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Seamless Integration with Your Preferred DAW
Experience effortless control and smooth connectivity with your preferred digital audio workstation (DAW) using the Arturia KeyLab Essential 61 mk3 MIDI Controller. This versatile controller offers plug-and-play compatibility, allowing you to easily connect and control your DAW without any hassle. The KeyLab Essential 61 mk3 goes beyond standard compatibility, featuring custom scripts for major DAWs, ensuring a higher level of integration and an enhanced workflow.
Enhance Your Creative Workflow
The Arturia KeyLab Essential 61 mk3 MIDI Controller allows you to customize your workflow according to your unique creative preferences. Easily recall your favorite presets from Analog Lab, navigate through your personalized playlists, and activate custom User programs for personalized control assignments. With KeyLab Essential, you have the flexibility to tailor your setup to suit your individual needs, providing a seamless and intuitive creative experience.
Seamless Integration with Analog Lab
With the Arturia KeyLab Essential 61 mk3 MIDI Controller, you can effortlessly control and interact with Analog Lab, turning it into a hardware synthesizer. Experience a hands-on approach to shaping your sound as KeyLab Essential's controls are perfectly mapped to Analog Lab's parameters. Easily adjust sound parameters, tweak effects, and browse through presets, all without the need to touch your computer. Immerse yourself in the world of Analog Lab and unleash your creativity with this powerful combination of hardware and software.
Enhance your performances with the KeyLab Essential 61 mk3's expressive features.
The velocity-sensitive keys with aftertouch allow for dynamic playing, while the pitch and modulation touch strips provide added control and expression over your sounds.
Designed with a focus on intuitive control and seamless integration, this MIDI controller offers a host of features to enhance your creative workflow. Whether you're a professional musician, producer, or hobbyist, the KeyLab Essential 61 mk3 empowers you to express your musical ideas with precision and ease.
- The KeyLab Essential 61 mk3 features a user-friendly layout with dedicated controls for essential functions, providing effortless access to parameters, presets, and performance features.
- Enjoy seamless integration with your favorite digital audio workstations (DAWs) and virtual instruments.
- The KeyLab Essential 61 mk3 is compatible with popular software like Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, and more, allowing you to control your music production environment with ease.
- Access a wide range of instruments, from classic analog synths to modern digital keyboards, and bring your musical ideas to life with a diverse palette of sonic possibilities.
- Explore a vast collection of high-quality sounds and presets through Arturia's Analog Lab software
Erin Mays
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2025
Pretty straightforward, affordable. Build quality is great, love the lights and display and nav wheel, buttons have a nice cushy but firm feel.Key feel is about what you'd expect for what you're paying, but the sustain pedal is really awkward (huge vertical travel, which is weird because I don't think Sustain is usually variable — CC15 or whatever the # is just on or off, no?). It needs to be anchored down or it flops all over. So, I wouldn't use this for anything you're trying to do live, but build quality on the pedal is pretty good, and it works well enough if you're just trying to get data into your DAW — certainly preferable to drawing in sustains.Pretty "meh" so far, so let me get to the good part — the out-of-the-box Ableton compatibility. Being able to control playback and record, navigate, etc. from the keyboard controller vs having to use mouse or computer keyboard controls is one of those things I had no idea I desperately needed in my life until I experienced it. I haven't had a ton of luck getting custom mappings to work (faders, knobs) — I suspect that's user error or lack of knowledge on my part (i.e I just need to spend time with the docs), but I do think it's evidence that it's not super intuitive, so take that for what it's worth. I suspect once I get it working, I'll be pretty happy with it based on what I'm getting stock.My one major gripe is you only get a trial of Arturia's piano VST. I'm fully aware that I didn't just drop major cash on an NI keyboard controller, so I'm not expecting half a grand's worth of free software and virtual instrument libraries, but come on, I don't even get a piano to go with my piano controller for keepsies? You do get to keep Arturia's attempt at a DAW without paying for it, but I can't imagine anyone who buys this keyboard actually uses it since it's so heavily geared toward Ableton users (and good at it).
Sir elex
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2024
Great product ✋✋✋👈🗣️
Efren P.
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2024
Installation and configuration on Windows 11 works great and easy integration with Reaper, Digital Audio Workstation, for MIDI Recording.
J Johnson
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
Absolutely love the Arturia Keylab Essential! I already owned the MiniLab 3 and was very happy with it. The Essential comes with the Arturia Analog Lab V collection of sounds (3000+) plus more, and I’m still trying to get through them all! The sounds are amazing and tweakable, sparking seemingly unlimited creative ideas. Set up is intuitive and easy, too. So much fun creating and producing my music with this controller! The added perk was the included sustain pedal from this particular vendor for the same price you’d pay other vendors for the keyboard, alone!
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