Do you love the power and versatility of FL Studio but prefer a more hands-on approach? The Novation FLkey controller boasts seamless hardware integration with FL Studio’s powerful DAW architecture, yielding the best of both worlds. Each of the controller’s keys and 16 RGB-backlit pads boast velocity sensitivity to capture every nuance of your playing, while the eight assignable knobs and nine customizable faders allow for intuitive editing capabilities. Scale Mode and Chord Mode simplify rapid-fire chord/scale playing on one key — a feature that FL Studio fanatics at Music Experience find is incredibly powerful as performance and songwriting tools. Plus, direct access to your presets on the FLkey controller reduces your screen diving even further, offering quick switching of your different tones to inject some flair into your playing!
Every facet of Novation’s FLkey controller is purpose-built to streamline your creative process in FL Studio, from the velocity-sensitive keys to the built-in plug-in browsing directly from your keyboard. As much as we love the immense power of modern software’s music-making tools at Music Experience, it’s hard to match the sheer versatility and immediacy of a physical keyboard, pads, faders, and knobs — the FLkey’s seamless integration into FL Studio’s architecture is sure to unlock your creative potential!
One of the controller’s most exciting features is its onboard Scale Modes. We all use modes, whether we realize it or not. With the FLkey at your service, you can lay down a smokin’ Mixolydian bass line or rock out a sweet Dorian mode solo without getting bogged down in music theory. (Of course, knowing a little theory never hurt any musician!) Scale Modes transpose the keys you play into notes of the scale you’ve chosen. Just select your root note and the scale you want, and then play. No matter how accomplished a keyboardist you are, the FLkey will expand your musical vocabulary.
While the FLkey might be designed for use with FL Studio, it also offers a versatile control service for your external gear with a 5-pin MIDI DIN connection. Hardware synths and other devices are a perfect fit for the FLkey’s smooth key action and assignable controls, allowing you to facilitate everything from either your computer or a standalone setup.
FLkey 49 is the ultimate MIDI keyboard controller for hands-on music production in FL Studio. Get instant access to your Sequencer, Channel Rack and Mixer, extend your creativity with Scale and Chord modes, and more. With 49 semi-weighted keys, 16 velocity-sensitive pads, nine 45mm faders, eight customisable pots, and essential transport controls, FLkey 49 puts everything you need right where you need it – so you can stay in the groove.
Sequencer Mode maps FLkey’s pads to FL Studio’s step sequencer for sketching beats fast. Two Pad modes give your rhythms real human feel and get you off the grid: play straight into the Channel Rack or FPC, and trigger slices in SliceX. Need some crisp hi-hat rolls? Note Repeat makes it easy every single time.
Bring FL Studio’s volume and pan controls off the screen and into your hands – use the eight pots to tweak your mix and record automation on the fly. Essential transport buttons give you access to DAW functions in an instant. Browse presets in your Image-Line plugins to change up instruments and sounds fast, with no mouse needed.
In Scale mode you always hit the right note, keeping the music flowing. Combine musical tools to immediately unlock new creative boundaries and find ideas you never knew you had.
FLkey comes with a bundle of instruments and effects from our friends at AAS, Spitfire Audio, XLN Audio and Klevgrand. Throw all this content into your existing FL Studio projects, or have a go with an included 6-month free trial of FL Studio Producer Edition.
FL Studio Producer Edition (6-Month Trial) – FL Studio is the complete software music production environment, everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master your best music.
XLN Audio Addictive Keys – Add great sounding piano to your tracks with the Studio Grand, based on the iconic Steinway® Model D. Plug in and play; you’ll be instantly transported to a professional recording studio set up to capture this beautiful piano.
AAS Session Bundle – Essential sounds for your tracks: Lounge Lizard’s authentic classic electric piano tones; Strum Session’s acoustic and electric guitar sounds; Ultra Analog Session’s easy-to-use, huge synth sounds.
Spitfire Audio LABS Expressive Strings – Get immediately expressive and realistic strings sounds. Control release, delay and reverb or fade in experimental warped layers to add colour to your tracks and scores.
Klevgrand R0Verb – A hybrid between a simple reverb and a very complex delay in an easy-to-use plugin. Design your own reverbs and put your sounds in their own unique space.
| Number of Keys | 49 |
|---|---|
| Type of Keys | Velocity-sensitive Synth Action |
| Pads | 16 x Velocity Sensitive RGB Pads |
| Other Controllers | Pitchbend, Mod Wheel |
| Encoders/Pots | 8 |
| Faders | 9 |
| Dedicated Transport Control | Yes, Integration with FL Studio 21.0.3 or later |
| Pedal Inputs | 1 x 1/4" (sustain) |
| MIDI I/O | Out |
| USB | 1 x Type B |
| Features | Scale Mode, Pad Note Repeat |
| Software | FL Studio (trial), XLN Audio Addictive Keys, AAS Session bundle, Spitfire Audio Expressive Strings, Klevgrand DAW Cassette |
| OS Requirements - Mac |
macOS 10.15 or later |
| OS Requirements - PC |
Windows 10 or later |
| Power Supply | USB Bus Powered |
| Height | 3.03" |
| Width | 31.06" |
| Depth | 10.16" |
| Manufacturer Part Number | AMS-FLKEY-49 815301001621 |
