Ableton Live 12 Suite with Novation Launchkey 25 Mk4 Bundle

Using the Novation Launchkey 25 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 Suite Upgrade from Live Lite (Download)
• 1 x Novation Launchkey 25 MK4 USB Midi Keyboard Controller

Novation Launchkey 25 MK4 USB Midi Keyboard Controller

Enhance your music production setup with the Novation Launchkey 25, a versatile, all-in-one DAW controller. Featuring two octaves of full-size, synth-action keys and 16 patented FSR pads, the Launchkey 25 is perfect for finger drumming, clip launching, and more. Whether you’re working with your DAW, hardware synths, or iOS devices, the next generation of Launchkey offers new and expanded tools to ignite your creativity. With Chord, Scale, and Arpeggio Modes, plus real-time feedback from a crisp OLED display, you can stay in key and perform with expression like never before.

Key Features

• In-Depth DAW Control: Seamless integration with Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Reaper, Reason, and more, with no setup required.
• Customisable Software Control: Eight encoders provide instant control over DAW mixers, virtual instruments, and effects, with the ability to create user mappings for personalised control.
• Expressive Keybed: The 25-note synth-style keyboard is responsive and expressive, perfect for dynamic performances.
• 16 Velocity-Sensitive Pads: Play drums, trigger samples, and launch clips with FSR pads featuring polyphonic aftertouch.
• Advanced Creative Tools: Built-in arpeggiator and three Chord Modes (Fixed Chord, User Chord, and Chord Maps) make it easy to create musical progressions.
• Scale Mode: Locks notes to the correct scale and displays the chord being played on the OLED screen for effortless music creation.
• MIDI Connectivity: Full-size MIDI out port connects directly to synths and other MIDI hardware; compatible with iPhone and iPad.
• Custom Modes: Fully customisable controls via Novation’s Components software, with up to four custom mappings for pads and encoders.
• Bundled Software: Comes with Ableton Live Lite, a collection of professional-grade virtual instruments, and more.

Enhanced DAW Integration

The Launchkey 25 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. Enjoy a hardware-powered workflow that gives you full control over transport functions, timeline navigation, mixing, EQ, clip launching, and more. In 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.

More Powerful Creative Tools

Launchkey 25’s built-in creative tools work across your DAW, hardware synths, or mobile devices. Scale Modes allow you to lock your keyboard to one of 30 different scales, eliminating wrong notes. Fixed Chord mode triggers full chords from a single key, while Chord Maps let you craft emotive progressions using the pads. The advanced arpeggiator enables endless variations, helping you generate fresh ideas and inspiration.

Super-Responsive Keybed and FSR Pads

The 25-note synth-style keyboard is designed for expressiveness and playability. The patented, velocity-sensitive FSR pads feature polyphonic aftertouch and radial sensors, ensuring tighter performances and more consistent sensitivity. These pads can also trigger chords or individual notes, making them versatile tools for your creative process.

Play Your Way with Custom Modes

Launchkey’s controls are fully customisable. Using the free Components software, you can configure the pads 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 25 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 25 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

• 25 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
• 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

The Novation Launchkey 25 is your gateway to a world of music creation, offering everything you need to produce, perform, and inspire.

Ableton Live 12 Suite (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 Suite 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
• Time signature changes
• Built-in Max for Live software with more instruments, audio and MIDI effects, and the ability to customize Live

Instruments, Effects And Sounds

• 20 instruments: Wavetable, Operator, Analog, Meld, Sampler, Simpler, Granulator III, Drift, Electric, Tension, Collision, Bass, Poli, Drum Rack, Drum Synths, Impulse, CV Instrument and CV Triggers, Instrument Racks and the External Instrument device
• 58 Audio and 14 MIDI effects, including Roar, Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Time and Spectral Resonator
• 14 MIDI Tools
• 71+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
• Generate or receive Pitch, Control, Clock and Trigger CV
• 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