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Who's using Arturia MiniLab keyboard?
Looking to get a dedicated keyboard for my iPad and I'm kinda intrigued by the MiniLab due to all those endless encoders, pads, and ribbon strips. Anyone use it by mapping it to iMini or other synths? Do you find that the extra controls help your workflow with more fun/efficiency?
I'm kinda torn because I think it might be fun to complement the iPad experience with immediate tactile knobs and such but then again the touchscreen is already pretty immediate, and I was hoping to get at least 3 octaves. This would have been ideal:
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It's either this or iRig Keys and I'd rather not give any money to IK Multimedia unless they stop with the annoying pop-up ads for fully purchased apps and greedy in-app pricing.
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I have it and I like it. The encoders and pads are assignable to almost whatever you want. I bought it because I needed a small, inexpensive velocity sensitive keyboard with velocity sensitive pads that could change midi channels on the fly and this fit the bill perfectly. I mostly needed it for the pads though because BM2 doesn't have that pad area velocity like Cubasis has.
I haven't delved much into using the encoders yet but I'm confident that when I get a spare moment and I want to assign them to something, they'll will work the way I want them to. It does feel a bit cheap but for 100 bucks I kinda expected that. Otherwise, works great and I'm glad to have it in my ever shrinking arsenal of music things.
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Yeah, seems like the extra controls might be fun to add to the mix especially now that Beatmaker 2.5 will have MIDI learning directly in the sampler and every automatable control. Also I like that Arturia was smart enough to let you quickly switch between relative and absolute modes for the encoders for different use cases.
I noticed that it comes with overlays for different mapping templates but I guess that's just for the desktop Analog Lab software? I wonder if they already have a mapped template for iMini...
Yes the template directly corresponds with Analog Lab. No template for iMini as far as I know. Using the template as a template to make custom templates with would probably be easy enough though.
How much would they kill we're they to make the lab available on iOS?
They already did the minimoog with iMini so they could conceivably do the other synths on there as separate apps. That seems more likely but I wouldn't mind if they did put out an iOS version of Analog Lab.
I had one to use with my ipad and I sent it back after 2 days. I don't know if it was just a dodgy one though. It arrived with one side unglued (easy fix) but then after sorting out the firmware and knob settings via pc I found the knobs being very steppy, much steppier then akai mpk mini and axiom 32 that I also own (will eventually sell some and keep one but still not sure which takes the biscuit). So at this point I went on the web to find a solution and found masses of people complaining about arturia's stuff so I moved no further. Since then I've tried novation launchkey mini in the shop and I liked it but would prefer 32keys and the keyboard doesn't feel too solid compared to others. The pads feel lush though. It also has a few extra buttons for sending control midi messages. I think I'll get that eventually unless they come up with something new.
Also for people looking at M-audio axiom air mini 32. It is ok but one serious limitation for me is that it doesn't allow to separate midi channels for keyboards and pads as others do I.e. you can't have pads controlling beatmaker 2 on channel 10 and at the same time animoog or sunrizer on channel 1. What were they thinking? You'd need to switch channels continuously and that process is quite complicated with some 4 button presses.