The pressure sensitive trigger pads are a bit small for my taste but they still work very well, and not to mention you get 16 instead of the 8 on M-Audio

I've been a percussionist since middle school, so I was stoked on having velocity-sensitive pads for serious jam drumming, but the sensitivity is so hit-or-miss and inaccurate that it's not even worth setting up for each new project

Luckily I didn't buy the keyboard intending to use those pads as my $99 Akai MPK Mini's pads blow everything else out of the water

Not worth the price at all if the pads are important to you.

These are worse pads than the first generation of Korg nano-pads, which were abysmal

The pads still work for midi input on older versions of Ableton, but for In-Control features that improve your workflow in Ableton you'll need 9.2 or higher.

Works great with Logic, and has great pad and key response

The pads actually even feel pretty decent; stiff but responsive

The key's and pads do take some breaking in, to get used to/ (Mostly just the pads though, they are ridiculously hard to press all the way in, but they again I would rather have

The pads actually even feel pretty decent; stiff but responsive

When paired with Abelton Live, it makes recording a breeze...intuitive faders, pads and record buttons make it really easy to use

The faders are nice and comfortable in my hands as well as the pads

The pads are rock solid so you would have to take something besides your hands to break them

The one absolutely disgustingly bad thing about this keyboard and the reason it's docked a star for the $249 price point, are the "16 velocity-sensitive RGB pads"

The keys feel nice and the pads, faders and knobs offer a full integration with Ableton live (That also comes bundled on its lite version).There's almost no latency, or just as expected with any midi controller.

Keys feel nice, sliders & knobs are responsive, and the pads seem decent (don't use them much)

However they are terrible as velocity sensitive pads and if used for midi will register anything below a seismic finger jab only 50% of the time

The pitch and mod wheels are super nice feeling as well as the drum pads

the pads are terrible.

Short of buying a separate pad controller, Launchkey 49 offered enough pads to explore all these possibilities.

The only downside is the pads, you gotta hit them kinda

Technically speaking, the pads are velocity sensitive, but instead of a full range of "very soft" to "very loud" (as I have with my Maschine Mikro), it's only possible to play them from "moderate" to "loud" if you're comfortable with note dropouts, or from "loud" to "loud" (virtually no dynamic range) if you aren't comfortable with notes that fail to register

However they are terrible as velocity sensitive pads and if used for midi will register anything below a seismic finger jab only 50% of the time

keys are great, pads are a bit lack luster - totally worth the purchase

The M-Audio Oxygen 49 newest generation IV has 8 velocity sensitive trigger pads and this Novation Launchkey 49 has 16 that are also assignable and usable for different purposes

Works as i expected

Novation support had long hold times, and the support agent that helped me was both rude and condescending to me as I was polite to him while trying to solve my issues

No midi tru or midi out puts buy other than that its great as a