M-Audio HAMMER 88 PRO

With a keyboard featuring a heavy Graded Hammer Action feel, providing progressive note weighting like a real classical piano, combined with velocity-sensitive backlit pads and plenty of physical controls to drive DAWs and virtual instruments, the Hammer 88 Pro is quite naturally the future standard in 88-key master keyboards.

Outstanding playing feel.

M-Audio has enhanced the Hammer 88 Pro's keyboard with Graded Hammer Action: the keys feature progressive weighting and are individually weighted, mimicking the mechanical response and feel of a grand piano, while having a much more compact, lightweight instrument! This weighting allows for an ultra-realistic playing feel in all styles, with a natural response that allows the pianist to easily express their emotions through their music. The Hammer 88 Pro's keyboard also features a programmable aftertouch, which allows you to modulate the sound of a virtual instrument with technology that continuously scans the pressure applied to a key, even after you press it.

Control your music with a masterful hand.

The Hammer 88 Pro gives you all the features you need to control your DAW of choice. It features 16 velocity-sensitive RGB pads with Note Repeat, 9 faders and 8 programmable buttons to control your software. The Hammer 88 Pro also features an intuitive OLED display that makes it easy to find sounds, set up controls, and mix and edit your sessions. On the rear panel, you'll find 5-pin MIDI connections, a sustain pedal input, an expression pedal input, and two additional inputs for damper pedals.

Always on the scale.

This professional master keyboard features M-Audio's newest Smart Chord and Smart Scale technologies. Smart Chord allows the user to play complete chords with a single keystroke, while Smart Scale allows the pianist to adjust the keyboard so that only the notes in the selected scale can be played, eliminating the risk of "wrong" notes. A real plus for boosting your creativity.

A professional master's degree.

The Hammer 88 Pro incorporates features essential to modern music creation on any computer or DAW. At the top of the list is auto-mapping, which allows you to instantly map the Hammer 88 Pro to many popular DAWs such as Pro Tools, MPC Beats, Cubase, Logic, Studio One, and Fruity Loops, as well as to the virtual instruments that come with the Hammer 88 Pro. The built-in arpeggiator will affect anything you play on the keys of any virtual instrument in your DAW. This powerful tool can work in Hold or Momentary mode, to easily adapt to your style.

A complete software package.

The new M-Audio Hammer 88 Pro incorporates a complete software package including multiple DAWs, virtual instruments, and sample packs so that every music writer, producer, musician, or composer has all the tools they need to achieve full production without delay.

- Touch: Graded Hammer Action - Heavy Progressive Weighted

- Key Format: piano

- Display: OLED

- Category: Master Keyboard

- Inputs: Expression pedal, Sustain pedal, Midi, damper pedal (x2)

- Outputs: Midi, USB/Midi

- Software provided: Ableton Live Lite, Velvet Air Music Tech, Xpand!2 Air Music Tech, DB-33 Air Music Tech, Mini Grand Air Music Tech, ADSR, F9 Instruments Beats Edition, Laniakea Sounds, MSX Audio, BOOM Air Music Tech, MPC Beats, Pro Tools | First M-Audio Edition, Vacuum Air Music Tech, MPC Beats Production Kits

- Controller: 9 sliders, 8 potentiometers

- Power supply: USB, DC 9 V

- Compatibility: PC, Mac

- Dimensions (mm): 1422 x 282 x 127

- Weight (kg): 18.50 kg

- Velocity sensitive: Yes

- Bluetooth: No

- Aftertouch: Yes

- Sequencer: No

- Arpeggiator: Yes

- Backlit pad: Yes

- Transpose: Yes

- Bluetooth Midi: No

- Velocity sensitive pads: Yes

- No. of pads: 16

- No. of faders: 9

- No. of knobs: 8

- No. of keys: 88

- Additional specs: - 88-key Graded Hammer Action keyboard (heavy touch with progressive weighting) with aftertouch and programmable zones.

- 16 velocity-sensitive RGB backlit programmable pads with Note Repeat for beats production.

- 8 programmable knobs and buttons to control your virtual instruments, mix plugins or drive a DAW

- 9 programmable faders to drive virtual instruments, plugins or DAW faders

- DAW and Preset buttons for driving auto-mapped DAWs and plugin settings.

- Smart Chord mode for playing enharmonic voices or custom chords

- Smart Scale mode eliminates false notes, making it easy to create the perfect song

- Arpeggiator with Type, Octave, Gate and Swing controls

- Ergonomic pitch and modulation wheels,

- USB-Midi connection, 5-pin MIDI inputs and outputs for connecting external MIDI devices.

- Intuitive interface and OLED display for quick parameter editing.

- Includes music stand, MIDI editing software and a full set of production software.