Arturia Keylab Essential 88 MK3

Arturia Keylab Essential 88 MK3 88-Key MIDI Controller

Arturia Keylab Essential 88 MK3 take command of your sounds, and perform like you’ve always dreamed of. Arturia KeyLab Essential 88 MK3 is an intuitive, powerful, carefully crafted controller with a full size keyboard. Above all, it invites you to unleash your creative flow with note-spanning flair.

Your keys to creativity

A new standard for studio professionals, performers and beginner pianists, the KeyLab Essential 88 MK3 carries the legacy of 7 octaves forward, offering an accessible and elegant full-length design. In fact, it’s an ideal centrepiece for your professional setup, or for getting your playing skills off the ground.

Control any DAW

Enjoy plug-and-play connectivity and ready-mapped controls with your DAW of choice. Furthermore, KeyLab Essential 88 MK3 doesn’t just feature familiar MCU & HUI compatibility; it also has custom scripts for major DAWs. Therefore, experience means next-level integration.

Customize your workflow

KeyLab Essential easily adapts to your creative needs; recall your favourite ’liked’ presets from Analog Lab, navigate your custom-made playlists, activate custom User programs for your own control assignments, and more.

Pro software Included

From faithfully recreated acoustic instruments and pianos to a myriad of classic and modern synths sounds, KeyLab Essential 88 mk3 has you covered. KeyLab Essential’s focused controls give you quick access to the most useful & intuitive elements of your project & sound without complicating things.

Keybed

As comfortable for performance as it is for studio beat-making, KeyLab Essential 88 MK3’s semi-weighted keybed is smooth & responsive, complemented by the familiar Pitch & Mod wheels and Pedal input for sustain, footswitch, or expression.

Display

Get the essential real-time info you need, from parameter values to your current preset, with a bright 2.5” display, complete with contextual buttons that make navigation effortless.

Pads

Switch between MIDI notes, clip triggering, finger-drumming, or whatever you need them to do. KeyLab Essential 88 MK3’s velocity & pressure-sensitive pads are even RGB color-coded so you can keep track at all times.

Encoders

Get that real hands-on feeling and interact with crucial controls right where you need them, from track panning to specific instrument parameters, with full rotation encoders.

Faders

Additionally, tweak your track levels, envelope settings, selected parameters on your Arturia instruments with ultra-smooth faders at your fingertips.

DAW controls

Instantly switch from sculpting your synth sounds to piloting your DAW project with KeyLab Essential 88 MK3’s dedicated DAW controls. Also, its custom integration scripts even ensure that the most crucial controls work perfectly, whatever DAW you’re using.

Practice meets perfect

KeyLab Essential 88 MK3 comes into its own when improvising a dextrous solo or keying a dynamic lead progression. If you are simply seeking fresh inspiration and pitch-perfect play, it has you covered too. The chord, scale and arpeggiator modes mean you can easily embellish your performance, stay in key and trigger vibrant sequences.

Your eco-designed MIDI controller

KeyLab Essential mk3 follows in the footsteps of MiniLab 3, the world’s first eco-designed MIDI controller. Arturia worked to continue this trend and apply sustainable practices to the 88 key version. Specifically, they maintained the best possible feel, build quality and durability. Furthermore, this includes sourcing the best recycled-plastic and confecting a 100% recycled packaging in the production of every single product.

Box Content:

• KeyLab Essential Unit
• USB-A to USB-C cable
• Registration card