Alesis VORTEX WIRELESS 2

ALESIS VORTEX WIRELESS 2

Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 is a USB/MIDI and wireless keytar controller featuring an updated MIDI control section, optimized for live performance to ensure greater comfort and playability ergonomics, accompanied by a suite of virtual instrument software to provide keyboardists, live performers, and DJs with a complete solution. This keytar-format MIDI controller connects wirelessly to any PC or Mac computer via a USB receiver/transmitter dongle and integrates perfectly with any virtual instrument, plugin, and DAW software.

The MIDI controls on the surface of the Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 include a 37-key (3 octaves, with transpose capable of covering up to 10 octaves) velocity and aftertouch-sensitive keyboard, 8 backlit pads (RGB) for controlling clips, samples, or percussion, 8 faders with backlit guides for controlling parameters such as volume, filter, or anything else controllable by MIDI Control Change messages, a touch strip with 3 different CC messages reproducible by selecting them with the dedicated button (1, 3, and 3), an accelerometer sensor that recognizes up-down movements and translates them into a freely assignable MIDI control message, zone buttons, sustain, and dedicated octave transpose buttons. The accelerometer can optionally be disabled by the user using the "Tilt" button and has a calibration procedure useful for adapting it to different performance modes. Also available are a spring-loaded wheel for pitch bend control and a fader pre-assigned to CC 7, both further configurable as needed within the editor software.

Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 guarantees the performer maximum connection freedom: wireless, by connecting the included USB receiver to the computer (PC or Mac) or to interfaces and instruments with a "Type A" USB port (Host), or wired by connecting it via USB or with a traditional MIDI cable to any computer, iOS device, or MIDI instrument with a MIDI IN port. For MIDI DIN and wireless connections, the Vortex Wireless 2 is powered by 4 AA batteries (not included, but available separately). For USB wired connections, the computer will directly power the keytar.

Included with the Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 is a standard guitar strap and a USB cable. As for the rich software suite, which the user must download from their reserved area on the Alesis website once the product is registered, it includes the Vortex Wireless 2 Editor, which allows for simplified configuration of the MIDI messages transmissible by the various physical controls, thus creating, saving, and loading presets, and the following virtual instruments: Hybrid 3, Loom 2, Vacuum Pro, and Xpand!2 produced by AIR Music Tech, TimewARP 2600 by Way Out Ware, and a Lite version of the music production and live performance software Ableton Live.

Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 Features:

• • 3-octave keytar keyboard

• • 37 velocity-sensitive keys with aftertouch

• • Up to 10 octaves covered: "+" and "-" buttons

• • LCD display with 3 alphanumeric 7-segment characters (parameters, values, etc.)

• • 8 RGB velocity-sensitive backlit pads

• • 8 faders with backlit guides for transmitting MIDI Control Change

• • Assignable, calibratable, and optionally deactivatable MIDI accelerometer

• • Slider for volume control and pitch wheel on the neck

• • Assignable MIDI touchstrip: up to 3 reproducible MIDI CCs

• • "Zone" and "Sustain" buttons

• • USB receiver included for wireless connection to Mac or PC

• • USB "B" and MIDI OUT DIN format connections

• • Battery powered (4 AA: not included) for MIDI or Wireless use

• • Cables and strap included

• • Dimensions and weight: 89.4x25.4x7.4cm; 2.9KG 

Software available via Download*

• • Vortex Wireless 2 Editor for MIDI message configuration

• • Virtual instruments: Hybrid 3, Loom 2, Vacuum Pro, and Xpand!2 by AIR Music Tech; TimewARP 2600 by Way Out Ware.

• • Ableton Live Lite (limited version of Live software, entitling a discount on the purchase of the full version)

 For software download:

1. 1. Create an account on the Alesis website: http://www.alesis.com/account/create

1. 1. Register the product: http://www.alesis.com/account/register-product

1. 1. Access download links and codes from the dedicated page in your account: http://www.alesis.com/account/products

 *IMPORTANT:

Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 is a MIDI controller that generates and sends MIDI messages useful for controlling software, applications, or musical hardware compatible with the universal MIDI standard. It does not have internal sounds and functions by sending control messages only when connected to a sound generator: virtual or physical. The software provided via download is free of charge and does not have technical or commercial support. Alesis and EKO MUSIC GROUP are solely responsible for the hardware instrument (keyboard) they produce and distribute and cannot provide technical support for the use of third-party products.

Note: The use of authorization codes, i.e., the download and activation of the freely provided software, voids the right of withdrawal as per Art. 59, point "o" of the Consumer Code.

For technical support: create a ticket from your user area: https://www.ekomusicgroup.com/it/login

For repairs, spare parts, and in-warranty physical interventions, contact: https://www.masterservice.tk/rma.php