M-Audio Axiom Air Mini 32 USB MIDI Keyboard

Uniting serious power and unmatched ease-of-use, the M-Audio Axiom AIR Mini 32 is the ultimate tool for the mobile musician. This compact controller provides 32 great-feeling mini keys with plenty of room to play. Take control of your sessions with eight knobs, eight drum pads, plus transport and software navigation buttons. .

Premium Keyboard and Pad VIP Controller

Space-saving style

Ideal for the on-the-go or laptop musician, the compact Axiom AIR Mini 32 serves up 8 responsive pads and 32 velocity-sensing mini-keys, opening new paths to expressive performance. Choose a velocity curve to match your playing. Pitch Bend, Modulation, and Sustain buttons add serious performance capabilities. Octave shift keys provide access to the entire MIDI note range.

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 and MIDI files, and then import them into any DAW recording software—including Pro Tools.

Key Features

• M-Audio Axiom AIR Mini 32 USB MIDI Controller
• 32 velocity sensing mini-keys with selectable touch curves
• 8 dynamic drum pads, with 2 Banks for added versatility
• Drum pad learn feature makes it easy to assign patches to trigger pads
• Interactive HyperControl provides effortless controller mapping
• Assignable controls with front-panel programming
• 8 knobs, 3 dedicated transport controls, 5 navigation buttonsTen memory locations for saving your custom settings
• Dedicated pitch bend, modulation, and sustain performance buttons
• Octave / Transpose buttons provide access to the entire note range
• Includes Ignite music creation software
• Includes Pro Tools | First
• Class-compliant with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X
• Includes 2GB (500+ sample) cutting-edge sound library from leading content developer Touch Loops.

NEW Includes 2GB Sound Library of In-Demand Sound Content From Touch Loops

Spark that initial idea or add the finishing touch to your latest masterpiece – whatever your production needs, Touch Loops' 2GB sample library doesn't disappoint! Based in Los Angeles and London, Touch Loops equips customers with the most cutting-edge sound elements, instruments, hardware, and software recordings, expertly curated by a team of professional music producers and sound designers. Now included with M-Audio Axiom Air Mini 32, this 500+ sound library provides everything from must-have one shot drum hits to sultry melodic loops and deep, driving bass - whatever your project demands, this expertly curated sample content arms you with cutting-edge content to realise it!

NEW Includes Pro Tools First

First isn't a stripped-down application. It's based on the same music creation and audio production tools that award-winning artists, musicians, producers, engineers, and mixers rely on every day. All built on the rock-solid, great-sounding Pro Tools audio engine. Over 70% of all commercial music is produced using Pro Tools.

Pro Tools | First opens the door to a career in professional music production. Start learning the essential workflows required to succeed in the industry.

Direct Control - VIP Software

The Axiom Air Mini 32 and VIP software work together to give you even deeper access to sorting and manipulating your VST virtual instrument and FX plugin library. An integrated patch browser presents every patch for every VST plugin you have, and lets you to quickly filter, select and preview patches based on their specific attributes. You can layer patches together (from up to 8 different VST plugins) to create new patches and timbres. You can also create setlists that provide instant on-demand access to your instruments for stage performance and studio work.

VIP Features:

• Plays virtually every VST compatible plugin
• Operates as a standalone virtual instrument player for your computer
• Also operates as a plugin within any AU, VST, or AAX compatible DAW
• Organizes your plugin collection with intuitive browsing by plugin, artist collection instrument type, timbre and more
• Access, edit, and mix up to 8 virtual instruments at one time
• Setlist feature lets live performers switch between patches from any plugin instantly from the keyboard
• Etensive key zone splitting, custom mapping, and instrument mixing options
• Pre-mapped to hundreds of industry-leading virtual insturments
• Unlimited instances of VIP may be run in a DAW
• Includes 2GB (500+ sample) cutting-edge sound library from leading content developer Touch Loops.
• Includes Pro Tools | First
• NEW VIP 3.0 Update

As of September 2017, Akai have announced the release of VIP3.0!  This latest update of their critically acclaimed VIP software is even more efficient, and is now available on a wider-range of controllers than ever before!

All new features within VIP 3.0 include the following:

• VIPMS (VIP Native Plugin Map Standard) - 3rd party VST and Effect developers can now develop their own personal plugin maps, allowing for enhanced and seamless intergration with VIP, fully opening these plugins to VIP's superior workflow
• MIDI Learn - allows you to seamlessly map your MIDI controller's hardware controls to specific parameters within the software, enabling instant access and more efficient levels of creativity - this feature makes especially good use of the extensive libraries for MIDI controller mappings on both Akai Professional and M-Audio keyboards. 
• Pad Chord Progressions - using a VIP-enabled keyboard controller's pads, you can now easily play preset chord progressions
• Key Control modes - these allow you to play scales, harmonised chords or even chord progressions from your VIP keyboard