ARTURIA KeyStep Pro

Over the past few years, Arturia has provided us with hardware synthesisers big and small, plus drum machines, plug-ins, audio interfaces and MIDI controllers. But it’s with its CV/gate connectivity that the French firm has arguably had its biggest impact, giving both synth and Eurorack owners the opportunities to connect vintage devices and contemporary systems, via DAWs, plug-ins or full-on Eurorack systems. It seems like a logical step, then, for the Grenoble-based company to combine some of its best sequential elements from recent years inside a single device, while pushing its usability to the max. Step up, the KeyStep Pro.

THE NEXT STEP

The KeyStep Pro is familiar in styling to previous Arturia products. Its central track-selection area features four coloured tracks to help guide your way. To the right of this, you’ll find 16 step buttons that can be linked together to provide up to 64 steps in a single pattern. Above, five rotary encoders provide performance control, as well as the ability to send MIDI CC information. Global elements like tempo control, octave switching, and pitch and mod capacitive strips are found on the far