M-Audio Axiom 61 MKII – 2nd Gen 61-Key USB MIDI Controller

Intuitive Design

Whether you’re on stage or in the studio, your keyboard controller should fuel your creativity—providing all the right information and controls at your fingertips. That’s why we designed Axiom 61 with a sleek angled top panel for easier viewing of the display and improved ergonomics. Smooth rotary encoders deliver precise, continuously variable parameter changes while low profile 40 mm faders give you a hands-on feel for the mix. The centrally positioned LCD screen provides informative feedback from DAW hosts, including on-screen display of parameters and settings. It all adds up to intuitive control over your MIDI software and hardware.

Mobile Operation

The Axiom series is extremely compact and lightweight and all models are powered directly from your computer’s USB bus. Choose the size that’s best for your needs, then take your music anywhere you want to go.

A New Approach to Making Music

With Ignite, you can now capture your ideas quickly with professional results. Individual musical ideas are captured as phrases, simply called clips. Multiple clips can be played back together, or even grouped to create more complex phrases and song sections. Ignite provides seamless integration with any current M-Audio keyboard controller. Once connected to your computer, the key parameters will be automatically assigned, or mapped, to the front panel controllers. This tight integration provides an out-of-the-box solution that simply works—with no set-up chores to perform.

Sound Your Best

Included with Ignite are over 275 remarkable instrument sounds developed by AIR Music Technology. In addition to a versatile arpeggiator, Smart MIDI technology provides both a Chord Player and a Phrase Player that can introduce new musical parts to enhance your production—even a drum pattern. Email your ideas to the rest of the band. Share your musical ideas and songs with other musicians through SoundCloud—all without ever leaving Ignite. Plus, you can export WAV, MP3 and MIDI files, and then import them into any DAW recording software.

DirectLink: Streamlined Session Control

Building on the best-selling MIDI keyboard controllers of all time**, the updated Axiom series features DirectLink, which automatically maps the onboard controls to common parameters in DAWs* like Logic, Cubase, Live, and Reason. Take control over your software studio—directly from the keyboard. Use the faders and encoder knobs to fine-tune the mix. Easily navigate through sessions using the Transport buttons. Interfacing a MIDI controller with your software doesn’t get any easier than this.

Serious Production Power

When inspiration strikes, you need a keyboard controller that can translate ideas into killer tracks. That’s why Axiom 61 is equipped with an ultra-expressive semi-weighted keyboard and eight Trigger Finger® pads for programming beats with incredible feel. Automatically map Axiom 61 to your DAW with DirectLink—or delve deeper by assigning the pads, encoders, faders, and buttons to whatever controls you wish. Each controller can map to just about any MIDI message available, along with independent channel addressing for each. The possibilities are as endless as your imagination.

Axiom Instrument Mode

With other MIDI keyboards, assigning encoders and faders to control virtual instruments has never been easy. Now thanks to the Axiom 61 controller’s new Instrument mode, a single button instantly maps the faders, buttons, and encoders to any virtual instrument inside your DirectLink-compatible host*. You get direct access to synthesis parameters such as filter cutoff, LFO rate, and envelope settings—without having to manually configure anything. It’s almost like turning Axiom 61 into a dedicated hardware synth.

M-Audio Axiom 61 – New Features:

• M-Audio Axiom 61 USB MIDI Controller
• 61-key piano-style, semi-weighted-action keyboard with assignable aftertouch
• DirectLink automatically maps controllers to work with popular recording software
• 8 rotary encoder knobs, 9 sliders, and 8 trigger pads–all MIDI assignable
• 9 assignable buttons with LED lights for software feedback
• 6 dedicated transport controls
• Dedicated track up/down, mute, and solo buttons
• Angled top panel with centered, custom LCD display for easy viewing in any situation
• 4 zone buttons for stacking and splitting sounds on up to 4 MIDI channels
• Assignable pitch bend and modulation performance wheels
• Octave up/down; transpose up/down
• Sustain pedal and Expression pedal inputs
• Preset parameter mappings for popular virtual instruments
• 20 memory locations for storing custom setups
• 4 keyboard velocity curves and 3 fixed velocity settings
• 4 pad velocity curves, 3 fixed settings, and unique ‘step’ velocity curves
• Class-compliant with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X
• Includes Ableton Live Lite
• Includes Ignite music creation software
• 38″ (W) x 11.6″ (D) x 3.5″ (H)
• 13.7 lbs.
• Ignite Music Creation Software
• Seamless M-Audio keyboard integration
• Capture ideas quickly—with professional results
• Easily combine and arrange individual recordings
• Unique musician-centric workflow
• Intuitive graphic interface aids production
• Smart MIDI chord and phrase creators
• Easy sharing and collaboration via SoundCloud
• Export WAV, MP3 and MIDI files for use with any DAW.

Minimum System Requirements (PC):

Windows XP (SP3)*

• 800 MHz Intel or AMD**
• 256 MB RAM

Windows Vista 32 , 64bit (SP1) / Win7 32, 64bit

• 1 GHz Intel or AMD**
• 1 GB RAM
• DirectX 10 or higher

Windows 7

• 1 GHz Intel or AMD**
• 1 GB RAM
• DirectX 10 or higher

* Home and Professional Edition only. Windows Media Center Edition is not supported.

** CPU may be higher for laptops.

Please check the minimum system requirements for your software, as they may be greater than the above.

Minimum System Requirements (Mac):

• Mac OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.1
• Intel Core Duo
• 1 GB RAM.

Made in China