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Akai - ADVANCE 49
Description
***INCLUDES USB CABLE ONLY!!! BUNDLED SOFTWARE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.***
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.
Sophisticated but Easy to Use
Dedicated physical controls are thoughtfully included, with RGB backlit, velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads on each keyboard surface. Rubberized pitch and modulation wheels provide simple, direct note manipulation with musically natural action. Easily-gripped, continuously-variable endless knobs let you make adjustments with granular or dramatic effect. Akai's custom semi-weighted, velocity-sensitive keybed supports aftertouch, making it the ideal keyboard for seasoned live performers and studio producers alike.
Everything You Need
Included with each Advance Keyboard is the Virtual Instrument Player (VIP) application. VIP gives you immediate access to any virtual instrument in your collection - with or without a DAW - a powerful way to play virtual instruments live or integrate them into a recording session.
VIP software users can also create set lists that provide on-demand access to your customized instruments for stage performance and studio work. By simply pressing a single button on an Advance Keyboard, you can adapt to song changes as the live performance progresses - without ever reaching for your computer. That's what you want!
You'll also love VIP's facilities for hyper-fast instrument and patch browsing, key zone splitting, layering of up to 8 instruments per VIP instance, expansive custom mapping capabilities, and support for any VSTi plugin. You can run as many instances of the Virtual Instrument Player as your computer allows. VIP runs as a VSTi, AU, or AAX plugin, allowing you access to VSTi's in virtually any DAW, such as Pro Tools, Logic Pro X and Ableton Live.
The Advance 49 Keyboard also comes with a 16GB download of over 10,000 sounds from industry-leading developers at AIR Music Technology, SONiVOX, and TOOLROOM RECORDS. This comprehensive collection of nine plugins provides you with an instant palette of contemporary, sought-after sounds for both live performance and studio production.
With the Advance Keyboards, you get uninhibited access to any virtual instrument in your library without losing focus of the instrument in front of you. Nothing else can do that for you.
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
* Available in 25-, 49-, and 61- key sizes
Virtual Instrument Player Software Highlights:
* Plays virtually every VSTi-compatible plugin
* Operates as a standalone virtual instrument player for your computer
* Also operates as a plugin within any AU, VST, or AAX compatible DAW
* Organizes your plugin collection with intuitive browsing by plugin, artist collection, instrument type, timbre, and more
* Access, edit, and mix up to 8 virtual instruments at one time
* Setlist feature lets live performers switch between patches from any plugin instantly from the keyboard
* Extensive key zone splitting, custom mapping, and instrument mixing options
* Pre-mapped to hundreds of industry-leading virtual instruments
* Unlimited instances of VIP may be run in a DAW
Dimensions (HxWxD): 88.4 x 749.8 x 292.6 mm (3.48 x 29.52. x 11.52 inches)
Weight: 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs)
