Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol A49 MIDI Keyboard 49-Key Controller

Making music is best when it’s fast, fun, and hands-on. With a responsive semi-weighted keyboard, you can explore sounds, customize them, perform, and capture your ideas—all in one seamless experience. A-Series keyboards include four premium instruments and MASCHINE Essentials, giving you everything you need to bring your creativity to life.

Find the Perfect Sound—Fast

With hundreds of presets available, searching for the right one can slow you down. Komplete Kontrol A49 simplifies this by intuitively tagging and organizing all Komplete and NKS presets, so you can find what you need instantly. Plus, sound previews let you hear each preset before loading. Need a deep bass? Simply use the encoders and OLED display to navigate: SYNTH > BASS > SUB BASS, then browse and load the perfect tone for your track.

Effortless Control, Instantly Mapped

Every Komplete and NKS instrument and effect is pre-mapped to the hardware by the designers themselves. Essential parameters—like envelope controls and filter cutoffs—appear on the OLED display the moment you touch a knob, so you always see exactly what you’re adjusting, whether it’s in kHz, dB, or BPM.

Smart Play—Play with Confidence

Forget wrong notes—just select a scale, and every key stays in key. Activate Chord Mode to play full harmonies with a single key, then turn on the arpeggiator for expressive, evolving patterns. New to keyboards? Easy Mode maps the white keys to any scale, making it effortless to play melodies.

Seamless DAW Integration

No matter your setup, A-Series keyboards integrate smoothly with Logic Pro X, Ableton Live, Cubase, Nuendo, and GarageBand, giving you instant control over transport, mixing, and editing. Just getting started? MASCHINE Essentials lets you capture and arrange ideas directly from your hardware—no extra software required.

From first inspiration to final production, A-Series keyboards keep you in the creative flow.

Features

• Best-in-class, semi-weighted custom NI keybed
• Informative OLED display for at-a-glance navigation
• USB 2.0 bus powered
• 8 touch-sensitive control knobs
• Ergonomic pitch and mod wheels
• 4-directional push encoder for one-handed sound browsing and project navigation
• Includes Maschine Essentials, Monark, The Gentleman, Reaktor Prism, Scarbee Mark I, Ableton Live Lite and more
• TRS pedal input, assignable to sustain or expression