Pro Playability and Mobile Convenience
The Roland A-49 MIDI keyboard controller gives you pro playability and mobile convenience. The A-49 features a high-quality, velocity-sensitive synth-action keyboard in a trim, roadworthy package that weighs in at under six pounds, and offers USB and iPad compatibility, as well as onboard control of Roland SuperNATURAL-powered synths. You get robust performance control, with assignable knobs and switches, octave and transpose buttons, sustain and expression pedal inputs, and Roland’s way-cool bend/mod lever and D-BEAM controller. If you need a compact controller, the Roland A-49 belongs on your short list.
- All you could want in a compact controller
- Control your SuperNATURAL synths directly
- Compatible with three operating systems
All you could want in a compact controller
Roland is back at it, flexing its considerable keyboard design mojo with the A-49 MIDI controller. This ‘board gives you everything you could want in a compact controller: a great-feeling keybed, assignable knobs and switches, octave and transpose buttons, sustain and expression pedal inputs, Roland’s slick bend/mod lever and even their insanely cool D-BEAM controller.
Control your SuperNATURAL synths directly
The A-49 sports a dedicated SuperNATURAL mode button that unlocks a bevy of sound-selection features when hooked up to a Roland SuperNATURAL instrument such as the INTEGRA-7 sound module or the JUPITER-80 and JUPITER-50 synths. It’s like they were made for each other.
Compatible with three operating systems
The Roland A-49 is three-OS compatible. That’s right. You get compatibility with the Mac, as well as iOS apps on the iPad (via the optional Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit). The A-49 comes bundled with Ableton Live Lite software, for straight-out-of-the-box music production.
- High-quality, velocity-sensitive synth-action keyboard
- Keys have a rounded shape for a comfortable touch
- Technical enhancements to reduce keybed noise and increase playability
- Roland’s bend/mod lever and D-BEAM controller
- Assignable knobs and switches
- Octave and transpose buttons
- Sustain and expression pedal inputs
- Mac and Windows compatible
- iOS music app compatibility on the iPad (via optional Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit)
Tech Specs
- Type: Keyboard Controller
- Number of Keys:49
- Type of Keys: Synth Action
- Velocity Sensitive: Yes
- Pads:4
- Other Controllers: Pitchbend/Mod Lever, D-Beam
- Encoders/Pots:2
- Pedal Inputs:1 x 1/4″ (sustain), 1 x 1/4″ (expression)
- MIDI I/O: Out
- USB:1 x Type B
- Computer Connectivity: USB
- Software: Ableton Live 9 Lite included
- Power Supply: Bus Powered
- Height:3.31″
- Width:32.94″
- Depth:7.19″
- Weight:5.56 lbs.
- Manufacturer Part Number:A-49-BK
