Arturia MiniLab 3 Review - Pros & Cons + Ableton Integration

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Today I’m reviewing the Arturia Minilab 3 which brings a number of improvements over its predecessor and retains the excellent build quality while being remarkably lightweight. Overall its great design and good key feel and size make it a good option if you’re looking for a mini keyboard controller with 25 keys.

0:00 Intro
0:30 Overview, build quality, key and pad feel
2:45 Integration with Ableton Live and Analog Lab
7:45 Pros & Cons

[piggosalternateaccount]

This review decided my purchase, thank you very much

[franksilval]

This is the next step in music production
I'm getting my one

[CeltaBanks]

I changed my komplete kontrol m32 for this one and I'm not disappointed, it's very great for ableton !
thanks for the video, peace !

[spleaf]

Best review I’ve seen, still not understanding why the pads only access the bottom 8 in Ableton drum rack when there’s 2 banks of 8

[illwafer]

i don't know why someone doesn't make a $30 usb pitch/mod wheel combo to complement controllers with touch strips or none at all. spring loaded pitch is so much more expressive than touch, and accidentally touching the mod strip can be a big bummer.

[theopacalypse]

I don't know how to play the keyboard but i love how you played the lead, how long will it take me to play like that?

[frezajoe]

great explanation. how does it work with drum rack? is it possible to controller parameters of each pads on the drum rack??

[Beats_and_Shades]

Question… if i turn the master bass of a preset completely down to -10 dB does that cut out all of the low frequencies or are they just not hearable anymore ? Sorry I’m a newb and would appreciate some help on this many thanks 🙏

[IONUUUUU]

Sir novation launch key mini mk3 or aturia minilab mk3

[CrisCozy]

Do the pads work with Maschine Software?

[OlaOla-soil]

this is one of the best reveiws I've seen about this keyboard! Well done! :)

[beenay]

People on youtube told me, minilab can be used directly connected to computer. Boy oh boy it was wrong. I connected minilab to my gaming computer. The latency is so high, it could not be used to play real music. Do am going to need aidiointerface now.

[theopacalypse]

Great review, got the minilab 2, wondering if i'll need this, want the black version though.

[shreepadgandhi]

This was one of the best reviews of minilab3...really appreciate your way of explaining. I bought this last month. This is my first MIDI controller. I felt the keys too hard and felt challenging to play fast tempo melodies. Secondly, am getting a feeling, 25 keys aren't something I would look forward again to buy. Though the octave keys serve the purposes of moving right and left on the octaves this mode of using the lower octave and higher octave is not that comfortable. Does Arturia keys are this hard for their other models too (I mean the 49, 61 keys etc.)? Need to look for other brands in that case. Loved the build quality etc. Well. Thanks again from Pune city, INDIA.

[btsndcts]

Arturia's software centre in a nightmare, their online help is a joke and they're the only company in the world that doesn't have a complaint process. I wonder why? Because they sell junk.