Ableton Live 12 Suite with Novation Launchkey Mini Mk3 Bundle

This great bundle includes the Novation Launchkey Mini Mk3 controller with the upgrade to Live 12 Suite from the included Live Lite.

Please note that you will need to install and authorise Ableton Live Lite first and then install and authorise the upgrade software to the full version using the provided serial number.

Package consists of:

• 1 x Ableton Live 12 Suite Upgrade from Live Lite (Download)
• 1 x Novation Launchkey Mini MK3 USB Midi Keyboard Controller

Ableton Live 12 Suite Upgrade from Live Lite (Download)

What is Ableton Live?

Live is fast, fluid and flexible software for music creation and performance. It comes with all kinds of effects, instruments, sounds and creative tools – everything you need to make any kind of music.

Create with Live With
Live’s two modes of working, and a ton of creative tools and sounds with endless ways to combine them, the only limit on your music is your imagination.

Session View lets you sketch ideas fast: play, mix and match MIDI and audio loops of different lengths and tempos without ever stopping the music. The Arrangement View is where you organise music along a timeline and build sections of your song. Or record an arrangement directly from the Session View and improvise a finished composition.

Live has the tools to both capture your ideas and discover ones you never expected. Record hardware synths, software instruments, guitars, vocals or any audio from the real world. Combine the best of multiple audio or MIDI passes into your perfect take with Live’s new comping feature. Use MIDI Transformations to add variations to your patterns, or MIDI Generators to create new ideas that you can turn into your own. And find presets and sounds comparable to the ones you’re working on with Sound Similarity.

Live’s synthesizers offer a full spectrum of sound using wavetable, FM, subtractive, granular and analog- and physical-modeling architectures. A pair of sampling devices bring built-in slicing and warping, as well as multisampling and extensive sound-shaping capabilities. MIDI effects let you manipulate notes, and a rich range of clean to characterful audio effects help you tidy up your mix or make a creative mess. Live 12’s new devices include Roar, a multi-stage saturation and coloring effect, and Meld, an expressive 12-voice MPE-capable synthesizer with highly versatile twin oscillators.

Every edition of Live includes the Core Library, with vintage synths, analog drum machines, keys, multi-sampled drums, and much more. Live 12 adds Lost and Found, a collection of unique foley recordings and DIY multi-sampled instruments, Performance Pack, a collection of Max for Live devices designed for live performance, and two drum Packs from Sound Oracle that put the creative power of his authentic hip-hop and trap beats in your hands.

Perform with Live
On stage you can trigger, resequence and remix your music in real time. Use flexible MIDI mapping to set up almost any part of Live for hands-on tweaking with your controller. You can design your own unique combinations of instruments and effects, and use up to 16 Macro knobs to control any number of parameters. Find settings you like and save them as Macro snapshots to create builds, drops and instant variations during your performance.

Use Live to pull your show together. Control external hardware, integrate outboard effects or mixing desks. Improvise on your own, resample sounds, or process audio played by others, all in real-time. And Live can be a dynamic part of the band — with tempo following it can listen to incoming audio and adjust its tempo in real time. DJs can even use Live as a tempo-synced FX box.

Connect, Extend And Customize
Not only does Live come with everything you need, you can use it almost any way you want. Connect Live to any MIDI controller – even MPE-compatible hardware, which lets you add bends, slides and pressure to individual notes in a chord, make subtle expression variations and create evolving sonic textures with your hands.

Extend your setup using Ableton Link, technology built into Live that keeps multiple devices in perfect time over a network connection. It makes it easy to play alongside other music applications like Reason, Serato and an ever-growing number of iOS apps and Link-integrated hardware. And with Note, our iOS app designed for sketching musical ideas, you can start a track on the go and continue working on it in Live.

Even more imaginative ways to connect and customize are made possible through Max for Live, which brings the Max programming environment directly inside of Live. It lets you customize many of Live’s devices, build your own from scratch, and even hack how Live works. You can connect Live to lights, cameras, sensors, surround-sound setups and more. And explore a world of ready-made instruments, effects and tools produced by the Max for Live community.

Live 12 Suite Key Features

• Multitrack Audio recording and MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
• Unique Session View for nonlinear composition, flexible performance and improvisation
• Real-time warping of audio: automatically sync music and loops, regardless of tempo
• MIDI-mappable controls for hands-on creation onstage or in the studio – plus automatic mapping for popular hardware controllers
• Comping: select and combine the best of multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance.
• Linked-track editing: link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously.
• Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.
• Audio-to-MIDI conversion tools: extract harmony, melody or drums from an audio sample and convert it into MIDI.
• Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal
• Note chance and velocity chance: set the probability that a MIDI note or drum hit will occur and define ranges for velocity probability to generate pattern variations and humanize dynamics.
• Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device with Instrument Racks
• Combine MIDI effects into a single device with MIDI Effect Racks
• Comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering
• MIDI Transformations and Generators: use Transformations to create a variety of simple or complex variations of your MIDI clips, or conjure up playful and original ideas with Generators.
• Sound Similarity: start with a sample and tell Live’s browser to find comparable sounds and instrument or drum presets.
• Advanced sampling and slicing tools
• VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support
• MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real time for more expressive instrumental performances.
• Groove engine to apply swing to audio or MIDI, or extract rhythmic feel from other audio files
• Import video as a clip and save modified video and audio
• Time signature changes
• Built-in Max for Live software with more instruments, audio and MIDI effects, and the ability to customize Live

Instruments, Effects And Sounds

• 20 instruments: Wavetable, Operator, Analog, Meld, Sampler, Simpler, Granulator III, Drift, Electric, Tension, Collision, Bass, Poli, Drum Rack, Drum Synths, Impulse, CV Instrument and CV Triggers, Instrument Racks and the External Instrument device
• 58 Audio and 14 MIDI effects, including Roar, Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Time and Spectral Resonator
• 14 MIDI Tools
• 71+GB of loops and samples

Technical Feature Spec / Compatibility

• Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
• Automatic plug-in delay compensation
• Ableton Link integration
• MPE support
• MIDI remote control instant mapping
• MIDI output to hardware synths
• MIDI Clock/sync
• Generate or receive Pitch, Control, Clock and Trigger CV
• Multicore/multiprocessor support
• WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support
• Unlimited Audio and MIDI tracks
• Unlimited Scenes
• 12 Send and return tracks
• 256 Audio inputs, 256 outputs
• Rex file support
• POW-r dithering
• Groove Pool and extract groove
• Capture MIDI

Novation Launchkey Mini MK3 MIDI Controller Keyboard

Launchkey Mini is Novation’s most compact and portable 25-mini-key MIDI keyboard controller. It gives you everything you need to start creating in Ableton Live - and it’ll fit in your bag.Launchkey Mini is Novation’s most compact and portable 25-mini-key MIDI keyboard controller. It gives you everything you need to start creating in Ableton Live – and it’ll fit in your bag. Make tracks anywhere with Launchkey Mini’s deep, intuitive Ableton control, arpeggiator, Fixed Chord mode, MIDI out, and tons of sounds in the box.

Get Creative
Get new melodies, rhythms and sounds flying from your fingertips with Launchkey Mini’s easy yet powerful arpeggiator. Fixed Chord mode takes your ideas further, adding a customisable fixed chord shape that follows you up the keyboard. Add dynamic, expressive rhythms with 16 super-sensitive pads for drumming and clip launch.

Plug straight into Live, get your ideas down and create - Launchkey Mini gets any track moving.

Your Tracks, Your Way
Step back from the screen and feel the beats. Launchkey Mini’s deep and intuitive integration with Live lets you move where the music takes you. Transport, device and mixer controls mean fewer mouse clicks. Device macros and mixer controls mean more hands-on control of your music. Launchkey Mini puts the sounds from your head into your hands.

However You Want, Wherever You Want
Launchkey Mini comes with everything you need to make tracks in the box, including sounds, instruments and effects from AAS, Softube, Spitfire Audio, XLN Audio and Klevgrand – plus membership of Novation Sound Collective. Throw all this content into the included copy of Ableton Live Lite, or use Launchkey Mini’s integrations with Logic, Reason or any HUI compatible DAW.

It’s An Instrument - Play It
Launchkey Mini features a completely new mini-keymech – our finest to date – and is great to play. Two touch strips for pitch and mod let you really feel your sounds. The 16 RGB pads are super-sensitive for precise, dynamic and nuanced drumming. Connect your sustain pedal and add even more expression to your playing. Launchkey Mini feels as good as it looks.

You’ll also benefit from a three-year warranty, award-winning customer support and membership of their Sound Collective - offering new, free content every couple of months.

Warranty
Enjoy Three Years Of Warranty. Wherever you happen to be in the world, you can rely on a three-year warranty if any Novation hardware needs repairing or replacing due to a manufacturing fault.

Key Features

• Deep and intuitive Ableton Live control - including device macro control, track select, record, capture MIDI, clip and scene launch, stop/mute/solo, volume, pans and sends.
• Creative arpeggiator – easy to use but deeply controllable: change rhythm, beat, pattern, octave, gate and more.
• Fixed Chord mode – play a chord with one finger - assign a fixed chord shape to the keys and it’ll transpose as you move up and down the keyboard.
• MIDI Out – take Launchkey Mini anywhere, send arps and program changes to your hardware synths, or add keys to your groovebox directly over MIDI.
• Hardware - our finest mini keymech to date, 16 velocity-sensitive RGB, eight rotary controls, pitch and mod touch strips, and sustain input.
• Included sounds, instruments and effects - AAS Session Bundle, Softube Time & Tone, exclusive Spitfire Audio LABS - Expressive Strings instrument, Klevgrand DAW Casette and R0Verb, and get one XLN Addictive Keys instrument from choice of four the first time you register a product with us.
• Logic, Reason or HUI - Launchkey Mini also has excellent integrations with Logic and Reason, as well as any HUI compatible DAW.
• Ableton Live Lite in the box - Giving you everything you need to start making tracks right away.

What’s In The Box

• Novation Launchkey Mini [MK3]
• 1 x USB Cable

System Requirements
The easiest way to check that your computer’s operating system (OS) is compatible with the Novation Launchkey Mini [MK3] is to use our online OS Checker

Technical Specifications

Product Hardware Specifications

• 25 x Mini-keys
• 1 x Touch Strip for Pitch-bench with centre zero
• 1 x Touch Strip for Modulation
• 8 x Knobs
• 16 x RGB Backlit, Velocity Sensitive Pads
• Transpose Buttons
• Octave Up/Down Buttons (with Preset function as shift)
• Play and Record Buttons
• Arp and Fixed Chord Buttons
• Stop/Solo/Mute Button (Ableton Live specific function)
• Scene Launch Button (Ableton Live specific function)
• 3.5mm jack socket for MIDI Out (MIDI din break-out cables NOT included)
• USB Socket
• Kensington MiniSaver Slot
• Midi Channel Selection (Function accessed with Shift)
• Capture MIDI function (Function accessed with Shift) (Ableton Live specific function)
• Tracks function (Function accessed with Shift)
• Scene Down function (Function accessed with Shift) (Ableton Live specific function)
• Scene Up function (Function accessed with Shift) (Ableton Live specific function)

Comprehensive DAW Integration

• Scripts for Ableton, Logic and Reason (Device Control for Ableton, Logic and Reason)
• All other DAWs through HUI i.e. Pro Tools, Reaper, Studio One
• Take control of Volume, Pan, Sends, Record, Play, Preset and Assign Custom Mapping

Ableton Integration

• Volume, Pan, Sends A and Sends B through knobs
• Record and Play
• Assign Custom Mapping to knobs and pads
• Track navigation

Ableton specific integrations such as

• Device Control
• Capture MIDI
• Clip Launch
• Clip Stop
• Scene Launch
• Scene Navigation
• Track Solo/Mute

Arpeggiator

• Creative Arpeggiator with Mutate Mode and Deviate Rhythm
• Mode: Up, Down, Up/Down, Played, Random, Chord, Mutate
• Rate: ¼, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and all associated triplets
• Octave: 1, 2, 3, 4
• Rhythm: o, oxo, oxxo, Random, Deviate
• Latch: on/off
• Tempo, Swing and Gate through pots when pressing ‘Arp’
• When Mode is set to Mutate, access all Mutate possibilities through the pot while pressing ‘Arp’
• When Rhythm is set to Deviate, access all Deviation of the rhythm through the pot while pressing ‘Arp’
• 3 x symbols at the left side of the keyboard reserved for future arp updates

Fixed Chord

• Fixed Chord, to play chords with one finger

Software Compatibility

• Ableton Live Lite is included If you already have Ableton Live it must be version 10 or greater to work with Launchkey Mini. Launchkey Mini will also work as a standard MIDI controller.
• Logic script, Reason script; all other DAWs through HUI i.e. Pro Tools, Reaper, Studio One

Power Requirements

• USB bus powered
• Power supply not included

Product Dimensions

• 330mm length x 172mm depth x 31mm (40mm including knob-caps) height