Your essential ingredients for creativity

Whether you’re a beginner producer or an experienced music maker looking for a refreshed setup, KeyLab Essential distills everything you want in a controller into a simple, fun, expressive keyboard for production and performance. Enjoy comfy keybeds, tactile DAW-integrated controls, and thoughtful layout that simply makes your creative life easier.

Advanced features, simple workflow

KeyLab Essential provides an array of useful & intuitive controls that’ll get the job done. Interact with encoders, faders, pads, and more in a way that makes sense for your setup, giving you a hands-on experience balanced with software flexibility.

The best DAW integration

Get creative right out the box with KeyLab Essential’s custom DAW scripts, bringing pre-mapped controls into your workflow with any major DAW. Not only that, but the KeyLab Essential controls work seamlessly with Analog Lab V, the included sound anthology plugin - letting you freely explore thousands of sounds old and new.

Your musical workhorse

For when you want to get experimental, find a new sound, or just need a bit of extra inspiration, KeyLab Essential has a few tricks up its sleeve. Create fun ever-changing melodies with the Arpeggiator, weave rich chord voicings with Chord play, and always stay in key thanks to Scale mode.

What’s new with MK3?

• A bigger display with 4 contextual buttons
  
• 5 dedicated DAW scripts, plus MCU & HUI protocols, for controlling any DAW
  
• Enhanced integration with Arturia Software
  
• Creative features: Scale mode, Chord Play, Arpeggiator (with presets), Hold function
  
• 2 Pad Banks (for finger drumming, clip launching, or User configuration)
  
• Bigger software bundle (Analog Lab V, Ableton Live Lite, NI The Gentleman, UVI Model D, Loopcloud & Melodics)
  
• Multi-purpose pedal input (Sustain, Footswitch or Expression)
  
• USB-C
  
• Eco-designed

6 titles giving everything to make music your own way - here’s what’s included:

• Analog Lab V software with 2000 synth & keyboard sounds
  
• Ableton Live Lite
  
• UVI Model D & Native Instruments The Gentleman pianos
  
• Loopcloud subscription
  
• Melodics subscription