Super Produkt.

I love this controller! Those motorized faders are the bomb! It works great with Ableton Live! I have not checked it out with Cakewalk by Bandlab yet!

I think bang for your bug ,this is hands down the best DAW keyboard you can buy.I originally was looking to buy a motorized mixing board and accidentally stumbled on this. Faders are amazing, keyboard is decent, and you also get pads for this to either set up drums or trigger loops. I just wish there were more videos on set up. They currently have a video from their website setting it up in cubase from a mac.....I hope they show a setup for us PC guys.I'd give it 5 stars but I find the manual and set up info is a bit difficult. Thankfully the unit is usable right out of the box with its default settings.however if you run into problems you may be stuck figuring it out on your own, and one more fault is the plug in the back is L shaped and I find gets in the way of the on off switch.... those are my only issue. Other than that...very solid for what you payed for.

The build quality of this controller was decent and it has a LOT of features for the money which could make it a good value. If you are looking for a great out of the box experience like you get with the Arturia, Akai, etc.. mini controllers, this is NOT the product for you. Behringer supposedly includes a light DAW package with this product, however there is no key to be found in the box to register, and to get one, you must register the product and then wait DAYS for an email. If you are a newbie planning to start hammering keys on day 1, think again. Unlike most manufacturer funded DAW throw-ins, you need to manually map each and every key, slider, etc.. on the device rather than having a profile created for the solution that comes with the controller...This probably has a lot of merit for someone who has the time and experience to tinker around that isn't using the lite software with a kit like this... but the out of box experience for the average user is terrible. I was up and running, making sounds in various synth simulators with custom mappings for my controller with the Arturia MiniLab MK II in about 10 minutes. After 3 days of dinking around I hadn't played a note on the Behringer, and it had crashed out of the DAW software numerous times. Mine ended up going back as I suspect it actually has a hardware issue, but the fact that it's effectively unusable without external software out of the box is a stupid play by Behringer. I really like a lot of their products, but I can see why this series is being discontinued, they just didn't think through the "out of box" experience for a buyer and the other companies serving this market have it nailed, so theirs is a outlier in the worst way. Hopefully they can do something better and more user-friendly in their next mini controller product.

I found it very easy to use. The keys feel great! If you set it up in your DAW using the right portals it works great.

Below is my in depth review of the Motor 49. After I wrote the review about two weeks later I returned the keyboard. The white / black key velocity mismatch problem was just bugging me so within the 30 day period I shipped it back. But it annoyed me because there were so many things that were cool about the Motor 49. So last month I bought it again and guess what? No keyboard issue, I got a good one! The black and white keys output the same velocity. I updated it to the last firmware and the sustain pedal works as a sustain pedal in Mackie mode. I want to use Mackie mode for mixing but I usually leave it off and the Motor49 operates in Midi mode where I have a total of 32 faders and 32 encoders. And I have them mapped to various soft synths for sound design and on the fly parameter modulation while laying down Midi tracks. Everything gets recorded in Reaper (my DAW) and I've even used the basic Arpeggiator a couple of times. The keyboard is complex and there is no plug and play or profiles for the DAW of your choice. Everything is old school programmable but I find it not that hard to set up. And once it's time to mix I exit Reaper, switch the Motor 49 to Mackie mode and reload Reaper and the Motor 49 is a flying fader mixing desk. Once I got past my preconceptions of what this board should be and lived with what it can be my relationship with it got a whole lot better. For example I have a separate drum pad so I reprogrammed the pads to be 32 buttons that control functions inside Reaper via MIDI CC while in Mackie mode. But I had to do it. It wasn't done for me.Would I recommend this controller? Depends who you are. If you are prepared to roll your own setup then absolutely. If you want plug and play then this is not for you.{Original Review}Like everybody else I've been waiting for this keyboard to appear since 2014. I'm an amateur composer creating various types of electronica. I use Reaper as my DAW and I have very few pieces of music equipment due to the tiny space that I can dedicate to my passion. I am not a pro in any way shape or form and when the Motor series was announced it appeared to be perfect for my needs. I don't know how but Behringer screwed it up badly. I don't know what kind of engineer did the firmware on this but they clearly didn't actually use it. So firstly the physical problems. The Pitchbend wheel looks very pretty but it's actually painted with gloss paint and that coupled with a stiff centering spring make it almost unusable. I may go inside and fit a lighter spring that would help. The keybed has a slight velocity mismatch (about 20%) between the white keys and the black keys. I've updated to the latest firmware and it's bearable but ????. There are no buttons dedicated to functions like select/arm/solo/mute like there are on most MIDI controllers. Other than that the keyboard is built well and the flying faders do work well. On to the STUPID firmware. I don't know why Behringer didn't correct the following because it must have cost them millions to develop the Motor series. Mackie Control Universal works at the most basic level. Bank select works and switches between groups of eight tracks. The faders track the Reaper channels and the encoders work as pans. The transport controls work as expected but that's it. As I said, no Select/Arm/Solo/Mute which is a bit of a basic necessity. There's no way to switch MCU functions on the 6 repurposed buttons that are MIDI bank select buttons in MIDI mode. It's unfortunate that the resting color of the drumpads cannot be changed and is a default dim white. The whole fuctionality of the RGB LEDs is of no use. However the sustain pedal issue has been corrected and works correctly in MCU mode. I don't find programming the keyboard to be that difficult but it would be great if there had been an editor. The pads can be programmed to send CC instead of notes so you can use them to send basic commands. OSC has been a thing for years now and it would have cost Behringer virtually nothing to implement it in fact Behringer could have done so much with this keyboard because memory costs virtually nothing today. One of the cool things I like is the switch between MC and MIDI mode because in MIDI mode you have 8x4 encoders and 8x4 faders that are remembered independently from the MC parameters. This means that you can use the MIDI parameters on synths and such, hit the MC button and then the faders and encoders instantly go back to the DAW mixer positions. I don't know of another keyboard that does this because no other keyboard other than CME has flying faders and CME don't have the best of reputations. Unfortunately failed potential is a theme that seems to run through this keyboard. It could have been so great if Behringer had invested a bit more in the software and consulted with the people who were the target market for this board. I thought long and hard about returning it but in the end I decided not to. If I'd paid full price for it I'd have slapped a return label on it, but for $150 and flying faders and it's a cool looking board it's a keeper. Just be aware that it's highly unlikely that Behringer will update it further. Although the Motor series is still on their website I get the feeling they are done with it.Update. Some observations on the velocity sensing of the keyboard. Firstly Behringer appear to have implemented a piano model for velocity rather than an organ model. I checked on my Axiom 49/2 keyboard and the lowest level that the Axiom puts out is around 25. It doesn't matter how softly you move a key it will not output a zero value. The Behringer on the other hand will output down to zero. Kinda like a piano key. If you press a piano key really softly then no note will sound. The Behringer does the same. There is no minimum value. Now obviously you can turn off velovity sensing and you can set an amplitude value that will always be the same no matter how you play the key. Much like an organ. Also there's a mismatch between the white keys and the black keys on my Axiom as well, I just never noticed it. I think it's because both the white keys and the blacks share the same velocity sensor and obviously the two keys share different input velocities because the lever moments (the length of the keys) are different. I suspect I'm a crap player and I'm not sensitive enough to notice it or alternatly I adjusted my playing style subconciously to adapt. I use this keyboard to input phrases and runs into Reaper to give my work an analog/human touch. I don't perform with this keyboard. If I was performing I'd be using an 88 note hammer action Yamaha controller for ten times the price.

Oh, so much wrong with this keyboard. I got it for the semi-weighted keys, and aftertouch. I figured if it had those features, it had to be a quality item. I was so disappointed. All the features I need like MIDI channel change, and transpose are buried deep within a poorly executed menu system. I can only get faders to output on MIDI channel 1, and I expect those to follow the same channel the keyboard is set to. Dedicated buttons for arp and time division cannot be reassigned to functions I would actually use. This might be good for a DAW, but it's worthless for a live rig. If they were updating the firmware with some regularity, and had feature requests in the forums, I'd take my chances that these things would get fixed but there is no hope of that. There is also a dead 'F' key on the lowest octave. As others have mentioned, the build quality stinks.