Description
Launchkey 61 is your creative companion for intuitive music production in Ableton Live, regardless of your genre or expertise. This MIDI keyboard controller features semi-weighted keybeds, velocity-sensitive pads, essential transport controls, and nine 45mm faders.
It comes equipped with creative features such as Scale and Chord modes for maintaining musical harmony, an arpeggiator for generating new melodies, and mutation capabilities for evolving your musical concepts.
Ableton Live Integration
Launchkey gives you unrivalled access to Ableton Live’s functions, including Capture MIDI, track arm, quantise, click and loop controls. Not using Ableton Live? No problem, Launchkey also has full integration with Logic, Cubase and Reason, plus out of the box functionality with other DAWs including Studio One and Pro Tools, via HUI.
Expand Your Musical Vocabulary
Inspirational features include Scale Mode, Chord Modes and a powerful arpeggiator, which together extend your musical capabilities and let you create in new ways. Scale Mode transposes keys and pads played to notes in the scale selected; three chord modes let you trigger complex chords with one finger, while the powerful arpeggiator gets melodies moving, fast. Strum Mode, introduced with firmware v1.1, lets you strum chords, for even more playing potential.
Standalone Operation
Launchkey works standalone, so it’s the perfect controller for any music-making setup, with or without a computer. The Scale and Chord Modes, arpeggiator and Custom Modes can all be used to control an all-hardware studio or live rig.
Custom Modes: Control Anything
The full-size five-pin MIDI output, works with any MIDI-compatible device. Use Novation Components to configure four Custom Modes, which map Launchkey’s knobs and pads to software and hardware features.
Designed for Ableton Live, Logic, Reason, and more.
Expressive performances with a velocity-sensitive keyboard and 16 velocity-sensitive pads.
Precise sound sculpting with eight rotary encoders and nine 45mm faders for instrument and effect adjustments.
Versatile MIDI control with a five-pin MIDI output for compatibility with any MIDI-enabled device.
Includes Ableton Live Lite for immediate music creation.
Overview:
- 61 velocity sensitive keys
- 16×2 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:
- Width: 952mm
- Depth: 258mm
- Height: 77mm (62mm excluding pots)
Software Compatibility:
- 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:
- USB bus powered
- Power supply not included
