ARTURIA MiniLab Mk II
Details
Manufacturer Arturia
Price £99
Distributor Source Distribution
Contact 0208 962 5080
Web www.arturia.com
Key Features
• Two-octave USB controller keyboard
• Velocityresponsive slim-key design
• 16 rotary encoders
• 8 pads, perfect for use with drums
• Mac/PC and iOS compatible
• Class compliant
• Included DAW and plug-in software
Arturia has never been a company to stand still, so it’s not an enormous surprise that the next incarnation of MiniLab controller seeks to take the initial concept a step further, in this latest MkII revision.
The very first thing you’ll notice is a change to the keybed, which still keeps the same form of a two-octave design, but now feels a little more robust, thanks to the front edge being more piano-like and less synth-like. Granted, it’s still a relatively inexpensive MIDI controller, but this is a welcome redesign, which also brings it into line with the KeyStep, which was released a few months back. The keys are described as slim, although Arturia also uses the word ‘mini’ on its website, so this might be pure semantics. While generally playable, the usual issues with this type of keyboard remain, particularly as my pianistic fingers edged up the keys. I found that notes would not trigger, because the see-saw point of the key
