Arturia KeyLab Essential 49 Reviews

Good MIDI Controller, lacking some features!

I've bought this MIDI Controller for my home studio setup, mostly to use with Ableton Live.

The design (as with every Arturia product) is outstanding. Quality is also really good, but I'm missing more special functionalities to control the DAW. The actual DAW Command Center section is useless for me since I have Push2.

It would be great if they include the Arpeggiator function the KeyStep has into this controllers.

This midi keyboard is very good for it's price. It even works well in my Ableton Live 9. Midi-mapping also works fine with this keyboard.

The only bad thing with this, is that it takes some time to get going with it and use its functions. I haven't yet figured out how some of the settings works with my Ableton.

very good for the price, maybe the best option

very happy with the product. apart from the equipment, it worth the 200¤ just for the analog lab software. very good choice.

the only thing i didnt like maybe be feel of the faders, looks cheap and not all of them have the same toughness.

apart from that, excellent.