All though I absolutely love the sound kits and software for my Maschine, I have never been able to play the drum pads quite like I can on Akai products

The software is nice for people have no

Be sure to take advantage of all the features and free software/plugins that comes

but the additional software never seemed to work for me

Dynamics and tempo assistOf course, some free software goodies.

You will notice that anything other than 5 star reviews were related to issues due to shipping or downloading free software provided with the keyboard

n’t feel like an acoustic does