USB MIDI Keytar Controller with Accelerometer by Alesis

Alesis Vortex gives you the freedom to move around the stage and take the lead. Alesis Vortex removes the barrier between you and your audience with this portable keyboard controller. Vortex features an extensive layout of touch-sensitive keys and velocity-sensitive pads on a pearlescent white body, featuring radical pitch and modulation controls on its neck. Vortex empowers you to rule the stage.

The Vortex is the first keytar to include a MIDI-assignable accelerometer. Now, you can get out from behind your keyboard stand and be just as visual as guitarists and singers with an instrument that will respond to your motion. You’ll be able to create incredible volume swells, amazing pitch bends, vibratos, filter cutoffs and more by tilting the Vortex’s neck in the heat of the moment during live performances.

The Vortex includes even more features never before found on any keytar: both traditional MIDI and USB MIDI are onboard, empowering you to use the Vortex with all of your software instruments and synths on Mac and PC. You'll have a virtually unlimited palette of sounds, ready to command with one of the most exciting keytar controllers ever. The Vortex comes ready for instant performance, automapped for today’s most popular software synths and DAWs. Plus, you can customize and create your own mappings for virtually any MIDI software.

Alesis Vortex Features:

• 8 natural feeling, velocity-sensitive drum pads with Dynamic Articulation
• Built-in professional drum machine so you can record and play back your own beats
• Over 500 sounds ranging from all styles and instruments assignable to any pad
• Large LCD display with easy-to-navigate interface with a lightweight, durable enclosure
• High-quality, 24-bit audio outputs and traditional 5-pin MIDI output jack
• Mix input for external tracks, loops, and instruments