Alesis Vortex Wireless II LE Red

Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 Red Limited Edition MIDI Keytar.

The Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 is a USB/MIDI and Wireless shoulder keyboard featuring an updated MIDI control section, optimized for live performances 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 MIDI controller connects wirelessly to any PC or Mac computer via a USB stick receiver/transmitter and integrates perfectly with any virtual instrument, plug-in, and DAW software.

The MIDI controls on the surface of the Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 include a 37-key keyboard (3 octaves, with transpose capable of covering up to 10 octaves) sensitive to velocity and aftertouch, 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 upon selection from the dedicated button (1, 3, and 3), an accelerometer sensor that recognizes up-down movements to translate them into a freely assignable MIDI control message by the user, zone buttons, sustain, and dedicated octave transpose keys. The accelerometer can 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 equipped 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 equipped with a MIDI IN port. For MIDI DIN and wireless connection, the Vortex Wireless 2 is powered by 4 AA batteries (not included in the package, but available for purchase separately). When connected via USB cable, the computer will directly power the keytar.

Included with the Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 are a standard guitar strap and a USB cable. Regarding the rich software package, 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 MIDI messages transmittable by the various physical controls, as well as the creation, saving, and loading of 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 Red LE Features:

• • Red Limited Edition

• • 3-octave shoulder keyboard

• • 37 velocity-sensitive keys with aftertouch

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

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

• • 8 velocity-sensitive RGB backlit pads

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

• • Assignable, calibratable, and deactivatable MIDI accelerometer as needed

• • Volume slider 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

• • Can be 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, which entitles you to a discount on the purchase of the full version)

 To download the accompanying software:

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 your account's dedicated page: 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 music hardware compatible with the universal MIDI standard. They do not have internal sounds and function by sending control messages only when connected to a sound generator: virtual or physical. The software provided via download is offered free of charge and does not include 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.

NB: The use of authorization codes, i.e., the download and activation of the free software provided, waives 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 physical interventions under warranty, contact: https://www.masterservice.tk/rma.php