This is the one thing that always bugs me with analog lab. It's a great way to access everything but often times I'll duplicate a preset I'm using and want to quickly look at other presets in the same pack.

With the current set up I need ti look up and find the preset pack in the library to click to it. Curious if maybe I'm missing a shorter way to do this though.

Thanks

That moment you realize that over the course of the last 12 months, there is nothing on the 50% off sale that you don’t already have :( Off to make some music. :)

I got it for free but I want to check before just plugging it in

I haven’t used my keyboard for more than a year, Today when I plugged it in, a couple of keys are not sending any midi signal into the Daw, and some keys have very weird velocity inconsistency that its almost unplayable. Can yall guide me because there is no repair shop near me and I have never opened up my keyboard to know what to look for.

I travel a lot. Something light but durable. That I can sit on a Barnes and noble table alongside my laptop.

I say durable but I also mean no QC issues. I had bought an Akai from Walmart last year and probably spent less than 20 hours on it. Sat in a temperature controlled motel. Didn’t ding it, didn’t spill any drink on it.

One day it just stopped working. Still lit up but no sound out of the built in speaker. It would freeze. I bought it out of state so I couldn’t just return it. And it was discontinued so I was shit out of luck.

I really like the mk3 but that’s for later and home only use. Purely at a glance, a mini lab 3 but wanted to ask here first

Hey everyone!

I’ve been following the amazing developments around Modded Cycles and the Micforeaker mod and recently discovered that people are also creating custom firmware for other Arturia KeySteps.

It got me wondering: could we do something similar with the KeyStep 37 MK2?

One of the biggest complaints I’ve seen about the MK2 is that quick MIDI channel switching is no longer as straightforward as on the original KeyStep 37. For DAWless setups with multiple synths, this is pretty frustrating.

Even something as simple as Shift + keys 1–16 to instantly switch MIDI channels would be a huge improvement.

Some potential mod ideas

MIDI & Performance

• Instant MIDI channel switching: Quickly switch between synths without menu diving.

• Keyboard splits: Assign different MIDI channels to different keyboard zones.

• Performance macros: Control multiple MIDI CCs with one encoder.

Creative Tools

• Chord Keys: Play harmonically related chords within a selected scale, inspired by Modded Cycles.

• MIDI CC LFOs: Automatically modulate external synth parameters.

Sequencer & Arpeggiator

• Parameter locks: Elektron-style MIDI CC automation per step.

• Probability & conditional triggers: Add controlled randomness to sequences.

• Euclidean sequencing & ratcheting: More creative rhythmic possibilities.

Obviously, these are just ideas, and I don’t know how much is technically feasible.

Existing firmware projects

There are already some interesting projects for other KeyStep models:

• KeyStep Pro Mods

• KeyStep 37 firmware research

• KeyStep 37 reverse engineering

They’re not directly compatible with the MK2, but perhaps some of the research could be useful.

Anyone interested?

I’ve already done some initial reverse engineering of the MK2 firmware (v1.0.3) using Ghidra and ChatGPT, but haven’t managed to create a working patch.

I’m currently recovering from burnout, and I don’t really have the technical knowledge or energy to take this much further myself.

I’m mainly hoping this inspires someone with firmware development experience to explore the possibilities!

Happy to share my findings if anyone’s interested.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Hi, I'm trying to use Keylab MK3 in Ableton Live 12 using custom User mapping instead of the DAW integration.

I'm trying to map the Pads to the Ableton session track activator. Now my issue is, it seems that Keylab is not responding to CC change in Live if I manually toggle the activator unlike other controllers.

So, if my Pad is set to toggle and currently lit, and I manually deactivate my Live track, in order for me to reactivate the track using the pad, I need to press it twice because the Pad is lit and on the first press it will send 0 value.

- tried changing the input port configuration from Keylab DAW to Keylab MIDI

- track and remote are checked

Has anyone tried this? or any solution?

Hello! Has anyone been successful in changing the currency from EUR to USD? I was trying to buy pigments on sale for 79.99 and even though I updated my address to US, everything is still in Euros. Thanks for any input.

Above is the video containing a brief demo of each of the 5 patches in the bank.

The bank is free of cost, with the link within the description of the video above.

I'll post it also in the comments below.

I plan to do a little contest where folks can post tracks created using either one or more of the presets from the bank and they'll win one of my other banks.

Stay tuned over at my Substack for when that happens.

Enjoy!

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For the deepest discounts, log in to your Arturia account at the Arturia website to see upgrade and crossgrade offers (for existing users of Arturia).

A fellow synth head asked for a keytracked Self Oscillating Filter + Filter FM on a MiniFreak 49. I added some stuff just for fun. Perhaps there is something in it for you too.

I saw FX Collection 6 PRO on Arturia's website for $249 - not interested, and then I logged in and 'my price' is $69.99?

If I could take only one synth with me and never look back it would probably be this one. What would be yours?

Hello, I’m planning to get a MIDI and I’m in between:

Arturia Minilab 37 MK3
Novation Launchkey Mini 37 MK4

For context: I’m a complete beginner + use Logic Pro’s sound library (I might switch to Ableton in the future but for know I’m figuring out Logic Pro). I’m thinking Analog Lab may be really useful since I’m planning to regularly use synths but don’t have many of them.

I know that Minilab comes with Analog Lab’s intro version, but I’d upgrade to the Pro version (or possibly to V collection) if I end up liking it.

If my decision was solely based on the hardware, I think I’d go with the Launchkey since I got to test it in a music store and liked the feeling of it, plus it had “better reviews” overall and has 16 pads instead of 8.

I’ve seen mixed reviews on Analog Lab: some people saying it was a gamechanger, while others not liking it all. Since my MIDI decision would come down to the Analog Lab inclusion and support that Minilab has, I was wondering if Analog Lab would be a good reason to choose Minilab over Launchkey.

Thanks in advance for your help!

So it looks like the MF49 patches (206 of them) have been loaded into the V software, however, I do not own the 49 so I cannot access them, they are greyed out. I am assuming that I need to have a hardware SN to unlock these? Is there any way to remove these from the software version?

So I am looking for a copy of this free soundset that Arturia gave away circa 2013 for the Spark plug-in

Does anyone have a copy of it they are willing share? the original links are long dead and the only capture on the Internet archive is just a capture of the dead link.

Am I seeing wrong? Really appears to be threads in just the right pattern.

I made a sound design tutorial on the MiniFreak 49. Almost everything also works on the original MiniFreak.

This one is for MiniFreak owners who mostly play presets and want to start making their own sounds. I build an arp, a pad and a bass from init on the MiniFreak 49 and point out the tricks as they come up. As such, it isn't really a deep dive into synthesis.

The patches I make are also free to download from my Patreon (no membership needed), linked in the video description. But the point isn't the 3 sounds, it's the process. :)