The footprint of all my studio gear has become overwhelming, so I finally decided to sell off some of my hardware synths and outboard gear to make room in my home studio space. As I was considering what to keep and what to sell, I realized that one of my favorites pieces of gear that has a reasonable footprint is the M-Audio Axiom Pro 61 keyboard controller. It’s a really cool controller that has a slick proprietary MIDI mapping technology called “HyperControl”. HyperControl automatically maps the keyboard’s 65 controls to commonly accessed parameters in digital audio workstations including Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic and Reason, as well as software instruments.

The end result is that that the Axiom Pro 61 serves as both a MIDI controller AND a Control Surface. The good news is it sells at a fraction of the price of buying both.

You can control all plug-in parameters, Virtual Synths, volumes, and panning.

One cool application I have used if for is as a keyboard player in a band. I played backing tracks and virtual instruments on stage at the same time.

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