Arturia Keylab Essential Universal Midi Keyboard Overview:

Make music - your way
Never been fan of menu excavations and setting headaches? KeyLab Essential: makes the technical stuff as simple as possible.

It’s easy to let your concentration drift and your inspiration slip when you spend hours on tedious tasks. KeyLab Essential is the result of careful research, with the aim of streamlining your creative process, giving you more time to express yourself through music. With the KeyLab Essential on your desk and its comprehensive set of music software loaded in your computer, the only required step to start experimenting, composing and recording is sitting in front of them

In tune with your studio
Geared for maximum compatibility, KeyLab Essential gives you unadulterated control of your digital world, seamlessly integrating with virtual instruments and DAW software.

KeyLab Essential is packed with clever controls that help you make swift work of everyday tasks within your recording software. Play your track, jog forwards and back, save, toggle your metronome and loop, record, and punch in on the fly. This functionality keeps your hands on the controller and your mind in the music. As well as offering ultimate integration with Analog Lab 2, KeyLab Essential is a universal MIDI controller, compatible with any third-party instruments or software. KeyLab Essential also comes with Ableton Live Lite so you can start recording, editing, and releasing your music with one of the most popular music platforms on the planet.
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Quality playing surface

The durable, smooth-action keys will capture every nuance of your performance. You can shift the keyboard using the dedicated octave switches, get creative with your performance using the pitch bend and modulation wheels, and make use of the optional sustain pedal. A chord feature is also included to save a chord and then to play and transpose it with a single key press.

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8 multi-purpose performance pads

Versatile and space-saving, the bank of dynamic, RGB back-lit pads features switchable modes, letting you punch in awesome drum rhythms and percussion patterns, while also letting you select your favourite mapping options to control Analogue Lab, your DAW, or any other software or hardware you create maps for.

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Rotary knobs & faders

Adjusting the panning and level of 8 channels at a time could not be more natural than with the automatically mapped knobs and faders. And if your creativity requires more tracks to fully express, no problem, two switches are there to move back and forth across your whole mix. Using the Analogue Lab dedicated memory they will give you a direct control of the parameters of your Arturia virtual instruments.

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DAW Command Center

MCU/HUI enabled DAW Command Center lets you totally master your creative environment. This great little control hub lets you play, pause, stop, record, toggle your metronome, and fast travel around your project. Take a break from the screen and focus on the music.

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Extras

KeyLab Essential packs a smart and effective twin-line LCD display to let you know the right info when you need it such as your presets and parameter info. In user memories, you can even customize the label it displays for each knob and fader. Just underneath is the preset remote for Analogue Lab and all the other Arturia instruments. Your mouse will maybe miss you, not the opposite.

Features:

• Performance controls: Bend your notes, modulate your sounds and transpose your keyboard by semitones or full octaves.
• Chord play: Quickly create full arrangements with intelligent chord feature.
• Midi channel select: Quickly change MIDI channels with dedicated control.
• Performance pads: Dual-purpose dynamic, back-lit pads also let you select your favorite mapping options.
• DAW command center: Take control of your recording software thanks to the MCU/HUI protocol.
• Screen and Analog Lab remote: Read the right info when you need it thanks the twin-line LCD screen and browse your Analog Lab presets directly on your keyboard.
• Pre-mapped knobs and faders: Adjust the panning and level of the tracks in your DAW, and the essential parameters of the Arturia virtual instruments.
• 61 & 88 Note Keyboard: Durable, velocity-sensitive keys will capture every nuance of your performance.
• MIDI out: Control any MIDI-compatible synths, outboard, and modular gear.
• Sustain pedal input: Push forward the expressivity of your keyboard play with a sustain pedal. The polarity can be inverted to comply with all types of pedals.
• USB connectivity: Bus-powered, class-compliant, and powered through usb.
• Optional DC power: Power KeyLab Essential without connecting to a computer.

Specifications:

• Software Specifications:
• Includes Analog Lab software with 5000 synth sounds
• Includes Ableton Live Lite
• Includes UVI Grand Piano model D

• Hardware Specifications:
• 61 & 88 keys with velocity
• Controllers: 1 clickable encoder, 9 encoders, 9 30mm faders, 6 transport switches, 4 command switches, 1 modulation wheel, 1 pitch bend wheel, 8 touch and pressure-sensitive pads
• Connectivity: MIDI out, USB, Sustain pedal
• Functions as a universal MIDI controller
• Twin-line LCD screen
• MCU/HUI control compatibility
• Chord Play mode

• Perfect Analog Lab 2 integration:
• Select sounds, browse presets, switch parts, smart-assigned controls.
• Standalone or plug-in operation: VST, VST3, AU, AAX.
• Over 5,000 TAE powered preset sounds from Arturia’s award-winning V Collection
• Ableton Live 9 Lite - record, layer, and edit your sounds to create a finished song.
• UVI Grand Piano Model D - Sample-based software recreation of Steinway classic.
• Compatible with all major Digital Audio Workstation: Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, FL Studio, Bitwig, Cubase, Ableton Live, Digital Performer, Studio One (All product names, trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners).

• Size & weight:
• Instrument size : 34.7 x 9.7 x 2.9 inches (882 x 248 x 76 mm)
• Instrument weight : 7.2lb (3.3Kg)

• Platform Requirements
• Analog Lab
• Windows: Win 7+ PC: 4 GB RAM; 2 GHz CPU. 
• 2GB free hard disk space
• Apple: 10.8+: 4 GB RAM; 2 GHz CPU. 
• 2GB free hard disk space
• Works in Standalone, VST 2.4 (32-bit and 64-bit), VST 3 (32-bit and 64-bit), AAX (32 bits with PT 10.3.8, 64 bits with PT 11), Audio Unit (32-bit and 64-bit).

• Ableton Live Lite
• Windows: Win 7+ PC: 4 GB RAM; 2 GHz CPU. 
• 3GB free hard disk space 
• 1024x768 display, 
• DVD drive or broadband internet connection for installation
• Apple: 10.8+: 4 GB RAM; 2 GHz CPU. 
• 3GB free hard disk space 
• 1024x768 display, 
• DVD drive or broadband internet connection for installation

• UVI Grand Piano Model D
• Windows: Win 7+ PC: 4 GB RAM; 2 GHz CPU. 
• 3GB free hard disk space
• Apple: 10.7+: 4 GB RAM; 2 GHz CPU. 
• 3GB free hard disk space
• Works in Standalone, VST, AAX, Audio Unit.