Novation SL61 MKIII

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This 61-Key MIDI Keyboard Controller is the perfect product for Producers and DJ's, with its absolute hardware control and one routable clock for the whole system so you can take control and keep everything running in time. Create your own templates restore them in the cloud with the components.

Absolute hardware control
Bring MIDI hardware and CV/Gate synths together by plugging them all into SL mkiii, taking total control directly from the internal eight-track polyphonic pattern-based sequencer.

Easily integrate hardware with your DAW
Do you use a DAW and crave integrating your favourite hardware? Well, you can have the best of both worlds. Make controlling your software easy by recording productions from a studio centrepiece.

The perfect controller for Live
We worked with Ableton to create an absolutely stunning keyboard controller for their Live music-making software. The five colour LCD screens give you full parameter feedback, enabling you to see everything you are controlling.

Internal eight-track pattern-based sequencer
Real time record or input notes per step. Play and edit your sequences directly from the keyboard. Record your movements as automation into the sequencer, bringing life to your production. The probability of a programmed step can be altered, bringing creative irregularity and extending the musical palette of the SL MkIII. The SL MkIIIs pads can now be used to make sequencer transposition a powerful performance tool.

One routable clock for the whole system
Whether you're in the box or outside the box, the MIDI and analogue clock and transport controls keep everything running in time.

Arpeggiator
Choose an arp type, set a sync rate, tweak the length, and then use the pads to design your rhythms in real time. Each of the eight parts now have individual, independent arpeggiators, for building complex polyrhythmic patterns. The new arpeggiator probability feature brings an element of randomness to each arpeggiator, turning SL MkIII into a generative and constantly evolving instrument.

Customisable templates
Highly customisable mappings for hardware and software easily control everything. Create your own templates in the software editor, and save them to the keyboard.

LED feedback
Work with scales and keys and set up multiple zones and layers on the keyboard. See everything instantly with vibrant on-key RGB LED feedback.

Comprehensive connectivity
USB; MIDI In, Out, Out 2/Thru; three pedal inputs; Analogue Clock Out; and two CV Pitch, Gate

Control all major music software
Your choice of music software is crucial to your creativity. SL mkiii's pads, buttons, eight faders and eight knobs take control of all major music software using incontrol. SL mkiii also works with any HUI-compatible DAW.

High-resolution scan
The SL mkiii has an exceptionally high scan rate of 10khz (10,000 times per second), giving the keyboard a huge dynamic range for expressive keyboard performance.

Keys for the player
The SL mkiii boasts our finest, most playable and expressive synth-style semi-weighted keybed, with a sprung action and our highest scan rate, all tuned to the needs of the experienced player. Its got aftertouch too, assignable to anything.

Selectable Velocity Curves
The Velocity Curves come to you from a Novation engineer whos been designing and playing keyboard controllers for two decades. Choose from a comprehensive selection of Velocity Curves to suit your playing style.

Pads
SL mkiii's velocity-sensitive RGB pads have multiple functions: they can be used for launching clips, as steps in the sequencer, they are perfect for the finger drummer, and have polyphonic aftertouch.

Backlit Pitch and Modulation wheels
Pitch and Modulation wheels have RGB leds that change colour to show what track you're working on. Brightness gives you the value of what you're changing.

Patterns
Allows patterns to be transposed across the octave range, to find the perfect pitch and experiment with ideas. Now it's possible to quickly offset the start and end points of a pattern together to explore variations and manage sequences.

Toggle swing per-part
With swing on or off per part, its possible to build contrasting layers of groove for more complex rhythmic results.

Pitch bend to CV
The pitch-bend wheel can now be mapped to the CV output, opening up more expression possibilities for modular synth users and other external hardware control applications.

Components
Components allows you to backup and restore your templates and sessions in the cloud, enabling access from anywhere in the world. All content can also be saved locally.