ArturiaKeyLab 88 Essential mk3 MIDI Keyboard Controller

Arturia KeyLab 88 Essential mk3

The Arturia Keylab Essential 88 mk3 keyboard MIDI controller is the perfect centerpiece to your home studio set-up, whether you're a beginning keyboardist or dedicated producer. Seamlessly integrating hardware and software instruments into a single musical control station, this full size keyboard controller with premium keybed, pads, and controls is the ideal contact point with your music. With included software instruments and Ableton Live Lite, the Keylab Essential 88 has everything you need to play instruments, control effects, edit audio and MIDI in your DAW, and capture expressive performances.

Arturia has delivered premium physical controls to make your time in the studio inspiring and enjoyable. The 88-key velocity-sensitive semi-weighted keyboard offers a harmonious balance of piano weight with a touch of synth-style quickness, allowing you to add expressive weight to gestures while remaining light enough for synth control. 8 touch and pressure sensitive pads, 9 rotary encoders and faders, mod and pitch wheels, transport controls, and more are effortlessly mappable to control sounds and other tasks in your DAW. With Arturia's seamless software integration and custom DAW scripts for most popular DAWs, it's easier than ever to get right to music making, no matter your chosen tools.

A perfect entry point for those starting out in keyboard or piano performance, the Keylab Essential 88 mk3 offers a premium and full-size piano experience thanks to included software instruments and more. Analog Lab Pro offers over 2000 sounds, while Native Instruments has supplied their "The Gentleman" piano instrument, giving you all sorts of piano, keyboard, and synth sounds to explore right away. A license for Ableton Live Lite lets you take these sounds and start to compose full pieces of music. Whether you are just starting out or upgrading to a larger controller, these included extras add a ton of useful tools for any musician.

KeyLab 88 Essential mk3 Features

• 88-key keyboard MIDI controller
• Semi-weighted, velocity-sensitive keybed
• 1 clickable encoder
• 9 rotary encoders
• 9 30mm faders
• 8 transport switches
• 4 command switches
• Modulation and pitch bend wheels
• 8 touch and pressure sensitive pads
• 2.5" LCD display for realtime feedback
• Multi-mode arpeggiator
• Chord and scale modes
• Hold and transpose functions
• Seamless software integration with Analog Lab Pro and V
• Custom scripts for most major DAWs for immediate set-up
• Included software: Analog Lab Pro, Ableton Live Lite, Native Instruments The Gentleman,UVI Model D, 2-month Loopcloud subscription, 40-lesson Melodics subscription
• USB-C and MIDI 5-pin connections
• Control input for expression, sustain, or footswitch