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KeyLab Essential 88 MK3: Your MIDI Control Center!
Take control of your sounds and play the way you’ve always dreamed. KeyLab Essential 88 is an intuitive, powerful, and carefully crafted controller with a full keyboard that invites you to unleash your creativity – all with a rich musical flair.
Multi-Octave Expression
Whether you’re starting to learn piano or composing music, an experienced producer or anywhere in between, unlock your creative potential with the full range of an 88-key MIDI controller that seamlessly fits any workflow.
One Size Fits All
Whether you’re searching for your first keyboard to learn piano or start your music production journey, or you simply want the freedom to have keys wherever you go – in your studio or on the road – the KeyLab Essential 88 meets the needs of professional stage musicians and beginner keyboardists alike.
All the Sounds You Need
Experience advanced control over your plug-ins and DAW projects. Enjoy seamless communication with Analog Lab. Get a pro creative software bundle to fuel your creativity – all in one package!
Inspiration for New Ideas
KeyLab Essential 88 not only helps you record and navigate your projects but also inspires you. Create catchy melodies, captivating rhythms, and moving chord sequences with its creative features. This pushes your sound forward.
A Feeling of Quality
Want the playability of a premium instrument, the flexibility of a top-tier controller, and an all-rounder for every application? The KeyLab Essential with its semi-weighted keyboard and smart layout offers all that in one device.
Control Any DAW
Enjoy true plug-and-play connectivity and dedicated controls for the DAW of your choice. KeyLab Essential supports not only the well-known MCU & HUI protocols but also custom scripts for all major DAWs for next-level integration.
Perfect for Your Workflow
KeyLab Essential adapts effortlessly to your creative needs. Recall your favorite presets in Analog Lab, navigate your custom playlists, activate custom user programs for your own controller assignments, and much more.
Interaction with Analog Lab
Turn Analog Lab into a hardware synthesizer and tweak your sounds thanks to the perfectly mapped controls of KeyLab Essential. Adjust sound parameters, optimize effects, and browse presets without touching your computer.
Essential, Intuitive, and Flexible Operation
Sometimes you just want to get your work done.
The special controls of KeyLab Essential give you quick access to the most useful and intuitive elements of your projects and sounds – it doesn’t get any easier.
Keyboard
Whether on stage or beat-making in the studio – the semi-weighted keys of KeyLab Essential respond smoothly and quickly, complemented by familiar pitch and mod wheels plus pedal inputs for sustain, footswitch, or expression.
Display
All the essential real-time info you need – from parameter values to your current preset – on a bright, easy-to-read 2.5-inch display with context buttons that make navigation even simpler.
Pads
Switch between MIDI notes, clip triggering, finger drumming, or whatever you need. The velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads of KeyLab Essential are even RGB color-coded, so you always keep track.
Rotary Knobs
Experience true hands-on feeling and interact with the most important controls exactly where you need them – from track panning to dedicated instrument parameters with the endless rotary knobs.
Faders
Adjust track levels, envelope settings, selected parameters of your Arturia instruments, and much more with the ultra-smooth faders.
DAW Control
Switch directly from programming your synthesizer sounds to controlling your DAW project with the dedicated DAW controls of KeyLab Essential, so you always stay in control. Custom integration scripts ensure the key controls work perfectly, no matter which DAW you use.
Practice Meets Perfection
KeyLab Essential 88 shines when you want to improvise a refined solo or play a dynamic lead progression. If you’re looking for fresh inspiration and perfect playability, this is the one. With chord, scale, and arpeggiator modes, you can easily enhance your performance, stay in key, and create lively sequences.
Your Eco-Friendly MIDI Controller
A better product for the environment means a more sustainable and creative future.
The KeyLab Essential mk3 follows in the footsteps of the MiniLab 3, the world’s first eco-friendly MIDI controller. Not only designed for better performance but also to produce less waste and reduce our carbon footprint.
We continued this trend and made sustainability possible for our 88-key version while maintaining the positive experience, build quality, and durability. This includes using recycled plastic and 100% recyclable packaging in the production of every single product.
Your Key to Musical Diversity!
Features
High-Quality Premium Keyboard
- Keyboard with 88 velocity-sensitive, semi-weighted keys
Pads & Controls
- One clickable rotary knob
- Nine rotary knobs
- 9 x 30 mm faders
- Eight transport buttons
- Four command buttons
- One modulation wheel and bend wheel
- Eight touch- and pressure-sensitive pads
Control Display
- 2.5-inch LCD display with context buttons
- Real-time feedback for adjustments and controls
Smart Features
- Multimode arpeggiator
- Chord mode
- Scale mode
- Hold function
- Semitone transposition
Software Integration
- Seamless integration with Analog Lab Pro and V Collection: select sounds, browse presets, intelligently assigned controls
- Custom DAW scripts for FL Studio, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase, Bitwig Studio
- Also compatible with MCU/HUI protocol
- Up to six user presets for storing custom settings and assignments
Included Software and Services
- Analog Lab Pro software with 2000+ sounds
- Ableton Live Lite
- Native Instruments The Gentleman
- UVI Model D
- Two-month Loopcloud subscription
- Melodics subscription for 40 lessons
Connections
- USB-C for connection to computer and MIDI Control Center
- 5-pin DIN MIDI output for connecting external instruments or devices
- Control input for pedal: sustain, expression, or footswitch
- USB-C powered
Dimensions
- Dimensions (WxDxH): 1258 x 255 x 66.8 mm
- Weight: 8.2 kg
Scope of delivery
- 1 x Arturia KeyLab Essential 88 MK3
- 1 x USB-A to USB-C cable
- 1 x Registration card
Specification
- Product number 00105702
- Number of Keys 88
- Colour White
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Variant Arturia KeyLab Essential 88 MK3 Black
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To the mk88 Price performance absolutely top. Already have the Mini Freak. Very good in combination with the large keyboard 👍
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