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XONE:K2
With no fewer than 52 hardware controls providing up to 171 MIDI commands across 3 layers plus the ability to link multiple units using X:LINK, saving USB ports on your computer Xone:K2 has the power and flexibility to put you in touch with the functions and features of your chosen software.
Quick and simple mapping lets you create a unique layout that mirrors your style and puts the functions that matter at your fingertips, whilst 3 colour illuminating switches give at-a-glance feedback - allowing you to work however you decide.
The high quality internal soundcard provides flexible user setup options using the Xone:K2 with headphones, headphones and a mix system or with an external mixer. Xone:K2 comes packed in a black padded case as standard.
Features:
Universal
Xone:K2 is a universal MIDI controller and is perfect for use with any DJ software, such as Traktor Pro, Ableton, Virtual DJ, PCDJ and MixVibes. Xone:K2 can even be used to control lights or VJ software if it can receive MIDI data it can take commands from K2.
MIDI Control
Xone:K2 has 52 physical controls including 12 analogue and 6 endless rotary encoders with push switch, 4 linear faders, and 30 backlit performance switches - providing up to 171 MIDI control commands across 3 layers. What each control does is entirely up to you - you can create a completely customised layout that perfectly fits the way you want to work.
Latching Layers
By assigning controls to multiple layers you can give a single physical control up to 3 functions. You can configure all, some or none of K2s controls to be linked to the latching layers system. As a quick visual reminder, when toggling through layers all switches assigned to a particular layer will illuminate in the appropriate colour.
Audio Interface
Xone:K2 has a high quality internal, four channel (2 stereo) soundcard. Setup options include using the Xone:K2 with headphones, headphones and a mix/PA system or with an external mixer Xone:K2 is truly versatile for all modern DJs requirements.
Style with Strength
Its slim line chassis, soft touch controls and minimal looks set K2 apart from the pack. Theres plenty of substance too Xone:K2 is built to Allen & Heaths renowned touring grade audio and build quality standards, including the use of steel nuts on all rotary controls to protect the circuitry from impact damage.
X:LINK
Two K2s can be linked via Allen & Heaths X:LINK protocol, giving twice as much control capability. X:LINK uses a standard RJ45 connector and distributes power and data, which means two K2s can be connected to your software using only one USB port on your computer. X:LINK also allows connection to Xone:DB4 and Xone:DB2 mixers, offering further expansion.
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UK DJ builder Allen & Heath may be best known as a mixer company, not so much a controller maker. But that’s a pity, because they make one of the most compelling controller units on the market.
Spoiler alert – the K1, like the K2 before it, feels great, has a terrific layout, works with anything you like, and more or less beats every other slim-line controller for DJing or VJing. Whatever you own now, you may find yourself wanting one of these to go along with it.
We’ve certainly had some controller news this month, partly because DJs are lining up for a big event in Atlantic City. So, yes, there’s now Akai gear that will work with Serato and finally gives that tool something slimmer than a house. There are bundle deals on Traktor with NI hardware. And Livid are about to ship a mixer-style controller.
Allen & Heath, for their part, are quick to say they’re making something generic. This doesn’t say Traktor on the tin. It isn’t forcing you to some default mapping. Its selling point from the manufacturer is that it’s meant to work with the software you want, the way you want.
If you’ve watched closely, it also shouldn’t look terribly new. The K1 is essentially identical to the Xone:K2, minus the K2’s audio interface. But that’s a good thing, because the K2 was already I think one of the best unsung controllers on the market. It has a no-nonsense layout – faders, backlit buttons, encoders, knobs. In that configuration, it fits a whole lot of controls, whereas some slimline controllers might leave you wanting more. And it feels simply fantastic, better than any other hardware on the market (save perhaps for the Faderfox).
Update: One key difference – you don’t get layers and latching as on the K2, as near as we can figure. That’s a significant change, but perhaps with the K1 as a satellite to a K2, it isn’t such an issue – or if you don’t mind having one layer for everything.
Or, to put it another way, the Xone:K1 and K2 are good enough that they can take Native Instruments on at their own game. This is slim and sleek and tidy and tasteful, like NI’s hardware. But the NI range, while it has lots of handy hardware, just doesn’t offer this particular layout. The Z1 is more of a two-channel mixing surface with crossfader; the F1 sacrifices controls and opts for short-throw faders to fit a big disco-light grid. The X1 is closest, but – no faders, and fewer controls. In fact, you’d be forgiven for imagining you’d seen something like the K1 with an NI logo on it, but despite the similar name, the K1 isn’t an NI product. It’s the Traktor Kontrol product NI somehow forgot to make themselves.
And that same layout lends itself to other software, too. I’ve seen more than one live visual performer buy a K2 to run VJ apps – even though it has an audio interface that’s useless to them. It’s a bonus that it feels great and comes with an optional, cute travel case that protects it in your luggage and doubles as a stand.
Actually, I’m saying way too much, as I should ask Allen & Heath to send me a review unit (and maybe… take some time sending it back). So, uh… forget that I just told you it’s the best-feeling slim-line fader controller on the market. I just … heard that somewhere.
The specs:
6 endless rotaries with push switch
12 analog pots
4 linear faders (these are, to me, the real selling point in feel)
30 backlit RGB performance switches
MIDI functionality – nothing proprietary here, driverless
USB power
Optional carry case
These units are also daisy-chainable using Allen & Heath X:LINK over Ethernet cabling, saving you a USB hub and tangled cables. (Sadly, it’s proprietary. Schade – it’d be great to use other hardware this way, but it does allow easy combination with Allen & Heath mixers or a rather nice combo of the K1 and K2.)
There are software maps for Ableton Live, Traktor (in different configurations), MixVibes, and so on, but I think I like best a custom overlay PDF so you can make your own. The one omission: Serato users are on your own (as I mentioned in the Akai story), in that there’s no template for download, but that should be fixed soon enough – 1.7 allows any MIDI mapping. (Edited to add that last clarification, in case you haven’t been keeping up – Serato has finally sorted MIDI controller mapping.)
The K2 is still worth a look, as it adds separate line and headphone outs. But K1 and K2 should certainly work nicely as a pair.
Price: £159 (including VAT), so a fair discount on the K2. (Note that apart from the audio interface, the K2 includes the case/stand free.) Available this month.
More info:
http://www.allen-heath.com/ahproducts/xonek1/
http://www.allen-heath.com/ahproducts/xonek2/