AKAI ADVANCE 49 USB 49-KEYS MIDI KEYBOARD CONTROLLER

The Advance 49 from Akai Professional is a 49-key, USB MIDI controller that also features eight MPC drum pads with RGB back-lit illumination. The keyboard surface features an integrated high-resolution full-color 4.3-inch display, providing real-time control and feedback of all virtual instruments. The screen instantly adapts itself to the selected plugin's controls, delivering immediate 1:1 access to the instrument and various editable functions. Better yet, the Advance Keyboard works with any VSTi virtual instrument. Using the Advance Keyboard's custom-designed Virtual Instrument Player (VIP) software application, your entire VSTi library is controlled by one application. VIP operates as a plugin inside any major digital audio workstation (DAW) or as a stand-alone application on both Mac and Windows operating systems. Advance Keyboards Highlights: • Keyboards for advanced virtual instrument performance • Integrated 4.3-inch high-resolution full-color screen with dedicated interface buttons • Screen provides 1:1, real-time feedback of plugin parameters • Includes Virtual Instrument Player software for unprecedented virtual instrument preset management, control mapping and multi patch creation • 49 premium, semi-weighted velocity-sensitive keybed with aftertouch • 8 large, endless and continuously variable control knobs • 8 velocity- and pressure-sensitive MPC pads with RGB illumination • Dedicated pad bank, transport control, octave, and performance buttons • Note repeat, time-division, pattern arpeggiator, and tap-tempo buttons • Rubberized Pitch and Modulation wheels • Expression pedal and footswitch inputs • USB and 5-pin MIDI Input/Output for use with any MIDI capable software or hardware • Functions as a standalone controller • Included sounds: Vacuum Pro, Loom, Hybrid 3, Xpand!2, Velvet and Transfuser by AIR Music Tech, Eighty Eight Ensemble by SONiVOX and exclusive artist launch packs from TOOLROOM RECORDS (downloads). Plus 100s of other VIs and sounds from a growing list of partners, available for purchase, downloadable from the VIP Store • Available in 25-, 49-, and 61- key sizes