Alesis V Mini

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The Alesis V Mini is a portable and friendly 25-key USB-MIDI keyboard controller. Even though its size does not surprise, it’s powerful and intuitive. With this little bad boy, you’ll be able to take full advantage of your music software. And you’ll be able to do so with seamless integration to enhance your music production journey. With its 25 mini velocity-sensitive keys and its octave up and down selector buttons you can comfortably expand it to a full melodic range. Play bass lines, melodies, and chords with confidence. Alesis has really gone the extra mile in making this a real workhorse.

Alesis V Mini: Features

The Alesis V Mini has a couple of fundamental features to your production workflow and performance. With its four assignable knobs you can practically do everything you need to tweak, model, and shape your sounds. Also, you can load plugins and virtual instruments to boost your creativity needs. Similarly, you can even activate effects, adjust the volume controls on the go, open or close filers, and tweak parameters. If you want to create a beat you can instantly play with its four velocity-sensitive pads. These, btw, are backlit, which makes the whole keyboard controller stand out in low light.

With the pads included in the Alesis V Mini, you can also trigger clips and finger drum. In combination with pitch modulation and sustain buttons you can augment your expressiveness while you perform. Plus, it’s easy to set up, with only one USB cable to any PC or MAC. With its size, it becomes very practical if you’re nomad music producer. Out of the box, you’ll find that it includes XPAND!2, which is an advance Virtual Instrument with more than 2k premium sounds. As a result, you’ll have everything that you need to start your musical journey right away.

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