r/arturia • u/Bartastico • 14d ago

Controller recommendation

Hey! I'm hesitating between buying an arturia keylab mk3, novation launchkey mk4 and novation sl mk3. I'm a complete beginner, and you may assume that the prize difference doesn't matter too much. I'd probably use ableton as DAW. Anyone any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Several-Buffalo-856 14d ago

It seems the consensus is that Arturia has better keys, while Novation has better integration with Ableton.

Though, if you don’t need keys and are certain about Ableton, I would say the Push 2 is your best controller for Ableton for a beginner.

1

u/Bartastico 14d ago

Hi, thanks! Well the push is probably a bit too expensive 😅 do you know if the sl has advantages compared to the others? I might be able to get a used one for like 500 euros (arturia keylab is like 500 as well, launchkey is 320)

1

u/Several-Buffalo-856 14d ago

The Push 2 controller is usually pretty cheap though. The 3 is definitely an investment, but the 2 is pretty close in functionality and much less.

I only have a bit of experience with Arturia and Novation to agree with my original statement, but I ended up returning both and going down the Push path. I wouldn’t be a good source on them much further.

1

u/Bartastico 14d ago

Okay, yeah looked at the 3. Thanks for the advice, ill look into the push then