Launchkey is an intuitive and fully integrated MIDI keyboard controller designed for musicians of all types and abilities. With Launchkey, you can easily create and play your music like never before, with various musical creation features that can be used standalone to remove barriers to creativity and expand your musical vocabulary.
Eight Scale modes guide you into new musical territory, by transposing keys played to notes in the scale selected. Simply choose your root note and your preferred scale, then play. Three Chord modes transform the keys and pads into an interactive surface of musical exploration, where every note played is tonally and harmonically linked. The arpeggiator lets you explore new melodies and find ideas quickly, while the mutate function reconstructs your patterns into exciting new forms.
Custom Modes simplify the relationship between controller and software, with more power than ever in your hands. Programmable using the Novation Components browser-based tool, Custom Modes let you design the behaviour of your Launchkey, with control over control assignments, MIDI routing, pad colour and much more.
Launchkey 61 MK3 is equipped with a full-size five-pin MIDI DIN output, enabling simple connection to the universe of MIDI devices — new and old. Coupled with its immense standalone potential, Launchkey is now the centrepiece to your live or studio rig — computer or not.
The Launchkey platform has always been about flexibility, and the MK3 revision carries this mantra at its core. Larger, improved velocity-sensitive pads provide greater control over dynamics, and eight fixed rotary knobs bring your software to life at your fingertips. The integration with Ableton Live is truly seamless, with a dedicated button for activating the Capture MIDI function, plus track arm, quantise, click and loop controls, for flying around your Session faster than ever.
Not an Ableton Live user? No problem, Launchkey also has full integration with Logic and Reason, plus out of the box functionality with other DAWs including Studio One, Cubase and Pro Tool, via HUI.
Whether starting out or locked in a groove, Launchkey is the controller keyboard to take you further on your musical journey. With a collection of software instruments, including Ableton Live 10 Lite, Serato Sample LE, Spitfire Audio LABS Expressive Strings, XLN Audio Addictive Keys, Klevgrand R0Verb and DAW Cassette, AAS Session Bundle, a two-month Splice Sounds membership and the Novation Sound Collective, Launchkey 61 equips you with an amazing bundle of sounds."
Features
Designed for Ableton Live, access to all the controls you need
Velocity-sensitive keyboard
16 velocity-sensitive pads enable expressive and dynamic performance
Three chord modes (fixed, scale and user) let you trigger chords with one finger
Scale modes transpose keys and pads to notes in the selected scale
One-touch access to Ableton Live’s Capture MIDI feature
Powerful arpeggiator takes you to new melodic, harmonic and rhythmic places
Five-pin MIDI output works with any MIDI-compatible device
16x2 character screen, easily see what you’re controlling or selecting
Tweak instruments and effects to perfection using eight rotary encoders
Nine 45mm faders
Four Custom Modes enable you to create unique control setups using Novation Components
USB B socket
Sustain pedal 1/4” jack socket
Kensington security slot
USB bus powered
Includes Ableton Live 10 Lite, virtual instruments, plugins and sample packs
