Arturia has released the MiniLab MkII Inverted, an alternate version of the MiniLab controller with an inverted color scheme.
Features:
- 25 note velocity-sensitive slim keyboard
- 2 banks of 8 high quality velocity & pressure sensitive pads with RGB backlighting
- 16 rotary encoders (2 of them are clickable)
- 2 capacitive touch sensors for pitch bend and modulation wheel
- 8 user presets
- Sustain pedal jack
- Octave up and octave down buttons for full range
- USB powered
- USB/MIDI class compliant no drivers needed.
- Mac or PC
- Kensington Security Slot
Pricing and Availability
The Arturia MiniLab MkII Inverted is available now from Amazon and other retailers with a street price of about $109 USD. See the Arturia site for details.
“Synthtopia is a portal devoted to electronic music.”
Is it? It seems more like it’s a way for companies to get press releases into their customers hands. It’s a ‘new product’ tracker, if anything.
Not at all, in the last few days we have had a lot of things like demonstration of the synths used by Mike Oldfield (not new products), improvisation on Reface CS (not new products), a podcast with Francis Preve, and a non-electronic apprehension engine (homemade product). Top of the page currently is physical modelling in VAST (not a new product). Mixed in are a few press releases like this one.
Thanks Synthtopia!
Product announcements are a part of news coverage for electronic musicians and a welcome service. I am glad I can take a look at Synthtopia for a quick update once in a while instead of digging through dozens of corporate newsletters and press releases. More editorial content would be appreciated on my side as well, but it takes a lot of work and money to create it.
Agreed. There are plenty of other places to find and discuss electronic music, but I appreciate the direct, to the point nature of Synthtopia posts about new equipment. Video, spec list, price, and a paragraph or two of other details is all I want.
When you do this normal* style key coloring scheme, only the tops of the sharp keys should be white. All the keys are traditionally from a very hard wood, often ebony, and sharp key tops have ivory there. Making the entire key white doesn’t look right.
Interestingly, most ivory on older pianos is mammoth ivory, not elephant ivory.
* It is the modern color scheme that is the one that is inverted. The use of ivory key tops across all of the diatonic C major keys of the keyboard signaled wealth by requiring far more ivory. It was a luxury statement.
Arturia if you read this, please soon consider to make that Arturia KeyStep MK2 😉
Battery powered would be nice too.