Since the dawn of controllerism one company has been at the forefront of the movement in one way or another -Novation. Today Novation has me swooning over the reveal of the new Launchkey Mini. It’s a compact addition to their Launchkey line of keyboard controllers. It features 16 velocity sensitive launch pads, a 25-note keyboard, eight assignable rotary controls, seven function buttons, and two more performance buttons.

Launchkey Mini will retail for a street price of $99 (USD) and will ship with Ableton Live Lite, a Loopmasters sample pack, the Launchkey and Launchpad iPad apps, and software versions of Novation’s classic analogue synths, the Bass Station and the V-Station.