The M-Audio KeyRig 49 turns your Mac or PC into a versatile keyboard workstation. Featuring a 49-key, synth-action USB MIDI keyboard and the award-winning Key Rig software for the PC, KeyRig 49 makes it easy to start composing and performing music with a computer. Use KeyRig 49 to play Key Rig’s virtual instrument sounds, or audition loops and compose songs with M-Audio’s Session, Apple’s GarageBand, Ableton’s Live Lite (included) or other music-creation programs. The KeyRig 49 keyboard also includes professional features like pitch and mod wheels, an assignable volume slider, octave +/- buttons and sustain pedal input. It’s powered via a single USB cable and works instantly with computers running Mac OS X or Windows XP.

Top Features:

• 49-note velocity-sensitive synth-action keyboard
• includes KeyRig software for PC
• USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 compatible
• instant installation on Mac OS X and Windows XP computers
• includes Ableton Live Lite (PC/Mac) software

Perfect for entering MIDI information into your music applications without taking a huge bite out of your pocketbook!

More information on the KeyRig 49

System Requirements

Compatibility

• MME
• Mac OS X Core MIDI
  

Minimum System Requirements (PC)

KeyRig 49 keyboard

• Pentium 3 800MHz (CPU may be higher for laptops)
• 256 MB RAM
• DirectX 9.0b
• Windows XP (SP2)*
• (Windows 98, Me, NT, or 2000 not supported)
• * Home and Professional Edition only. Windows Meda Center Edition is not supported.

** M-Audio suggests you also check the minimum system requirements for your software, as they may be greater than the above.

Key Rig software

• Pentium® III 500 MHz or AMD7 (P4 / Athlon 1 GHz or faster recommended)
• 256 MB RAM
• 600 MB free hard disk space
• Windows® XP*
• VST 2.0 compatible host software
• CD-ROM drive for installation
• Internet connection (on any computer) for software activation
• ASIO-compatible soundcard for standalone operation

* Home and Professional Edition only. Windows Media Center Edition is not supported.

Minimum System Requirements (Mac)

• Macintosh G3** 800/G4** 733MHz (CPU may be higher for laptops)
• OS X 10.2.8 w/ 256 MB RAM,
• OS X 10.3.4, 10.4, 10.5.1 w/ 512 MB RAM

* M-Audio suggests you also check the minimum system requirements for your software, as they may be greater than the above.
** native USB port required; G3/G4 accelerator cards not supported

Bundled Software

Ableton Live Lite
Ableton Live Lite delivers much of the functionality of Ableton Live—the revolutionary, multi-award winning music production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise and edit your musical ideas in a seamless audio/MIDI environment. Live brings your acoustic, electronic and virtual instruments—as well as your digital audio recordings and MIDI sequences—together in a single interface with unparalleled ease of use. details

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