Arturia"s MiniLab USB Controller was designed to marry the style you love with the hands-on control and portability you need to take your studio wherever you are inspired. Made for the on-the-go musician or the performer with a limited working space, the MiniLab gives you a great depth of features in a package that is portable, stylish, and sturdy.Control FreakMiniLab features 25 velocity-sensitive mini-keys alongside Aruturia"s special pitch and modulation touch controls, giving you maximum expression and playability in a highly portable package. 16 encoders makes sure you have everything you need to program or perform wherever life takes you. Two banks of 8 backlit performance pads, for 16 total, can easily be assigned as pads, MIDI CC buttons or Program change switches. The recessed full-sized MIDI jack will keep your connection safe and out of the way. Add to all this, a sustain pedal input jack and you have the premiere mobile keyboard solution.Thanks for the memoriesAll of this control is further expanded by having direct access to 8 user presets. MiniLab offers Arturia"s free MIDI Control Center software which lets you map parameters in a simple and easy way directly from your computer. Those presets are then stored in the hardware for instant recall.Power, Style and SoundThe power of the features and visual styling are obvious, but Arturia gave the MiniLab their award-winning Analog Laboratory 2.0 software so that it sounds good too. This extremely powerful software synthesizer solution with over 5000 classic synthesizer sounds from Arturia"s premier vintage analog recreations at your fingertips. All presets in Analog Lab 2.0 have been carefully selected from the Arturia Classic Synths: Mini V, Modular V, CS-80 V, ARP2600 V, Jupiter-8V, Prophet 5, Prophet VS, Oberheim SEM V and Wurlitzer V. These TAE powered sounds offer unparalleled audio quality. Analog Lab will take your sound and workfl