M-Audio KeyRig 49

The M-Audio KeyRig 49 turns your computer into a mobile keyboard workstation. The KeyRig 49 features a compact 49-note USB MIDI keyboard and the award-winning Key Rig software for the PC, M-Audio KeyRig 49 makes it easy to compose and perform computer-based music anywhere you want. Play Key Rigs virtual instrument sounds, or audition loops and compose songs with Pro Tools M-Powered, Ableton Live Lite (included) or other music-creation programs. The M-Audio KeyRig 49 keyboard also provides an easy way to harness the power of Apple GarageBands virtual instrument collection on your Mac. It connects via a single USB cable and works instantly with computers running Windows Vista and XP or Mac OS X.

Its All There In Black and White
The SP-1 Stage Piano module serves up grand pianos, Wurlitzer, classic electric pianos, FM, clavinet and more. Each preset on the M-Audio KeyRig49 can hold a combination of two instruments with individual settings for Mix, Octave, Detune, Velocity and Tone. Owing to a dual effects section, each preset also has its own effect settings including delay, chorus, phaser and more.

Brave New Synth
The KeyRig 49s MS-2 Polyphonic Synthesizer delivers a new, easy way to call up and edit great synth sounds. Each preset consists of sub-presets for each major section: filter, amp, mod and FX. With the M-Audio KeyRig 49, creating new sounds is as simple as combining these sub-presets in different ways and tweaking any associated parameters from there as desired.

Get Organized
The MB-3 Tone Wheel Organ authentically emulates the classic Hammond sound complete with rotary speaker. Standard features include nine drawbars that are pre-mapped to M-Audio brand USB MIDI controllers, percussion and variable key click, three chorus and three vibrato settings. Rotary speaker emulation includes tube overdrive, speed and tone controls to yield everything from glassy jazz chords to smoking rock leads.

Bring In The Band
The GM-4 General MIDI Module delivers 128 GM instruments plus a great GM drum kit. It instantly plays GM-compatible standard MIDI files from host applications and provides an extremely easy way of sequencing additional backing tracks.

Multiple Effects
Key Rig modules each feature their own dual effects processors for delay, chorus, phaser and more.Theres also a master effects section that further processes the combined output of all modules.

Flexible Mixing and Assignment
With the M-Audio Keyrig 49 you get an internal mixer and assignment controls that allow you configure independent MIDI channels for each module. But thats not all you can easily create splits and layers for things like left-hand bass with right-hand keys, piano/string layers and any other combination you can think of.

Use It Your Way
M-Audios virtual racks let you use them as stand-alone instruments or with most host sequencers. Lots of people, for example, are just taking their keyboard and laptop to live performances. The M-Audio KeyRig 2s compatibility with AU, VST and RTAS also means that you can use it as sound sources for your tracks in Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Ableton Live, and, well, pretty much any popular music software.