M-Audio Pro Tools Keystudio Package

Play, mix and record with no limits. 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.

Pro Tools Essentials Feature:

• 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 Feature:

• 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

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.

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 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.

Computer System Requirements:

Windows

• Windows XP* (SP3), 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
• Two native USB ports

*Home and Professional Editions only. Windows Media Center is not supported.

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
• Two native USB ports