![]() KeyStep is all about spontaneity and immediacy, strengthening the link that musicians can experience with their performance and their public. Like its brothers BeatStep and BeatStep Pro, KeyStep is representative of a new breed of portable controller allowing musicians to free themselves from their computer, in particular in live conditions. A 32-slimkey keybed with velocity and aftertouch, an 8-mode arpeggiator, a polyphonic sequencer with up to 64 steps and 8 simultaneous notes per step. KeyStep is loaded with features aimed at boosting your creative freedom. KeyStep allows you to regain control over your instruments. However, few things are more frustrating than accumulating instruments without being fully able to use them. Having many devices, many plugins and many modules is a pleasure. Never before has a portable keyboard controller incorporated this quantity of features. KeyStep also integrates a socket for a sustain pedal, sync input and output to follow or send a clock signal, and MIDI input to use an external keyboard or use KeyStep as a MIDI to CV converter. The MIDI DIN output can be used to control any MIDI hardware instrument while the USB connection allows you to control your plugins and virtual instruments. ribbon signal to control an analog instrument or module. The three CV outputs send pitch and gate signals along with velocity, aftertouch or mod. It is compatible with practically all existing synthesizers, either analog or digital, hardware or software. KeyStep is made to widen the potential of your setup, regardless of what instruments compose it. Whether your setup is analog or digital, KeyStep will allow you to reach a whole new level of control and creativity. Going straight to the point, skating over the constraints and letting musicians focus on their art are KeyStep’s ambitions. The design of the KeyStep is based entirely on this vision. Sometimes, simplicity is the key to efficiency and the best way to materialize an idea into a sonic result. ![]() With KeyStep and its range of connections you can control any digital or analog synthesizer from the past, today and even tomorrow. Whatever your setup, KeyStep will merge into it to overdrive your workflow and effectiveness. ![]() KeyStep was imagined and designed to become the modern musician’s trump-card. Keystep is the perfect performance controller in a compact package. To say KeyStep is an amazing little controller does not say enough. But we take it further by giving you a wealth of connectivity options: USB MIDI (of course), standard MIDI in and out (check), clock sync and DIN sync jacks (yes!), and CV/GATE outputs, plus a separate, assignable modulation CV output that can be used with the mod wheel, velocity or aftertouch. These features alone would make KeyStep the best portable keyboard controller on the market. ![]() We also included the ability to record, overdub, and transpose your sequences in real time and still play the keyboard live.Īdd a flexible and fun arpeggiator mode and chord play mode and you are set for hours of musical adventures. You can choose gate times and swing settings instantly to change the feel of your sequenced performance on the fly. They also designed a new polyphonic step-sequencer with 8 programmable memories that you can recall at the turn of knob. The size, velocity and aftertouch of this new design provide the freedom of portability without sacrificing playability. The KeyStep controller does all this and more.Īrturia started by designing our own “slim key” keyboard action, balancing the best features of compact mini-keys with the musicality of full-sized keys into this new keybed. ![]() You need a portable USB MIDI controller but also want a keyboard that provides a musical playing experience? You have some MIDI modules you want to connect as well but don’t want the footprint of a large keyboard? You have modular and analog gear you want to control via CV/GATEs? You want a step sequencer with polyphonic capability that can sync to your favorite modern and vintage gear? If only a single piece of gear could do all of this… KeyStep is a new breed of portable musical tool combining the functionalities of a keyboard controller with a polyphonic step sequencer to control both analog and digital devices. Redefining the portable keyboard experience ![]()
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