127th AES Convention Coverage (New York, NY Oct. 9-12)

Winter NAMM 2008 Coverage

Anaheim Convention Center--Anaheim, CA: January 17-20

PRESS RELEASE

ESI Shipping The K.ON Expandable Controller

January 14, 2008

The K.ON expandable controller will be displayed the 2008 NAMM show, at the ESI booth #6832.

Equipped with a stable aluminum cabinet, K.ON is not only stylish, but perfectly optimized for professional usage live on stage or in any studio environment. Various faders and dials as controllers are provided, allowing remote control of software and hardware synthesizers. K.ON has with 88 hammer action keys and a total of 4 expansion slots, compatible with existing synthesizer modules from other vendors and with forthcoming expansions from ESI. One of the expansion slots is occupied by the standard I/O board featuring support to bus-power the keyboard via USB and making it compatible with all current Windows versions (incl. Vista 32- and 64-bit) as well as Mac OS X (incl. Leopard).

  • 3 digit LED display
  • 9 endles dials
  • 9 faders
  • modulation wheel/pitch bend
  • numeric keypad
  • transport control buttons
  • varios editing functions for programming
  • power supplied via USB or optional external power supply
  • expandable via 4 expansion slots on backside
  • Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Mac OS X 10.3 (and higher) compatible
  • bundled with Steinberg Cubase LE 4.0 for PC and Mac
K.ON is bundled with Cubase LE 4.0 from Steinberg and has a MSRP of €599.

ESI is starting shipment of the new K.ON controller keyboard to in Europe the week of the 2008 NAMM show. Availability in North America will follow within a month.

 

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For more information, visit their web site at http://www.esi-audio.com/.

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