NOVATION LAUNCHKEY 49 MK3

​49 Key USB MIDI Keyboard


Expand Your Musical Vocabulary

Inspirational features include Scale Mode, Chord Modes and a powerful arpeggiator, which together extend your musical capabilities and let you create in new ways. Scale Mode transposes keys and pads played to notes in the scale selected; three chord modes let you trigger complex chords with one finger, while the powerful arpeggiator gets melodies moving, fast. Strum Mode, introduced with firmware v1.1, lets you strum chords, for even more playing potential.


Hardware Specifications:

• 49 velocity sensitive keys
• 16x2 char screen
• 16 RGB backlit velocity sensitive pads
• Pitch bend and modulation wheels
• 8 knobs
• 9 sliders (49/61 key models)
• 5 pin MIDI out socket
• Arm/select buttons (49/61 key models)
• Arp/scale/fixed chord buttons
• Octave up/down buttons
• Play/stop/record/loop buttons
• Track navigation buttons
• Capture MIDI/quantise/click/undo buttons
• Stop/solo/mute button
• Scene launch button
• Device select/device lock buttons
• USB B socket
• Sustain pedal 1/4” jack socket
• Kensington security slot


Software Compatibility:

• Works with Ableton Live 10 or later. Ableton Live 10 Lite included.
• Full integration with Logic and Reason, plus out of the box functionality with other DAWs including Studio One, Cubase and Pro Tools, via HUI.
• Launchkey also works as a standard MIDI controller.


Included Software:

• Ableton Live 10 Lite Industry-leading music creation software, with seamless operation with Launchkey.

• Serato Sample LE A powerful and intuitive sampler plugin to quickly find, chop, key-shift, and time-stretch samples.

• Splice Sounds Two-month membership. Get access to millions of high-quality, royalty-free one-shots, loops, and presets, with new releases daily.

• Spitfire Audio LABS Expressive Strings Exceptional strings samples made by musicians and sampling experts in London, for anyone, anywhere.

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

• Klevgrand R0Verb A hybrid between a simple reverb and a very complex delay in an easy-to-use plugin.

• Klevgrand DAW Cassette A plugin that emulates the sound of a tape deck, with accurate recreation of saturation, distortion, noise and wobble.

• AAS Session Bundle Keys, guitar and synth plugins for music makers, which provide essential sounds for your tracks.

• Novation Sound Collective A constant source of inspiration for Novation users in search of new sounds. Find regular inspiration with frequent new additions to the Collective, to continue your musical journey.



Power Requirements:

• USB bus powered
• Power supply not included