Novation Launchkey 25 controller keyboard with 25 velocity sensitive keys, fader, data knobs and two wheel controllers. Includes Ableton Live Lite, V-Station, Bass Station synths and 1 GB of samples, but also Focusrite Midnight Plug-In.
Note this is the MK1 version without RGB coded pads and which are not touch-sensitive.
- BargainMad
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h4music
13 Nov 15#1
I have this and its fab... works with pc, Mac and iPad
GPDawes
13 Nov 15#2
Anyone know how it connects to an ipad?
paulj48 to GPDawes
13 Nov 15#4
you use the camera connection kit (as it doubles as a midi connector) I have an electric piano connected to an iPad this way, I used a genuine lead for 100% assurance it would work but there are cheaper 3rd party offerings.
neutech to GPDawes
14 Nov 15#13
Use a lightning to female usb lead look for ipad camera adapter lead.
furq
13 Nov 15#3
Price is plus postage, but I bought one - thanks.
chrisredmayne
13 Nov 151#5
the video had it on 3ith an iPad it looks great, can't see any Android app though so I doubt it works for that :-(
gaijintendo to chrisredmayne
23 Nov 15#18
Marshmallow makes some big improvements on the audio side of things, but android has been a fairly high latency prospect for developers. I am with you on wanting better support!
Keeleyc
13 Nov 15#6
Sorry to sound thick, but were buying my daughter a home recording studio for Christmas that connects to pic. Is this something that you would use to make your own music to record? I know nothing about these thing? Thanks in advance x
chrisredmayne to Keeleyc
13 Nov 15#7
yeah watch the video on the link
rev6 to Keeleyc
13 Nov 15#8
It's just a MIDI keyboard, it makes no sound itself and has no record functionality. You need other software/hardware to do that.
jevtamsn
13 Nov 15#9
You get a couple of very good synths with the keyboard and also a DAW/ sequencer. Sound-wise, there are thousands of free quality samplers, sound generators and effects that mostly come as VST plugins which work as instruments/fx in your multitrack software. Check:
KVRaudio.com for these and http://www.reaper.fm for a pro but free DAW.
matthat
13 Nov 15#10
I am also interested in getting this for my daughter - probably go for the Novation Launchkey 49 - but it does not sell it's self as it's not clear what you can do with it, and the video is very inconclusive!
rev6 to matthat
13 Nov 15#11
You use them to control software/synths like Ableton Live, Cubase, etc.
Rich44
13 Nov 15#12
Brilliant stuff Novation makes quality gear
neutech
14 Nov 152#14
Be good if hotukdeals had an pro audio section for logic/Ableton/cubase/fruity vst/au users
forcedv
23 Nov 15#15
isn't the 49 better value?
montblanc
23 Nov 15#16
"Includes Ableton Live Lite, V-Station, Bass Station synths and 1 GB of samples" Ableton Live Lite is a Digital Audio Workstation software meaning you can record and arrange music tracks in it. The synths and the samples included (in conjunction with Ableton Live, or Kontakt Plaer, a piece of free software) will allow this keyboard to make a wide range of musical sounds and there's other free or inexpensive samples and vsts that can expand that range even further.
I think for anyone starting out from scratch there is a learning curve for this sort of thing, but at least Ableton Live has a really good help system and there's a ton of useful video tutorials.
haslitt
23 Nov 15#17
What would be an acceptable spec PC for setting up some home studio for kids to learn on? They have Macs at school, but that's out of our price range.
delusion to haslitt
23 Nov 15#19
A budget of around £300 would do it for the base PC (assuming you are building yourself), for basic functionality even less.
What I found back when I was using stuff like this is you needed very little to get up and running (E.g a 5-6 year old PC with 4GB of RAM and a dual core processor is enough for playing 1-2 tracks at any time), but to seamlessly play back a multi track project you need a good amount of RAM and a half decent processor or it would skip/buffer a lot during playback. You can get around this by exporting the track first and listening to the exported file.
Probably far more experienced people than me on here though that could be more up to date with their help.
If you have any other questions let me know
haslitt
23 Nov 15#20
Thanks! I'm guessing a quad core i5 and 8G RAM, plus an SSD, that seems to be what Mac people need to run Logic.
Franzkill
23 Nov 15#21
I have know idea what anything in the OPs description means!
CoopDog1993
23 Nov 15#22
Not sure if I should get this or
The AKAI MPK MINI MKII, not sure which would be better.
rev6
23 Nov 15#23
Good to know :smiley:
bradjparker
23 Nov 15#24
Perfect, been looking at this for some time. Voted hot. Thanks.
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Note this is the MK1 version without RGB coded pads and which are not touch-sensitive.
- BargainMad
All comments (26)
KVRaudio.com for these and http://www.reaper.fm for a pro but free DAW.
"Includes Ableton Live Lite, V-Station, Bass Station synths and 1 GB of samples" Ableton Live Lite is a Digital Audio Workstation software meaning you can record and arrange music tracks in it. The synths and the samples included (in conjunction with Ableton Live, or Kontakt Plaer, a piece of free software) will allow this keyboard to make a wide range of musical sounds and there's other free or inexpensive samples and vsts that can expand that range even further.
I think for anyone starting out from scratch there is a learning curve for this sort of thing, but at least Ableton Live has a really good help system and there's a ton of useful video tutorials.
What I found back when I was using stuff like this is you needed very little to get up and running (E.g a 5-6 year old PC with 4GB of RAM and a dual core processor is enough for playing 1-2 tracks at any time), but to seamlessly play back a multi track project you need a good amount of RAM and a half decent processor or it would skip/buffer a lot during playback. You can get around this by exporting the track first and listening to the exported file.
Probably far more experienced people than me on here though that could be more up to date with their help.
If you have any other questions let me know
The AKAI MPK MINI MKII, not sure which would be better.
Can I use this as a controller for it?