49-key velocity-sensitive, synth-action keyboard with Pro Tools Essential for creating music right out of the box.

Play, mix, and record with no limits with the Pro Tools KeyStudio keyboard. Turn your computer into a full-featured recording studio powered by the same M-Audio technology favored by music professionals to create, edit, and produce much of the world's most popular music. Inspiration hits now, not on schedule, which is why you need KeyStudio to turn your creative impulses into a professional-quality song. Be the keyboardist or the entire orchestra with the simple, yet high-quality 49-note touch-sensitive MIDI keyboard and included Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software, packed with 60+ different instrument sounds. Simply install, plug in and instantly create music—even if you've never recorded a note.

Professional-quality keyboard
Play piano, synths, and more on a great feeling, velocity-sensitive keyboard that features the same powerful M-Audio technology used by artists on stage and in pro studios worldwide.

Connect to a PC or Mac via USB
The KeyStudio 49 is a full-featured high-quality USB MIDI keyboard ideally suited for the vast Pro Tools set of musical instrument sounds. It also works with most other music tools for your Mac or PC—including GarageBand, music education, and composition software, and more.

Software instrument control
Bend a note or tweak a sound with additional on-board performance controls—all without moving your hands from the keyboard. Easily control volume, pitch bend, transpose, and modulation right from the keyboard surface.

Includes USB Micro high-performance audio interface
Plug in a microphone to add vocal tracks or connect headphones to listen right through your computer's USB port with the included USB Micro audio interface for Pro Tools M-Powered Essential.

Play, mix, and record with the creative power of Pro Tools
Create original, first-rate music right out of the box with this streamlined edition of Pro Tools, the platform many professionals use to record, edit, and produce much of the world's most popular music.

Over 60 virtual instruments
Play solo or add other instruments to your tracks using the 60+ different studio-quality instrument sounds included in the Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software. From piano, organ and synth to guitars, bass, strings, and percussion, Pro Tools offers the flexibility that other standalone keyboards can't match.

Create songs in minutes
Jump right in to making music of any style—from hip-hop and funk to pop, jazz, rock, and blues. Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software includes a vast library of templates and music loops so you can jam along with killer drum grooves or add your own percussion, bass, and instrument lines by recording your KeyStudio keyboard performance straight into Pro Tools M-Powered Essential. You'll have all the powerful MIDI editing tools, effects, and polish that pros use to make performances perfect.

M-Audio Pro Tools KeyStudio Keyboard Features:

• Pro Tools Essential DVD with over 5.5GB of instruments and loops
• 16 stereo/mono audio tracks
• 8 Instrument Tracks
• 8 MIDI Tracks
• Studio quality effects collection including reverb, chorus, delay, flanger, phaser, compression and EQ
• 3 effect Insert slots per track for up to 3 simultaneous effects
• Busses for group mixes/effect sends and Aux Tracks for effect returns—like on a real mixer
• 2 audio inputs / 2 audio outputs
• Over 60 virtual instrument sounds from piano and strings, to bass and drums
• KeyStudio 49 USB Keyboard
• 49-key velocity-sensitive, synth-action keyboard
• Assignable modulation wheel for effects
• Volume slider
• Pitch bend wheel
• Octave/transpose +/- buttons
• Sustain pedal input
• Holes for wire-framed music stand (sold separately)
• Power and connection via USB cable
• M-Audio USB Micro audio interface
• 1/8" stereo input with adjustable level input lets you record microphones, guitars, CD/MP3 players and more into Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software
• 1/8" stereo output for headphones or speakers

Order the Pro Tools KeyStudio today and you'll have all you need to instantly record quality music.

M-Audio Pro Tools KeyStudio Keyboard Specifications:

• Minimum System Requirements (PC)
• Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista 32/64 (SP1), Windows 7 32/64
• 1.8GHz multi-core processor (Intel)
• 1GB RAM
• 5400 RPM drive
• DVD-ROM drive
• 4GB hard drive space (additional space required for loop content)
• Two native USB port
• *Home and Professional Editions only. Windows Media Center is not supported.
• Product information and specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.
  
  Minimum System Requirements (Mac)
• OSX 10.5.5, OSX 10.6.1
• 1.8GHz multi-core processor (Intel)
• 1GB RAM
• DVD-ROM drive
• 5400 RPM internal system drive
• Additional/external drive not necessary
• 2 native USB ports