If you appreciate the full range of a piano keyboard in a lightweight package, the 88-note Keystation 88es is for you. You get great-feeling, semi-weighted action that’s velocity sensitive to convey all the nuances of your playing to your computer and most popular music education and studio software. The pitch and modulation wheels plus slider and buttons make it a great controller for playing and programming synths, samplers, drum sounds and more. At just 22 lbs., the Keystation 88es is equally at home on stage and in the studio. Class compliancy with Windows XP, Vista (32 bit), and Mac OS X ensures easy plug-and-play setup. It’s even bus-powered, so one simple USB cable is the only connection you need.

• 88-note velocity-sensitive, semi-weighted action
• pitch bend and modulation wheels
• volume/assignable control slider
• advanced function button for programming
• sustain pedal input (pedal sold separately)
• assignable data up/down buttons
• built-in USB MIDI interface
• MIDI out jack routes MIDI signals from keyboard or computer to external devices
• powered via USB or 9VDC power adapter (sold separately)
• Mac OS X and Windows XP class compliant for plug-and-play operation
• includes Ableton Live Lite music production software, so you can make music right away

• Intuitive audio recording and MIDI sequencing*
• More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*
• Includes two software instruments—Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*
• Supports VST and AU effects and instruments*
• Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF and WAV files for DJing and instant remixing
• Tweak Live’s controls in real time with any MIDI controller—just MIDI map it
• All editing of your musical creations are non-destructive so you can experiment without worries
• Integrated single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation
• Dedicated Instant Mappings for many of M-Audio’s controllers

* Live Lite is limited to eight tracks, four simultaneous built-in audio effects, four built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project. Live Lite 7 does not include video support, compressed audio support, or Complex warp mode.

Ableton Live Lite delivers much of the functionality of Ableton Live—the revolutionary, multi-award winning music production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise and edit your musical ideas in a seamless audio/MIDI environment. Live brings your acoustic, electronic and virtual instruments—as well as your digital audio recordings and MIDI sequences—together in a single interface with unparalleled ease of use.

Live Lite offers two main views—the Session View and the Arrangement View—that interact in a powerful and unique way, allowing you to create, produce and perform your music all in a single application. Here is the principle behind each view:

Live’s Session View acts as a musical sketch and launch pad, encouraging you to try out new ideas and improvise freely. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a loop, recording, MIDI file, complete song or any other musical element. These ideas can be recorded on the fly or dragged in from the Browser, combined and played in any order you wish.

The Arrangement View offers a timeline-based approach for traditional recording, MIDI sequencing, arranging, editing and other musical production tasks. And when you improvise in the Session View, all of your actions can be recorded into the Arrangement View, where they can be edited and perfected whenever you like.