

The dials are made of an inviting, soft touch plastic and feel as though they will stand up well to plenty of abuse. Made of tough textured white plastic with a metal bottom, the controller is well made and we actually prefer its compactness to the original. It's a shame they missed the shuffle (swing control) off the hardware but the swing itself feels great. The neat looking USB powered sparkLE controller has been logically laid out and mirrored exactly by the SparkLE software. wav samples on a pad (with several trigger modes) but any sample chopping will have to be done in other software before importing. This is a significant advantage over the Akai MPC Studio, though SparkLE is designed to be more of a dedicated drum synth and thus doesn't offer the deep sample manipulating and chopping facilities the Akai has.
