Novation Impulse 61 Ultra-Responsive Highly Expressive 61-key MIDI Keyboard

Get more creative. Impulse is Novation's ultra-responsive and expressive keyboard with loads of fully assignable controls. Designed for people who love to play keys, it's a pleasure to play and integrates seamlessly with Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools and other major music software. Novation has specifically designed the Impulse keyboard to let you create truly expressive performances. Ultra-responsive with semi-weighted action and aftertouch, its full-size piano style keys adapt perfectly to any instrument you want to play, including organs, synths and pianos. While you're playing, the unique High Rate Scan (HRS) technology will scan the keyboard 10,000 times per second to capture every nuance of your performance.

Novation Impulse 61 61-key MIDI KeyboardFeatures:

• Create Expressive Performances: Ultra-responsive, full-size, piano keyboard with semi-weighted action and aftertouch.
• Accurately Capture Your Playing: Our unique High Rate Scan (HRS) technology scans your keyboard 10,000 times per second to capture every nuance of your performance.
• Easily Assign All Controls: Easily control all major music software, including Ableton Live, Logic and Pro Tools, with Automap for instant hands-on DAW, instrument and plug-in control.
• Shape Your Sound: Endless smooth-action knobs, low-profile faders, assignable buttons and LCD feedback display for directly shaping your sound.
• Do More with Your Drum Pads: Velocity-sensitive pads for rolling and looping beats, designing arpeggios and launching clips in Ableton Live.
• Tough Enough to Tour: Solid and tough enough to handle the most demanding live situations.
• Plug-In and Play: Fully class compliant and USB bus-powered, so you can plug in and play on Mac or Windows without a power supply or drivers.
• Make Music Immediately: Comes with everything you need to start performing your music.
• Learn with Melodics: Free keys and pad drumming lessons with Melodics makes you get the most out of your controller straight out of the box.
• Produce Better Music: Mix and sculpt your sound using endless smooth-action knobs, low-profile 45mm faders, loads of buttons and a custom LCD screen. All controls work seamlessly with major music software and can be mapped to any parameter.
• Do More with Your Drum Pads: Play drums in real time with pressure-sensitive pads for rolling beats, looping drum samples and designing arpeggios. These pads also function as multicoloured clip launchers in Ableton Live, so you can tell whether clip is loaded (yellow), playing (green), or recording (red).
• Connect To Just About Anything: Impulse is class-compliant and USB bus-powered, so you can simply plug it into Mac or Windows and get started straight away, without the need for a power supply. Impulse is gig-ready, too; 5 pin MIDI outputs allow you to connect to your favorite synth or module.
• Addictive Keys: The Addictive Keys virtual instrument from XLN Audio is on the house when you register your controller keyboard or the Launchpad Pro. One full license per account is available for existing and new customers.
• Loopmasters: Now expanded from 1GB to a whopping 4GB, the Loopmasters sample library included with every Novation Product is packed with professional quality, royalty-free loops and one-shots. Encompassing all contemporary genres – from blues, funk and hip-hop to bass, techno and all flavors of house – and taking in a huge range of electronic and acoustic instrumentation, it's everything you need to start making music today!
• V-Station Plug-In: You'll also get an impressive library of free samples from Loopmasters, as well as our Bass Station and V-Station software plug-ins.

Make Music Straight Out of the Box
Ableton Live Lite comes in the box and integrates seamlessly with all the controls to provide:

• Mixer control (all channels.)
• Transport control.
• Clip launch (using Impulse's back-lit drum pads.)
• Scene launch.
• Plug-in/Device control.

You'll also get an impressive library of free samples from Loopmasters, as well as our Bass Station software plug-in, which recreates the sound of the legendary analogue bass synthesiser.

Impulse also gives you instant hands-on control of other major music software, including:

• Pro Tools: Mixer control (all channels), Transport control.
• Logic: Mixer control (all channels), Transport control, Plug-in instrument/effects control (instant control of Logic's own plug-ins and 3rd party VST/AU plug-ins.)
• Cubase: Mixer control (all channels), Transport control, Plug-in instrument/effects control.
• Reason/Record: Mixer control, Transport control, Instant control of rack devices (Thor, Dr Octo Rex etc.)
• Cakewalk/Sonar: Mixer control (all channels), Transport control, Plug-in VST instrument/effects control.