The Novation Launchkey Mini mk3 is your ticket to on-the-go creation with Ableton. This miniature controller is über functional, has useful features, and easily fits in your backpack. It has 25 synth-action mini keys and 16 velocity-sensitive RBG pads that you can use to play your way. You can use the illuminated pads to play samples, trigger loops, and control drums. The Launchkey Mini mk3 USB Midi Controller is designed to work seamlessly with Ableton Live. Even if you use a different DAW, your new Launchkey will work with it. No matter what you’re creating, your Launchkey will handle it like a champion.
When you receive your Novation Launchkey Mini mk3, you’ll immediately have access to a free DAW and software bundle. With this software, you’ll have everything you need to start recording your own music. You’ll have access to:
Launchkey Mini is our most compact and portable 25-mini-key MIDI keyboard controller. It gives you everything you need to start creating in Ableton Live – and it’ll fit in your bag. Make tracks anywhere with Launchkey Mini’s intuitive Ableton control, creative arpeggiator, Fixed Chord mode, MIDI out, and tons of sounds in the box.
Get new melodies, rhythms and sounds flying from your fingertips with Launchkey Mini’s easy yet powerful arpeggiator. Fixed Chord mode takes your ideas further, adding a customisable fixed chord shape that follows you up the keyboard. Add dynamic, expressive rhythms with 16 super-sensitive pads for drumming and clip launch. Plug straight into Live, get your ideas down and create - Launchkey Mini gets any track moving.
Step back from the screen and feel the beats. Launchkey Mini’s deep and intuitive integration with Live lets you move where the music takes you. Transport, device and mixer controls mean fewer mouse clicks. Device macros and mixer controls mean more hands-on control of your music. Launchkey Mini puts the sounds from your head into your hands.
Launchkey Mini comes with everything you need to make tracks in the box, including sounds, instruments and effects from AAS, Softube, Spitfire Audio, XLN Audio and Klevgrand – plus membership of Novation Sound Collective. Throw all this content into the included copy of Ableton Live Lite, or use Launchkey Mini’s integrations with Logic, Reason or any HUI compatible DAW.
Launchkey Mini features a completely new mini-keymech – our finest to date – and is great to play. Two touch strips for pitch and mod let you really feel your sounds. The 16 RGB pads are super-sensitive for precise, dynamic and nuanced drumming. Connect your sustain pedal and add even more expression to your playing. Launchkey Mini feels as good as it looks.
Including device macro control, track select, record, capture MIDI, clip and scene launch, stop/mute/solo, volume, pans and sends.
Easy to use but deeply controllable: change rhythm, beat, pattern, octave, gate and more.
Play a chord with one finger - assign a fixed chord shape to the keys and it’ll transpose as you move up and down the keyboard.
Take Launchkey Mini anywhere, send arps and program changes to your hardware synths, or add keys to your groovebox directly over MIDI.
Our finest mini keymech to date, 16 velocity-sensitive RGB, eight rotary controls, pitch and mod touch strips, and sustain input.
Novation hardware owners get exclusive access to Sound Collective, bringing new, free content from our plug-in partners every couple of months.
Giving you everything you need to start making tracks right away.
Two months of Splice Sounds, AAS Session Bundle, Softube Time & Tone, exclusive Spitfire Audio LABS – Expressive Strings instrument, Klevgrand DAW Casette and R0Verb, and access one of four virtual keyboards when you register your first piece of Novation or Focusrite hardware.
Type |
Keyboard Controller |
---|---|
Number of Keys | 25 |
Type of Keys |
Mini-key, Synth action |
Velocity Sensitive |
Yes |
Pads |
16 x Velocity-sensitive RGB Pads |
Other Controllers |
Pitchbend Touch Strip, Modulation Touch Strip |
Encoders/Pots |
8 x Rotary Knobs |
Pedal Inputs |
1 x 1/4" (sustain) |
MIDI I/O |
1 x 1/8" (out) / USB |
USB |
1 x Type B |
Computer Connectivity |
USB |
Features |
Transpose, Fixed Chord, Arpeggiator |
Software |
USB |
OS Requirements - Mac |
OS X 10.11.6 or later, 64-bit |
OS Requirements - PC |
Windows 7 SP1 or later, 64-bit |
Power Supply |
USB bus powered |
Height |
1.22" |
Width |
12.9" |
Depth |
6.77" |
Manufacturer Part Number |
AMS-LAUNCHKEY-MINI-MK3 |