Throughout Arturia’s multi-decade tenure, the industry leader has represented the vanguard in multimode synthesis. Now, AstroLab 88 once again advances the state of the art in a dedicated studio and stage keyboard designed to bridge the infinite potential of virtual instrumentation with the reliability and hands-on tactility of well-designed, ergonomic hardware. Spec’d with Fatar’s premium, fully weighted 88-note TP-40 hammer-action keybed, AstroLab 88 will satisfy the most discerning professional pianists. Offering a near-endless sound-design palette, AstroLab 88 is loaded with over 1,600 instant-access presets, letting you deploy, tweak, and transition smoothly between iconic sounds from Arturia’s acclaimed V Collection and Pigments software instruments featuring breathtakingly authentic concert grand pianos, vintage keyboards, legendary synth textures, and more. AstroLab 88 also features an updated CPU for extended polyphony and improved load times of sample-heavy instruments. Also onboard are 450+ Artist Tribute presets that pay tribute to a cluster of creative musicians. Lastly, you can organize and edit your sounds using the AstroLab mobile app and create custom sounds for AstroLab with Analog Lab Pro companion software. A seamless integration of hardware and software, AstroLab 88 delivers the best of both worlds!

Multidimensional sound in one instrument

A groundbreaking hybrid instrument that lets you bring the forces of Arturia’s vast proprietary software oeuvre to a performance setting without the need for a computer, AstroLab 88 occupies a unique niche in today’s high-end keyboard market. Gigging keyboardists, producers, and studio synthesists at Music Experience have found AstroLab to be a veritable powerhouse that brings real-time sound-sculpting prowess to Arturia’s lauded virtual instruments in a sleek, road-ready keyboard purpose-built for stage and studio. With massive storage space for presets, AstroLab’s powerful sound engine serves as the singular source for any of your carefully curated sounds from compatible VIs. On the top panel, eight knobs supply flexible macros that can be tailored to each preset, divided between four instrument controls and four effects controls. Additionally, each of the macro controls is color coded not only to display parameter status but also to support multi-part presets, allowing you to control one or both of a preset’s respective macros simultaneously.

AstroLab Connect: one app for comprehensive preset control

Across the sum of the Analog Lab, V Collection, and Pigments offerings, you’d be forgiven for wondering how the AstroLab’s streamlined interface accommodates such a diverse array of instruments. This is where AstroLab Connect enters the frame. This multi-platform mobile and desktop app lets you browse, organize, select, and even purchase new and existing sounds. It organizes them into playlists or sound banks to suit your needs. You can also broadly peruse information by category, style, and instrument. Detailed indexing tools are contrasted by a flexible, accommodating interface, making it painless to manage presets for dedicated set lists or performances, with further options that let you edit them straight from the app. Because Arturia outfitted the AstroLab with Wi-Fi capabilities to both produce its own network and connect to your smart device from a shared network, you’re always able to shape your sound.

A paradigm shift of form and function

A decidedly unconventional blend of standalone keyboard instrument and MIDI controller, AstroLab features exhaustive connectivity that includes MIDI I/O, USB-C, and a USB-A host port, as well as wireless control via Bluetooth Audio and Wi-Fi. Both sustain and expression pedal jacks are provided, along with an auxiliary audio input and XLR/TRS combo main outputs. Par for the course in a modern high-end keyboard. But it’s the innovative implementation of the cutting-edge software that drives it, and the advanced architecture that underpins it, that makes AstroLab able to fully exploit the seemingly limitless sonic possibilities of virtual instrumentation. Moreover, it streamlines the real-time performances of those sounds by eliminating the complexity of running a VI with a connected, synchronized computer onstage. And with immediate access to 10.000 playable sounds via Arturia software, you will never run out of high-quality sounds in the heat of a live gig or a pressure-cooked recording session. Power-packed and ready to rock, the Arturia AstroLab 88 raises the bar for stage piano performance. Get yours at Music Experience today!

Versatile sound design for any sonic style

With its ample opportunities for interoperative integration, the AstroLab’s bevy of onboard tools melds worlds of sound with ease. Its distinctive architecture includes dual split and layering modes that allow you to craft complex textures, patches, and soundscapes that combine sonics from all over time and space, like Pigments’ futuristic wavetable magic with painstakingly crafted analog monosynths from the V Collection. Plus, the AstroLab’s onboard expressive capacity and performance tools can be discerningly deployed to elevate any instrument, including built-in delays and reverbs, dual insert effects for each preset, pitch and modulation wheels, an arpeggiator, a looper, a sequencer, and even a vocoder. Furthermore, each of the auxiliary jacks that accompany the dedicated Sustain and Expression inputs can be custom-assigned to functions unique to the AstroLab’s presets, capable of accommodating both TS-switch and continuous-pedal use.

Engineered for live shows, optimized for studio coherence

Arturia designed the AstroLab to meet the multimode needs of the contemporary gigging musician, and the instrument’s focused yet pliable architecture is meant to seamlessly join the open-ended nature of the composition and ideation stages with the purposeful, pointed tools needed for studio recordings and live shows. Its 5-pin MIDI I/O lets you connect the AstroLab to control or be controlled by countless external devices, and Arturia envisions a world where the AstroLab’s studio MIDI functionality can be used for building and customizing patches within the capable VIs, ensuring the transition from sound shaping to live use is nearly flawless. This workflow allows you to mindfully build and adapt presets far earlier in your creative process, drastically reducing headaches and hassles when it comes time to arrange your desired set list.

What Arturia Says...

Designed for the live musician, AstroLab 88 puts impeccable performance sounds at your fingertips. With a premium hammer-action keybed and powerful software ecosystem, take your signature sounds to the stage and let nothing stand between you and your creative expression.

Go beyond Performance without limits

AstroLab 88 is more than a keyboard, it’s a creative launchpad. With a premium keybed, deep sound engines and forward-thinking ecosystem, it clears the path between studio and stage. No distractions. No compromises. Just your sound, fully realized.

Premium hammer-action keybed

Perform with piano-size keys and piano-like response. AstroLab 88’s weighted Fatar TP-40L keybed is built for demanding musicians who need that exceptional feel and control.

40 reference instruments

Discover over 1600 classic and modern sounds from a library of powerful instrument and synth engines built-in - true-to-life and deeply editable.

Studio > Stage continuum

From mobile sound management to Analog Lab integration, fully integrate AstroLab into your Studio or DAW workflow, then go live with all your custom presets.

Main features

From its responsive hammer-action keybed to an updated CPU for extended polyphony, AstroLab 88 is built for musicians who demand total creative freedom - on stage, in the studio, and everywhere in between.

Reference sounds

From essential performance instruments and true-to-life acoustic sounds to timeless synths and crisp digital landscapes - discover that perfect preset or edit and create your own via Analog Lab.