10 reviews

Arturia

Synths & MIDI controllers

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Arturia is a French music-technology company founded in 1999 in Grenoble, known for its software and analog synthesizers, audio interfaces, and MIDI keyboard controllers such as the KeyLab series.

Founded: 1999
Based in: Grenoble, France

MIDI Controller$999

Arturia KeyLab 88 mk3

Reviewers crown the keybed; owners waited most of a year for firmware that made the sustain pedal behave.

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MIDI Controller$599

Arturia KeyLab 61 mk3

A keybed and a chassis nobody argues with — wrapped around pads, plug-in control and a price that people do.

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MIDI Controller$149

Arturia MiniLab 37

The MiniLab with the octave everyone asked for — its keys and layout win reviewers over, while the missing aftertouch, the Shift-key transport and a plasticky shell keep the grumbles coming.

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MIDI Controller$199

Arturia KeyStep 37 mk2

The KeyStep everyone had finally gets a screen and real encoders — and whether that's an upgrade or a loss of the immediacy that made the original is the whole argument.

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MIDI Controller$69

Arturia MicroLab mk3

The smallest Arturia — a genuinely good keybed and nothing else, which is either the whole point or the whole problem.

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MIDI Controller$219

Arturia BeatStep Pro

A decade on, still the cheapest way to put MIDI, USB and CV under one set of knobs — as long as you respect the micro-USB socket.

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MIDI Controller$499

Arturia KeyStep Pro

The four-track CV/MIDI brain hardware and modular players reach for by default — loved for its connectivity and immediate sequencing, argued over for launch-era firmware bugs and the odd bricked unit.

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MIDI Controller$169

Arturia KeyStep 37

The pocket-sized hybrid sequencer reviewers hand modular and synth players by default — loved for its CV connectivity and aftertouch, argued over for its one-track sequencer and Arturia's key QC.

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