Launchkey is our intuitive and fully integrated MIDI keyboard controller for making tracks in Ableton Live and with your external equipment. The Launchkey experience is designed for players of all types and abilities. With Launchkey, regardless of experience, you can create and play your music like never before. With its various musical creation features, all of which can be used standalone, Launchkey removes barriers to creativity, and expands the musical vocabulary of even the most talented keyboardists.

Eight Scale modes guide you into new musical territory, by transposing keys played to notes in the scale selected. Simply choose your root note and your preferred scale, then play. Three Chord modes transform the keys and pads into an interactive surface of musical exploration, where every note played is tonally and harmonically linked. The arpeggiator lets you explore new melodies and find ideas quickly, while the mutate function reconstructs your patterns into exciting new forms.

61 velocity sensitive keys

16x2 char screen

16 RGB backlit velocity sensitive pads

Pitch bend and modulation wheels

8 knobs

9 faders

5 pin MIDI out socket

Arm/select buttons

Arp/scale/fixed chord buttons

Octave up/down buttons

Play/stop/record/loop button

Track navigation buttons

Capture MIDI/quantise/click/undo buttons

Stop/solo/mute buttons

Scene launch button

Device select/device lock buttons

USB B socket

Sustain pedal 1/4” jack socket

Kensington security slot

Power Requirements

USB bus powered

Power supply not included

Included Software 

• Ableton Live Lite – Quickly organise and arrange your sounds and start making tracks with this staple electronic-music-making software.

• Serato Sample LE – Slice, rearrange and manipulate samples in real time using Serato's legendary Pitch 'n' Time timestretching/pitchshifting algorithm.

• Two months Splice Sounds membership – Offering millions of high-quality, royalty-free one-shots, loops, and presets, with new releases daily

• Spitfire Audio LABS-Expressive Strings – Made exclusively for Launchkey MK3 owners, Spitfire Audio have taken their world-class strings samples and created an instantly playable, highly reactive instrument, designed to spark your creativity.

• XLN Addictive Keys – Access one of four virtual keyboards when you register your first piece of Novation or Focusrite hardware.

• Klevgrand R0Verb and DAW Cassette – High quality reverb and tape deck emulation plug-ins, to add some space or take your sound back to the golden age of cassette tapes.

• AAS Session Bundle – Three synths for music makers, providing staple sounds for your tracks.

• Sound Collective – Bringing Novation hardware owners a new free plug-in every couple of months