The French manufacturer’s flagship MIDI keyboard now includes an 88-key model with an “authentic piano feel.”
Arturia has launched an 88-key version of the KeyLab mk3, featuring notable upgrades. This model includes a premium Fatar TP/110 hammer-action keybed with weighted keys and channel aftertouch, which are not features available in the 49- and 61-key models.
Like its smaller siblings, the KeyLab 88 mk3 is equipped with 9 touch-sensitive potentiometers and faders, allowing you to tap a control and view its associated information on the KeyLab’s display without changing the value.
The KeyLab 88 is equipped with 12 velocity and pressure-sensitive pads, two mode wheels, and an extensive array of dedicated DAW controls, including essential functions for saving, undoing, redoing, and transport. It boasts a full-color 3.5″ screen, identical to the other mk3 versions, encircled by eight buttons and a dial that ensures precise navigation.
KeyLab 88’s Scale Mode will automatically adjust notes to a chosen scale, and its new arpeggiator can be used to create generative patterns that randomize parameters such as ratchet, octave shift and division time. There’s also a Chord Play mode for playing preset or custom chords with a single key.
KeyLab 88 mk3 is equipped with pre-mapped templates for many of the major DAWs, including Ableton Live, Logic Pro and FL Studio, and arrives with a generous software bundle that includes Ableton Live Lite, Analog Lab Pro, and a number of software instruments and effects. You’ll also get a subscription to sample library Loopcloud and tuition platform Melodics.
KeyLab 88 mk3 is priced at $1299 and is available in both black and white.