 195011, member: 10439"] I had the original Keylab 61 and basically it was a nightmare. Although the concept of a quality high end live performance controller was a great one and it seemed solid with those (faux) wood ends... the build quality and the keybed was just awful. I had to have the keyboard replaced twice, the first for the faders not working, the second time the keys were popping up, so that their restring place was higher than normal and the other keys. And then there was just ridiculous implementation...after touch was unusable, silly things like the leds on the buttons only going on when pushed and going out when released,,,which sure makes sense when in momentary mode, but NOT in toggle mode, where they should have stayed on when pressed and gone out when pressed again. I was hoping they would up their game with this next iteration and maybe they have to some degree... I have not played one to say either way. But I was immediately not interested as soon as I saw the layout with the faders and rotary encoders and buttons all the way over on the right... that may work for home recordist controlling a DAW, but not live stage work...and as also mentioned above, the faders are way too spread out to be effective for B3 drawbar usage. Also an unfortunate carryover from the original has the octave buttons right above the mod and pitch wheels where they are easily hit accidentally when using the wheels. [/QUOTE]