Making music shouldn't feel like work. The Arturia KeyLab Essential Mk3 eliminates road blocks and puts the enjoyment back into music creation, allowing you to find the right sound faster than ever. This MIDI controller is your favorite synth sounds, DAW controller, and mixing console all in one, with seamless control over DAW projects and software instruments. The KeyLab Essential is designed to inspire, boasting sensitive controls, a hybrid synth-feel keybed, and an intuitive layout to make your projects fun again!
FeaturesYour Keys to Creativity
Before you've had the opportunity to think of a question, the KeyLab Essential already has all the creative answers. This controller integrates seamlessly into your setup to become a creative extension of your identity, regardless of how you choose to create music.
All the Software & Sounds You Need for Making Music
From a full copy of Analog Lab to a collection of over 4 million samples, KeyLab Essential gives you have all the tools for whatever music you want to create.
Essential, Intuitive, Flexible Controls
KeyLab Essential's streamlined controls give you fast access to the most handy & intuitive elements of your project and sound without complications. The KeyLab Essential is perfect for creating in the studio, or performing on stage thanks to the smooth and responsive hybrid synth-piano keybed in combination with Pitch and Mod wheels, and a Pedal Input for external foot control. You can switch between MIDI notes, clip triggering, finger-drumming, and more, using the RGB color-coded velocity & pressure-sensitive pads.
Interact with key controls at your fingertips with full rotation Encoders, and adjust anything from panning to instrument specific parameters, and the included ultra-smooth Faders allow you to tweak track levels, envelope setting and other parameters on your Arturia instruments. Finally, with dedicated DAW controls, you can switch between sculpting your synth sounds to navigating your session. With KeyLab Essential, you're in control at all times.
A Vessel for Creativity
When you're looking to get experimental, discover new sounds, or just need some inspiration, KeyLab Essential has you covered. Create ever-evolving melodies, chord voicings, and never play out of key - all without thinking twice.
Chord Play allows you to play entire rich, powerful chords with a single key press by choosing from in-built chord presets, or inputting your own custom chord shapes. Scale Mode locks the keybed to one of the several built-in scales, making sure you never play a wrong note again, and setting your playing free. You can even turn chords or selections of notes into moving melodies and rhythmic patterns with the integrated Arpeggiator, complete with Hold function so you can free up your hands.
Your Eco-Designed MIDI Controller
Following in the footsteps of the MiniLab 3 - the world's first eco-designed MIDI controller - the KeyLab Essential Mk3 is built to perform better, produce less waste, and reduce Arturia's carbon footprint permanently. This MIDI controller is constructed from 40% recycled plastic, 100% recyclable packaging, and with a material carbon footprint reduction of 18%, this controller is seriously sustainable.
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