ALESIS QX49 MIDI Controller Keyboard

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The QX49 provides keyboard players with a full compliment of controls including pitch and modulation wheels, octave up/down buttons and the ability to send program changes directly from the keys. The QX49′s keyboard can even be split into sections to control multiple instruments at once!
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Roland’s A-300PRO MIDI Keyboard

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Inspiring feel and response for serious players. Superior key mechanism provides aftertouch and and increased sensitivity for a wide range of expression. Reliable FPT (Fast Processing Technology) for stable, high speed, low latency, and low jitter MIDI transmission. 8 Dynamic Pads for finger drumming and MIDI triggering, When working with an ACT (Active Controller Technology) enabled DAW like SONAR, parameters will remap automatically. Includes SONAR 8.5 LE and 3 high-quality and versatile virtual instruments for Mac and PC: Rapture LE, Cakewalk Sound Center, and Studio Instruments Drums.
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The Digitech VL3D Desktop Harmony Processor

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The VL3D offers 3-part harmonies, analyzing the singer’s voice and adding the most musically correct harmonies, while offering real-time pitch correction and gender control. With single-level programmability and 5 user-defined voicing patches, the VL3D can be programmed on the fly too. Effects include reverbs and a pre-effects section with warmth, compression, de-esser, and noise gate plus a humanizing mix for dialing in precise gender effects.
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Roland’s A-500S MIDI Controller Keyboard

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The A-500S is a 49 key, full-sized, simple MIDI keyboard controller designed by Cakewalk and Roland. It provides real keyboard feel and response in an ergonomic and portable design. Perfect for anyone making music at home or in a project studio with a computer, academic settings needing great sound at low cost, or live performances and mobile recording applications.
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The AKAI MPK61 MIDI Controller

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Each MPK controller combines a piano-style keybed with a bank of genuine Akai Professional MPC pads, assignable Q-Link controllers and key technologies from the iconic MPC family of music production workstations.
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PCR-300: USB MIDI Keyboard Controller

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Introducing the next generation of EDIROL’s popular MIDI keyboard controllers. In addition to providing more physical controls than previous models, the PCR-300 also offers new innovative and intuitive controls. This controller is solidly built, and optimized for both music production and live performance.
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AKAI’s LPD8 Laptop Pad Controller

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The LPD8 laptop pad controller is a USB-MIDI controller for musicians, producers, DJs and other music creators. It measures just over 30cm across and weighs less than 1 kg to easily fit into a laptop case, backpack or messenger bag for extreme portability. The LPD8 is based on Akai Professional’s MPC line of iconic music production stations. Producers who love the feel of the MPC and want to work with software on their computer will find that the LPD8 gives their laptop the controls they prefer over a mouse and keyboard. The LPD8 has eight orange light-up pads that are velocity sensitive for programming rhythmic or melodic parts. The pads can also send program-change information to software. Additionally, the LPD8 has eight assignable Q-Link knobs you can assign to virtually any parameters in their software for hands-on control.
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Akai’s APC40 – the Ableton Performance Controller

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As seen in BPM Magazine… Because Akai Professional and Ableton designed the APC40 specifically for Ableton Live, you don’t need to map its controls to talk to the software. The APC40 is the link between human and computer that perfectly balances analytical parameter control with creative expression.
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