Ableton Live 12 Standard with Novation Launchkey 49 Mk4 Bundle

Using the Novation Launchkey 49 MK4 with Ableton Live 12 unlocks a seamless and intuitive music production experience, perfect for beginners and professionals alike. The Launchkey series offers a range of MIDI keyboards designed to integrate effortlessly with Ableton Live, providing hands-on control over your tracks, instruments, and effects. With features like velocity-sensitive pads, custom mappings, and dedicated transport controls, the Novation Launchkey allows you to create, perform, and produce music more efficiently.

Please note that you will need to install and authorise Ableton Live Lite first and then install and authorise the upgrade software to the full version using the provided serial number.

Package consists of:

• 1 x Ableton Live 12 Standard Upgrade from Live Lite (Download)
• 1 x Novation Launchkey 49 MK4 USB Midi Keyboard Controller

Novation Launchkey 49 MK4 USB Midi Keyboard Controller

Unleash your creativity with the Novation Launchkey 49—a versatile, all-in-one DAW controller featuring four octaves of semi-weighted keys and 16 patented FSR pads. Designed for finger drumming, clip launching, and more, the Launchkey 49 also includes a bank of nine faders and eight endless rotary encoders for seamless control over mixing, plugins, and performance. With its overhauled hardware and refreshed minimalist design, this next-generation Launchkey provides innovative ways to create music in your DAW, with hardware synths, or on your iPhone and iPad.

Key Features

• Comprehensive DAW Control: Effortless integration with Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Reaper, Reason, and more, with no setup required.
• Customizable Software Control: Eight encoders and nine faders provide instant control over DAW mixers, virtual instruments, and effects; create user mappings for personalized setups.
• Expressive Semi-Weighted Keybed: The 49-note keyboard with waterfall-style keys offers superb playability and feel.
• 16 Velocity-Sensitive Pads: Play drums, trigger samples, and launch clips with FSR pads featuring polyphonic aftertouch for enhanced expression.
• Advanced Creative Tools: Built-in arpeggiator and three Chord Modes (Fixed Chord, User Chord, and Chord Maps) make it easy to create complex musical progressions.
• Scale Mode: Locks notes to the correct scale and displays the current chord on the OLED screen, ensuring you stay in key.
• Split and Layer Functions: Divide the keyboard into two zones or layer two MIDI channels across all 49 keys for versatile performance options.
• MIDI Connectivity: Full-size MIDI out port connects directly to synths and other MIDI hardware; compatible with iPhone and iPad.
• Custom Modes: Fully customizable controls via Novation’s Components software, with up to four custom mappings for faders, pads, and encoders.
• Included Software: Comes with Ableton Live Lite and a collection of professional-grade virtual instruments.

Enhanced DAW Integration

The Launchkey 49 offers seamless integration with all major DAWs right out of the box, including Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubase, Reason Studios, Reaper, FL Studio, and Ardour. Experience a hardware-powered workflow that gives you full control over transport functions, timeline navigation, mixing, EQ, clip launching, and more. When using Ableton Live’s Session View or Logic’s Live Loops, the 16 drum pads double as Launchpad-style clip launchers with RGB backlighting that mirrors your DAW.

Our Best-Ever Keys and Pads

The upgraded keybed of the Launchkey 49 is sensitive enough for the most delicate passages, yet robust enough to withstand rigorous use. With 49 semi-weighted, waterfall-style keys, Launchkey delivers the power of a software-based workflow with the feel of a premium hardware instrument. The patented, velocity-sensitive FSR pads feature polyphonic aftertouch and radial sensors, ensuring tighter performances and more consistent sensitivity.

More Powerful Creative Tools

Launchkey 49’s creative tools are embedded within the hardware, ensuring a consistent experience whether you’re using your DAW, hardware synths, or mobile devices. Scale Modes allow you to lock your keyboard to one of 30 different scales, eliminating wrong notes and even mapping everything to just the white keys. Fixed Chord mode triggers full chords from a single key, while Chord Maps enable you to craft emotive progressions using the pads. The advanced arpeggiator offers endless ways to twist and mutate your sequences, sparking new ideas and inspiration.

Split and Layer Functions

Need to control more than one instrument at a time? Split the Launchkey 49’s keyboard into two zones, and play one with each hand—or layer two MIDI channels across all 49 keys and send the same notes to both.

Play Your Way with Custom Modes

Launchkey’s controls are fully customizable. Using the free Components software, you can configure the pads, faders, and encoders to behave exactly how you want with your software or hardware. Store up to four custom mappings and recall them instantly to control notes, MIDI CCs, or program changes.

Go Beyond the Computer

With a five-pin MIDI output, the Launchkey 49 easily connects to hardware synthesizers without needing a DAW. Combined with Components and custom mappings, you can control all the key functions directly from your keyboard. It’s also USB-powered and class-compliant, making it compatible with a wide range of music-making apps for iPhone and iPad, including the free Novation Launchpad app.

All You Need to Create

Launchkey 49 comes with everything you need to start making music right away. The included Ableton Live 12 Lite allows you to record and perform with up to eight tracks of MIDI or audio, and access a suite of instruments, effects, and creative tools that work perfectly with Launchkey. Additionally, you receive a selection of studio-grade effects and sounds from Novation and Focusrite, plus a curated bundle of software instruments.

Enjoy Three Years of Warranty

Wherever you are in the world, you can rely on a three-year warranty if any Novation hardware needs repair or replacement due to a manufacturing fault.

Bundled Software

• Ableton Live 12 Lite: A powerful tool for recording, producing, and performing music.
• GForce Bundle: Includes Oberheim SEM, Oberheim OB-EZ, and GForce AXXESS for iconic synth sounds.
• Parallel Orchestras Bundle by Orchestral Tools: Includes Delicate Piano, Flautando Strings, Percussion FX,Shadowy, Paradox Texture & Woodwind Parallax.
• Klevgrand Bundle: LUXE, R0Verb, and Slammer for advanced sound processing.
• Melodics Curated Lessons: Learn to play keys or pads with bespoke lessons designed for Novation users.

Product Hardware Specifications

• 49 keys
• OLED display
• 16 RGB backlit velocity sensitive pads – with proprietary FSR technology
• 2 pad page buttons
• Scene Launch / Func buttons
• Pitch bend and modulation wheels
• 8 encoders
• 2 encoder page buttons
• 9 faders
• 9 faders buttons
• 5 pin MIDI out socket
• Capture MIDI/Undo/Quantise/Metronome buttons
• Scale/Chord Map/Arp/Fixed Chord/Settings/Shift buttons
• Octave up/down buttons
• Play/stop/record/loop button
• Track navigation buttons
• USB C socket
• Sustain pedal 1/4” jack socket
• Kensington security slot

Power Requirements

• USB bus powered
• Power supply not included

Ableton Live 12 Standard (Download)

What is Ableton Live?

Live is fast, fluid and flexible software for music creation and performance. It comes with all kinds of effects, instruments, sounds and creative tools – everything you need to make any kind of music.

Create with Live With

Live’s two modes of working, and a ton of creative tools and sounds with endless ways to combine them, the only limit on your music is your imagination.

Session View lets you sketch ideas fast: play, mix and match MIDI and audio loops of different lengths and tempos without ever stopping the music. The Arrangement View is where you organize music along a timeline and build sections of your song. Or record an arrangement directly from the Session View and improvise a finished composition.

Live has the tools to both capture your ideas and discover ones you never expected. Record hardware synths, software instruments, guitars, vocals or any audio from the real world. Combine the best of multiple audio or MIDI passes into your perfect take with Live’s new comping feature. Use MIDI Transformations to add variations to your patterns, or MIDI Generators to create new ideas that you can turn into your own. And find presets and sounds comparable to the ones you’re working on with Sound Similarity.

Live’s synthesizers offer a full spectrum of sound using wavetable, FM, subtractive, granular and analog- and physical-modeling architectures. A pair of sampling devices bring built-in slicing and warping, as well as multisampling and extensive sound-shaping capabilities. MIDI effects let you manipulate notes, and a rich range of clean to characterful audio effects help you tidy up your mix or make a creative mess. Live 12’s new devices include Roar, a multi-stage saturation and coloring effect, and Meld, an expressive 12-voice MPE-capable synthesizer with highly versatile twin oscillators.

Every edition of Live includes the Core Library, with vintage synths, analog drum machines, keys, multi-sampled drums, and much more. Live 12 adds Lost and Found, a collection of unique foley recordings and DIY multi-sampled instruments, Performance Pack, a collection of Max for Live devices designed for live performance, and two drum Packs from Sound Oracle that put the creative power of his authentic hip-hop and trap beats in your hands.

Perform with Live

On stage you can trigger, resequence and remix your music in real time. Use flexible MIDI mapping to set up almost any part of Live for hands-on tweaking with your controller. You can design your own unique combinations of instruments and effects, and use up to 16 Macro knobs to control any number of parameters. Find settings you like and save them as Macro snapshots to create builds, drops and instant variations during your performance.

Use Live to pull your show together. Control external hardware, integrate outboard effects or mixing desks. Improvise on your own, resample sounds, or process audio played by others, all in real-time. And Live can be a dynamic part of the band — with tempo following it can listen to incoming audio and adjust its tempo in real time. DJs can even use Live as a tempo-synced FX box.

Connect, Extend And Customize

Not only does Live come with everything you need, you can use it almost any way you want. Connect Live to any MIDI controller – even MPE-compatible hardware, which lets you add bends, slides and pressure to individual notes in a chord, make subtle expression variations and create evolving sonic textures with your hands.

Extend your setup using Ableton Link, technology built into Live that keeps multiple devices in perfect time over a network connection. It makes it easy to play alongside other music applications like Reason, Serato and an ever-growing number of iOS apps and Link-integrated hardware. And with Note, our iOS app designed for sketching musical ideas, you can start a track on the go and continue working on it in Live.

Even more imaginative ways to connect and customize are made possible through Max for Live, which brings the Max programming environment directly inside of Live. It lets you customize many of Live’s devices, build your own from scratch, and even hack how Live works. You can connect Live to lights, cameras, sensors, surround-sound setups and more. And explore a world of ready-made instruments, effects and tools produced by the Max for Live community.

Live 12 Standard Key Features

• Multitrack Audio recording and MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments
• Unique Session View for nonlinear composition, flexible performance and improvisation
• Real-time warping of audio: automatically sync music and loops, regardless of tempo
• MIDI-mappable controls for hands-on creation onstage or in the studio – plus automatic mapping for popular hardware controllers
• Comping: select and combine the best of multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance.
• Linked-track editing: link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously.
• Group tracks: use multiple levels of groups to mix with greater flexibility and manage detailed arrangements more easily.
• Audio-to-MIDI conversion tools: extract harmony, melody or drums from an audio sample and convert it into MIDI.
• Tempo following: Live adjusts its tempo in real time based on an incoming audio signal
• Note chance and velocity chance: set the probability that a MIDI note or drum hit will occur and define ranges for velocity probability to generate pattern variations and humanize dynamics.
• Combine multiple instruments and effects into a single device with Instrument Racks
• Combine MIDI effects into a single device with MIDI Effect Racks
• Comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects for creative sound design, mixing or mastering
• MIDI Transformations and Generators: use Transformations to create a variety of simple or complex variations of your MIDI clips, or conjure up playful and original ideas with Generators.
• Sound Similarity: start with a sample and tell Live’s browser to find comparable sounds and instrument or drum presets.
• Advanced sampling and slicing tools
• VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit support
• MIDI Polyphonic Expression: allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real time for more expressive instrumental performances.
• Groove engine to apply swing to audio or MIDI, or extract rhythmic feel from other audio files
• Import video as a clip and save modified video and audio

Instruments, Effects And Sounds

• 13 instruments: Analog, Simpler, Drift, Impulse, Drum Rack and Drum Synths, Collision, Electric, Tension, CV Instrument, CV Triggers, Instrument Rack and the External Instrument device
• 42 audio and 13 MIDI effects
• 14 MIDI Tools
• 38+GB of loops and samples

Technical Feature Spec / Compatibility

• Nondestructive editing with unlimited undo
• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
• Automatic plug-in delay compensation
• Ableton Link integration
• MPE support
• MIDI remote control instant mapping
• MIDI output to hardware synths
• MIDI Clock/sync
• Multicore/multiprocessor support
• WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC file support
• Unlimited Audio and MIDI tracks
• Unlimited Scenes
• 12 Send and return tracks
• 256 Audio inputs, 256 outputs
• Rex file support
• POW-r dithering
• Groove Pool and extract groove
• Capture MIDI