Arturia KeyLab Essential 61 mk3 Aquamarine
Product information "Arturia KeyLab Essential 61 mk3 Aquamarine"
The Keylab Essential MK3 range from Arturia arrives in a fresh new edition with a modern look, offering a high-quality master keyboard solution at an attractive price.
The keyboard provides a good playing feel for all keyboard instruments such as synths, organs, electric pianos and acoustic pianos, and is complemented by the 8 pads across 2 banks, which make programming drums/beats or triggering samples intuitive.
To control all important parameters the comprehensive transport section is also equipped with shortcut buttons. Seamless integration with Arturia's software instruments is handled via the 2,5"-LC-Display with 4 context-sensitive buttons and a clickable encoder, through which the supplied or subsequently installed DAW scripts can also be selected. For free assignment or pre-mapped to Arturia's software instruments, the Keylab Essential MK3 master keyboards feature nine 30mm faders and nine continuous rotary encoders.
With MIDI Out you can also use the master keyboard standalone as a controller for external hardware, and a universal pedal input expands the standard sustain pedal input to allow use with footswitches or expression pedals.
The KeyLab Essential Mk3 won the SOS Award 2025 in the category "Best Performance Controller"!
- Color/ Finish: Aquamarine
- Connections: Pedal In (Universal for Sustain/Footswitch/Expression), MIDI Out, USB
- Display: LCD
- Hammer Action: no
- Includes: Arturia Analog Lab, Ableton Live Lite, UVI Model D Piano, NI The Gentleman Piano, USB Cable
- Keyboard type: Velocity sensitive
- Keys: 61
- Number of Encoders: 9
- Number of Faders: 9
- Number of Pads: 8 Pads with 2 Banks
- Pitch Bender / Modulation: Pitch and Modulation
- Power supply: USB or external power supply
- Transport functions / buttons: 8 Transport buttons
- USB: Yes
- 4 Keys and clickable encoder for context-dependent control of the functions in the display
- creative playing aids ( Scale Mode, Chord Play, Arpeggiator (with presets), Hold function)
- pre-programmed DAW scripts (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Bitwig Studio)
Arturia was founded in 1999 in Grenoble, France, and initially made its name with software emulations of legendary vintage synthesizers. In combination with specially adapted controller keyboards, Arturia created an excellent integration of software and hardware — the V Collection software suite has for years been the industry standard for virtual synthesizers.
With the analogue Brute product line, Arturia scored a surprise coup a few years ago and has since been at the forefront of the analogue synthesizer revival movement. In 2015 the BeatStep Pro became a bestseller in the sequencer/pad controller category. With the flagship synth MatrixBrute and the drum machine DrumBrute, Arturia now stands for flexible, powerful instruments with a distinctive sound and an absolutely intuitive operating concept.