Novation 49SL MkIII Keyboard Controller

Create one seamless workflow between your DAW and all your hardware with premium semi-weighted keys, all the essential transport and mixing controls, and an eight-track polyphonic sequencer. Sprawling setup? Bring MIDI hardware and CV/Gate synths together by plugging them all into your MIDI keyboard controller and keep everything perfectly in sync with one routable clock for the whole system.

Key Features

• Easily integrate hardware with your DAW - get the best of both worlds, recording any electronic performance from one studio centrepiece
• The perfect controller for Live - full parameter feedback across five colour LCD screens, so you can see everything you are controlling.
• Internal eight-track pattern-based sequencer - record in real time or input notes per step, then edit your sequences directly from the keyboard and record automation
• LED feedback directly above each key - work with scales and keys and see all your zones and layers with vibrant RGB feedback
• Comprehensive connectivity - route anything anywhere with USB; MIDI In, Out, Out 2/Thru; three pedal inputs; Analogue Clock Out; and two CV Pitch, Gate, and Mod outputs

Total control

Get to work with your favourite hardware with all the benefits of a DAW at your fingertips; no need to look at a computer screen. Pull your DAW out of the box and combine with your hardware synths - connecting everything through SL MkIII. Then easily control everything with highly customisable mappings for your hardware and software. Or create your own in the software editor.

It's the feel

SL MkIII boasts our finest and most playable synth-style semi-weighted keybed, with a sprung action tuned to the needs of the experienced player. It’s got aftertouch too, assignable to anything. Its exceptionally high scan rate of 10 kHz gives the keys a super dynamic feel for expressive performances. And you can see scales, modes and zones instantly with vibrant on-key RGB LED feedback.

SL MkIII's velocity-sensitive RGB pads have multiple functions too: they can be used for launching clips, as steps in the sequencer, for finger drumming, and have polyphonic aftertouch.

Internal eight-track pattern-based sequencer

Input notes step-by-step, or record as you go; you can play and edit your sequences directly from the keyboard. Then record parameter automation straight onto the sequencer, bringing your productions to life. You can choose an arp type, set a sync rate, tweak note and pattern lengths, and use the pads to design your rhythms in real time.

NKS-ready hardware

We have partnered with Native Instruments to bring NKS compatibility to SL MkIII. Native Kontrol Standard provides you with a seamless connection between Native Instruments software and the controls on your Novation hardware.

Keys for Live

We've worked with Ableton® to create an unprecedented integration with Live™. SL MkIII truly pulls your sessions out of the box. The full colour LCD screens give you full visibility of your parameters, while the pads, buttons, eight faders and eight knobs get you hands-on with your music - and in any major music software, using InControl.

Keys to the DAWs

Deep integrations with Logic® and Reason, plus HUI compatibility with Cubase, Pro Tools®, Studio One and Reaper, mean SL MkIII can open up any DAW.

Specifications

• 49 note velocity sensitive, individually sprung, synth style, semi-weighted keyboard
• 16 full-colour RGB backlit velocity sensitive drum pads
• 2 Page and 2 scene launch buttons
• 8 continuous rotary knobs
• 6 dedicated transport controls
• RGB backlit pitch bend and modulation wheels
• 2 octave / transpose buttons
• 2 Track buttons
• 5x RGB TFT LCD screens
• 59 Backlit buttons with tact switches
• 49 keybed RGB LEDs
• 16 Assignable buttons x 2 pages (32 assignable buttons)
• Assignable grid x 2 pages (32 assignable pads)
• Backlit RGB Mode switching buttons including InControl