Description
No matter your genre or level of experience, Launchkey 49 gives you everything you need to create intuitively and expressively with Ableton Live. Launchkey 49 features a synth action keybed, velocity sensitive pads, essential transport controls, and nine 45mm faders.
Launchkey 49 also comes with a host of creative features that help take your ideas to the next level: Stay in key with Scale and Chord modes or find new melodic ideas with the arpeggiator and mutate your ideas into new forms.
- Designed for Ableton Live – plus full integration with Logic and Reason and out-of-the-box functionality with other
- Create and play with feeling – velocity-sensitive keyboard and 16 velocity-sensitive pads for expressive and dynamic performances
- Shape your sound – tweak instruments and effects to perfection using eight rotary encoders and nine 45mm faders
- Control anything MIDI – five-pin MIDI output works with any MIDI-compatible device
- Includes Ableton Live Lite
Ableton Live integration
Expand your musical vocabulary
Made to create
Standalone operation
Custom Modes: control anything
Launchkey performance
Included software
Ableton Live Lite - The renowned electronic music creation software, with seamless Launchkey integration. With effects, instruments, sounds and all kinds of creative features included – everything you need to make any kind of music.
XLN Audio Addictive Keys - Add great sounding piano to your tracks with the Studio Grand, based on the iconic Steinway® Model D. Plug in and play; you’ll be instantly transported to a professional recording studio set up to capture this beautiful piano.
AAS Session Bundle - Essential sounds for your tracks: Lounge Lizard’s authentic classic electric piano tones; Strum Session’s acoustic and electric guitar sounds; Ultra Analog Session’s easy-to-use, huge synth sounds.
Spitfire Audio LABS Expressive Strings - Exclusive to Launchkey: get immediately expressive and realistic strings sounds. Control release, delay and reverb or fade in experimental warped layers to add colour to your tracks and scores.
Klevgrand R0Verb - A hybrid between a simple reverb and a very complex delay in an easy-to-use plug-in. Design your own reverbs and put your sounds in their own unique space.
Klevgrand DAW Cassette - Bring your sound back to the golden age of cassette tapes, with an accurate recreation of saturation, distortion, noise and wobble.
Specifications in detail
Overview
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49 velocity sensitive keys
16x2 char screen
16 RGB backlit velocity sensitive pads
Pitch bend and modulation wheels
8 knobs
9 sliders
5 pin MIDI out socket
Arm/select buttons
Arp/scale/fixed chord buttons
Octave up/down buttons
Play/stop/record/loop buttons
Track navigation buttons
Capture MIDI/quantise/click/undo buttons
Stop/solo/mute button
Scene launch button
Device select/device lock buttons
USB B socket
Sustain pedal 1/4” jack socket
Kensington security slot
Dimensions
- Width789mm
- Depth258mm
- Height77mm (62mm excluding pots)
Software Compatibility
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Works with Ableton Live 10 or later. Ableton Live Lite included.
Full integration with Logic and Reason, plus out of the box functionality with other DAWs including Studio One, Cubase and Pro Tools, via HUI.
Launchkey also works as a standard MIDI controller.
Power requirements
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USB bus powered
Power supply not included