Introduction Congratulations on purchasing an M-Audio Keystation keyboard. The Keystation line offers 49-, 61- and 88-note velocity- sensitive USB keyboards designed to easily integrate with your PC or Macintosh computer. The Keystation 61es and 88es offer semi-weighted keys that give you the feel of a piano in a compact, affordable MIDI controller. Ideal for a multitude of music creation and education applications, the Keystation line offers modulation and pitch bend wheels, plus assignable buttons and a slider for hands-on control.
Keystation line of keyboards is class compliant, the unit will work without any further installation. Other Operating Systems If you are using an operating system other than Mac OS X or Windows XP, please refer to our website at www.m-audio.com for the latest Keystation drivers for Macintosh or Windows operating systems.
5. Click “OK.” 6. Click “OK” again. 7. Click “Save.” 8. If asked, click “Replace.” You should now have a final window showing your current Studio Setup. If “QuickTime Music” is crossed out, double click on it, and then click in the “on” circle to enable it. Then click “OK.” Now you’re ready to go. Just make sure your Keystation keyboard is selected as the MIDI input in your music software.
You can plug a foot pedal of any polarity, sold separately, into the foot pedal input on your M-Audio keyboard. The keyboard will automatically detect the correct polarity when powering up. If you want to reverse the polarity, simply depress the pedal when you switch on your keyboard.
Advanced Functions In addition to setting an octave shift, the two octave “+” and “-” buttons discussed earlier in the manual under the section “Octave Buttons” can also be used to control one of five MIDI functions. In the diagram above, you will see that the first 6 black keys are labeled “DATA = ________.” These keys are used to select the function of the octave buttons.
Transposition In some cases it may be useful to reduce or increase the pitch by a number of semitones rather than an entire octave. For example, if you are playing a song with a singer that is having difficulty hitting the top notes, you may want to reduce the pitch by one or two semitones.* This is achieved using a MIDI function called “Transpose.”...
Bank LSB and Bank MSB Program Changes are most commonly used to change instruments and voices. However, the number of instruments accessible via Program Changes is limited to 128. Some devices have more than 128 voices and require a different method to access these extra voices.
The Volume Slider As with the Modulation Wheel, the Volume Slider can be assigned to any of the 131 effects listed at the end of this manual. To assign the Volume Slider to an effect: < Press the Advanced Functions button to engage Edit Mode. <...
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Can this keyboard be used with Windows 10 and 11 with Cakewalk and Pro Tools Daws?