KORG MKEYAIR25 25-Key Bluetooth and USB MIDI Controller

Vendor: KORG
Description KORG MKEYAIR25 25-Key Bluetooth and USB MIDI Controller The microKEY Air-25 made by Korg is professionally designed featuring a set of 25 velocity-sensitive Natural Touch mini-keys, it is a slim MIDI controller that comes along...
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KORG MKEYAIR25 25-Key Bluetooth and USB MIDI Controller

The microKEY Air-25 made by Korg is professionally designed featuring a set of 25 velocity-sensitive Natural Touch mini-keys, it is a slim MIDI controller that comes along with tap tempo, arpeggiator, and capable to sustain the functions. If you wish, you are capable to bus-power this unit with the use of the USB port, but the microKEY Air also comes featuring Bluetooth capabilities, that gives you the capability to connect wirelessly to Mac and iOS devices. Hooked up in such a fashion, the keyboard is possible to last up to 30 hours on two AA batteries (alkaline are recommended).

This microKEY Air is biult armed along with an expressive joystick that is allowing you to transmit pitch-bend, modulation, and control-change commands capable of enhancing your MIDI performances. By the time the arpeggiator is on, the function of the joystick changes, which enables you to switch between the three different arpeggio types (up, trigger, and down), for controlling the duration of the arpeggiated notes, and for engaging the latch function--thereby allowing you to sound an arpeggio even after you take your hand off the keyboard. A Sustain/Tap button is intended for giving you the ability to apply sustain to your performances as a pedal would. However, by the time the arpeggiator is on, this control transmogrifies into a tap button that is giving you the capability to set the tempo of the arpeggio. The Key Transpose feature is enabling you to pitch the notes up or down in intervals of semitone steps, and octave-shift selectors let you extend the note range of the keyboard by 4 octaves in either direction at the same time.

The controller also comes including five virtual instruments (Korg Legacy Collection, UVI Digital Synsations, AAS Ultra Analog Session, AAS Strum Session, and AAS Lounge Lizard Session) and two apps (Korg Module Le for iPhone and Korg Module Le for iPad). Finally, purchasing the Korg microKEY Air will allow you to download a limited version of Propellerhead's Reason, or to apply a $50 discount towards Ableton Live.

Controller

  • USB-powered by your computer, iPad, or iPhone
  • Bluetooth compatibility with Mac and iOS devices
  • 25-key, velocity-sensitive Natural Touch mini-keyboard
  • Expressive joystick transmits pitch-bend, modulation and control-change commands
  • Sustain/Tap button can add sustain to notes as a sustain pedal would. When the arpeggiator is on, this becomes a tap button that allows you to set the tempo of the arpeggio by pressing this button several times at the desired interval
  • Octave Shift and Key Transpose features allow access to the full MIDI note range
  • Joystick and sustain/tap button command settings can be edited using the Korg Kontrol Editor from the Korg website

5 Virtual Instruments Included

  • UVI's Digital Synsations module provides sampled emulations of classic digital and hybrid synths from the early 1990s
  • Lounge Lizard Session, the sound module from Applied Acoustics Systems, provides expressive electric piano sounds
  • Applied Acoustics Systems' Strum Acoustic Session is a physical-modeling software synthesizer that lets you "play" acoustic guitar parts with the expressiveness of an acoustic instrument
  • Ultra Analog Session, also by Applied Acoustics Systems, is an analog-modeling synthesizer featuring analog-style synth sounds
  • Korg Legacy Collection-M1 Le software synthesizer brings the sounds of the M1 music workstation to your computer

Korg KONTROL Editor

Korg KONTROL Editor MIDI-mapping software allows you to set the keyboard to respond to one of eight distinct velocity curves, or set a fixed velocity value. This is useful in customizing the microKEY Air to your personal playing style

USB / MIDI Controller
Keyboard 25 Mini Keys
MIDI Control Surfaces 1 x Wheel (Pitch-Bend)
1 x Wheel (Modulation)
Performance Functions Octave Shift
Connectivity
I/O 1 x USB Type-B 
OS Compatibility macOS 10.8
iOS 8 or Later
Windows 7 or Later
Wireless Transmission Bluetooth LE
Power
Power Options Battery, USB Bus Power
Operating Current Consumption 100 mA
Battery Type 2 x AA
Physical
Dimensions (W x D x H) 15.6 x 5.1 x 2.1" / 395.0 x 131.0 x 52.0 mm
Weight 1.5 lb / 670 g