M-Audio Keyrig 25

M-Audio Keyrig 25 Description

The M-Audio KeyRig 25 turns your Mac or PC into a mobile keyboard workstation. Featuring a compact 25-note USB MIDI keyboard and the award-winning Key Rig software for the PC, KeyRig 25 makes it easy to compose and perform computer-based music anywhere you want. Play Key Rig’s virtual instrument sounds, or audition loops and compose songs with Pro Tools M-Powered, Ableton Live Lite (included) or other music-creation programs. The keyboard also provides an easy way to harness the power of Apple GarageBand’s 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.

Features

• 25-note, velocity-sensitive synth-action keyboard
• assignable volume slider
• modulation and pitch bend controls
• eight fully assignable knobs and buttons
• octave +/- buttons
• sustain pedal input
• powered via USB or external 9V DC adapter (sold separately)
• built-in 16 channel MIDI interface
• instant installation on Mac OS X and Windows Vista & XP computers—just plug and play
• includes award-winning M-Audio Key Rig software (PC only) featuring:
  • four top-quality virtual sound modules: SP-1 Stage Piano, MS-2 Polyphonic Synthesizer, MB-3 Tone Wheel Organ and GM-4 General MIDI
  • use stand-alone or with a sequencer
  • variable velocity and controller settings
  • split and layer modules for performance combinations
  • module and master effects processors
  • compatible with most popular software
• includes Ableton Live Lite music creation software

It’s 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 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 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. 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.There’s also a master effects section that further processes the combined output of all modules.

Flexible Mixing and Assignment

You get an internal mixer and assignment controls that allow you configure independent MIDI channels for each module. But that’s 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-Audio’s 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. 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.

Compatibility

• MME
• Mac OS X Core MIDI

Minimum System Requirements

• PC
  • KeyRig 25 keyboard
  • Windows XP (SP 2)*
    • Pentium 3 800MHz or higher
    • 256 MB RAM
    • DirectX 9.0b or higher
  • Windows Vista (32-bit)**
    • 1 GHz Intel or AMD processor
    • 512 MB RAM**
  • One native USB port
  • Key Rig software (PC only)
    • Pentium® III 500 MHz or AMD7 (P4 / Athlon 1 GHz or faster recommended)
    • 256 MB RAM
    • 600 MB free hard disk space
    • Windows® XP*
    • VST 2.0 compatible host software
    • CD-ROM drive for installation
    • Internet connection (on any computer) for software activation
    • ASIO-compatible soundcard for stand-alone operation
• Mac
  • Macintosh G3* 800/G4*** 733MHz or higher (CPU may be higher for laptops).
  • OS X 10.2.8 w/ 256 MB RAM.
  • OS X 10.3.4 or greater w/ 512 MB RAM.

*Home and Professional Edition only. Windows Media Center Edition is not currently supported.
**Windows Vista Home Premium, Business and Ultimate require 1 GB RAM.
***Native USB port required; G3/G4 accelerator cards not supported.