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Novation Launchkey 49 MK4 MIDI Keyboard Controller
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SKU
NOVLKE49MK4
£229.00
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Quick overview
The Launchkey 49 MK4 is a robust DAW controller equipped with an array of built-in creative tools. Every aspect is crafted to be musical, expressive, and sharply focused on fostering creative flow. It features a semi-weighted keybed and 16 pads with polyphonic aftertouch, alongside a meticulously organised control surface that offers deep DAW integration. You can play instruments and drums, launch clips and scenes, and instantly manage your DAW’s mixer, devices, and effects. Additionally, the Launchkey includes a customisable arpeggiator, three Chord Modes for quick creation of musical progressions, a Scale Mode to ensure you stay in key, and a Chord Detector that displays the current chord on the OLED screen.
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Discover Inspiration with Launchkey 49 MK4
Unleash your creativity with Launchkey 49 MK4, an all-in-one DAW controller featuring four octaves of semi-weighted keys and 16 patented FSR pads for finger drumming, clip launching, and more. It also includes nine faders and eight endless rotary encoders for mixing, plugin control, and performance with built-in creative tools.
Next-Generation Design and Features
With updated hardware and a refreshed, minimalist design, the new Launchkey offers innovative ways to create in your DAW, with hardware synths, or on iPhone and iPad. Expanded Chord, Scale, and Arpeggio Modes help you stay in key and perform expressively, with detailed feedback from the clear, new OLED display.
Seamless DAW Integration
Launchkey supports all major DAWs out of the box, including Ableton Live, Logic, Cubase, Reason Studios, Reaper, FL Studio, and Ardour. Enjoy a hardware-powered workflow that gives you full control over transport functions, timeline navigation, mixing, EQ, clip launching, and instrument and effect parameters. In Ableton Live’s Session View or Logic’s Live Loops, the 16 drum pads double as Launchpad-style clip launchers with RGB backlights that match your screen.
Top-Tier Keys and Pads
The upgraded keybed of Launchkey 49 MK4 is designed for sensitivity and durability. With 49 semi-weighted, waterfall-style keys, it offers the feel of a premium hardware instrument. For finger drummers, the patented, velocity-sensitive FSR drum pads with polyphonic aftertouch feature unique radial sensors for increased sensitivity and improved consistency.
Enhanced Creative Tools
Launchkey 49’s creative tools are built into the hardware, ensuring consistent functionality in your DAW, with hardware synths, or on mobile devices. Scale Modes allow you to lock your keyboard to one of 30 scales to eliminate wrong notes or map everything to the white keys. Fixed Chord mode triggers full chords from a single key, and new Chord Maps let you craft emotive progressions from the pads. The latest arpeggiator iteration makes it easier to twist and mutate sequences for endless inspiration.
Flexible Performance Options
You can now split Launchkey 49’s keyboard into two zones to play one with each hand or layer two MIDI channels across all 49 keys to send the same notes to both.
Custom Modes for Personalised Control
Launchkey’s controls are customisable. Using the free Components software, configure the faders, pads, and encoders to behave as you want with your software or hardware. Store up to four custom mappings for each and recall them instantly from the hardware.
Beyond the Computer
The five-pin MIDI output allows easy connection to hardware synthesizers without a DAW. Together with Components and custom mappings, you can control essential functions directly from your keyboard. Launchkey is USB-powered and class compliant, making it compatible with many music-making apps for iPhone and iPad, including the free Novation Launchpad app.
Complete Creative Package
The Launchkey 49 Mk4 keyboard controller comes with everything needed to start making music. Included is Ableton Live 12 Lite, enabling you to record and perform with up to eight tracks of MIDI or audio, alongside a suite of instruments, effects, and creative tools. Additionally, you get a selection of studio-grade effects and sounds from Novation and Focusrite.
- In-depth DAW control - Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Reaper, Reason and more, with no set-up required
- Modify your software - Eight encoders deliver instant control over DAW mixers, virtual instruments, and effects; user mappings can also be created for customised control
- Perform with a high-quality keybed - 49-note synth-style keyboard
- Play drums and instruments - 16 velocity-sensitive pads with polyphonic aftertouch for playing drums and instruments, as well launching clips and working with grids
- Powerful tools for creating chords and patterns - powerful built-in Arpeggiator and three Chord Modes to easily create musical progressions: Fixed Chord, User Chord, and Chord Maps
- Stay in key - Scale Mode locks notes on the keyboard into right key, and Chord
- Detector shows what chord is currently being played, with visual representation on the OLED display
- Split and Layer the keyboard - Split allows you to divide the keyboard into two independent zones, while Layer enables two MIDI channels to be played simultaneously using the same keys.
- Connect other instruments - connect directly to synths and other MIDI hardware with its full-size MIDI out port; it also works with your iPhone or iPad
- Create your own control surfaces - Launchkey is fully customisable; map MIDI parameters to pads and controls of your choice with Novation’s easy-to-use
- Components software
- Additional software - Comes with Ableton Live Lite and a collection of pro-grade virtual instruments
- Three years Manufacturer Warranty
Software Included
- Ableton Live 12 Lite
- GForce bundle:
- Oberheim SEM
- Oberheim OB-EZ
- GForce AXXESS
- Parallel Orchestras bundle by Orchestral Tools:
- Delicate Piano
- Flautando Strings
- Percussion FX
- Shadowy
- Paradox Texture
- Woodwind Parallax
- Klevgrand bundle:
- LUXE
- R0Verb
- Slammer
- Melodics curated lessons
Product Hardware Specifications
- 49 keys
- OLED display
- 16 RGB backlit velocity sensitive pads – with proprietary FSR technology
- 2 pad page buttons
- Scene Launch / Func buttons
- Pitch bend and modulation wheels
- 8 encoders
- 2 encoder page buttons
- 9 faders
- 9 faders buttons
- 5 pin MIDI out socket
- Capture MIDI/Undo/Quantise/Metronome buttons
- Scale/Chord Map/Arp/Fixed Chord/Settings/Shift buttons
- Octave up/down buttons
- Play/stop/record/loop button
- Track navigation buttons
- USB C socket
- Sustain pedal 1/4” jack socket
- Kensington security slot
Power Requirements
- USB bus powered
- Power supply not included
Other
- Weight (without accessories): 4.08kg/9.00lbs
- Weight (with accessories): 4.12kg/9.08lbs
- Height: 93mm/3.66"
- Width: 730mm/28.74"
- Depth: 263.5mm/10.37"
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