The Arturia Keylab Essential 61 MK3 provides you with your music-making essentials. Whether you’re a beginner producer, an experienced music maker, or anyone in between, unlock your full creative potential with a MIDI controller that breaks down all the barriers between you, your DAW, and your perfect sound.

KeyLab Essential MK3's focused controls give you quick access to the most useful & intuitive elements of your project & sound without complicating things. As comfortable for performance as it is for studio beat-making, KeyLab Essential’s durable hybrid synth-piano keybed is smooth & responsive, complemented by the familiar Pitch & Mod wheels and Pedal input for sustain, footswitch, or expression. Get the essential real-time info you need, from parameter values to your current preset, with a bright 2.5” display, complete with contextual buttons that make navigation effortless. Using the pads, switch between MIDI notes, clip triggering, finger-drumming, or whatever you need them to do. KeyLab Essential’s velocity & pressure-sensitive pads are even RGB color-coded so you can keep track at all times. Get that real hands-on feeling and interact with crucial controls right where you need them, from track panning to specific instrument parameters, with full rotation encoders. Tweak your track levels, envelope settings, selected parameters on your Arturia instruments, and more with ultra-smooth faders at your fingertips. Instantly switch from sculpting your synth sounds to piloting your DAW project with KeyLab Essential’s dedicated DAW controls, so you’re in control at all times. Its custom integration scripts even ensure that the most crucial controls work perfectly, whatever DAW you’re using.

The Keylab Essential MK3 is a vessel for creativity. For when you want to get experimental, find a new sound, or just need a bit of extra inspiration, KeyLab Essential has a few tricks up its sleeve. Create fun ever-changing melodies, create chord voicings, and always stay in key - without thinking twice. Play rich, full, powerful chords with a single key by selecting from built-in chord presets, or inputting your own custom chord shapes - great for when you need quick inspiration for your next hit. With scale mode, set your playing free and never go out of key with KeyLab Essential’s Scale mode, which quickly locks the keybed to one of several built-in scales. Wrong notes? Never again. Turn chords or selections of notes into vibrant melodies and rhythmic ideas with a built-in Arpeggiator, complete with Hold function so you can go no-hands. You can even use all these features together; play & hold a chord with a single key, arpeggiate it, and lock it to a scale of your choice.

Key Features:

• 61-note velocity-sensitive keyboard with hybrid synth-piano feel
• 2.5” LCD display with contextual buttons
• Seamless integration with Analog Lab V: select sounds, browse presets, smart-assigned controls
• Custom DAW scripts for FL Studio, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase
• USB-C connects to computers and MIDI Control Center
• MIDI 5-pin DIN output for connection to external instruments, gear
• Control input for pedal: sustain, expression, or footswitch
• USB-C powered
• Multi-mode arpeggiator
• Chord mode
• Scale mode
• Hold function
• Semitone transpose
• Pads & controls
• Various software titles & services included

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