 To celebrate creative source reaching 100,000 subscribers, I've reached out to some of my favourite partners so that we can say thank you to you for all of your amazing support. For 7 days in a row I'll be launching giveaways for a total of 24 prizes worth over $6,000 so that you can get the chance to have your hands on some great studio gear and software. Each video also has a bonus secret code inside for you to get extra entries so make sure you watch the whole thing. Today's prizes come from Arturia. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. Welcome to the final day of my 7 days of giveaways to celebrate creative source reaching 100,000 subscribers. You know, as I look around my studio and I see all the bits of great gear, there's one piece of gear which really stands out as my absolute favourite. It wasn't given to me, I paid for it with my own money and I don't regret a single penny of it. In fact, I made a video about this product so let's take a look at a clip from that video now. The KeyLab 88 Mark II is no lightweight. As its name suggests it's an 88 key keyboard with full size keys. The size and the fact that it's main casing is metal gives it weight and a sense of solid durability. Whilst the ascetic touches like the wood inlay in general styling are nice, it's the functionality of the hardware design which impresses me. Take for example the nicely styled detachable music stand. There's a handy slot there for when you want to use your tablet and have a charging cable pass through. Then there's the detachable platform to accommodate the laptop on the left, more than just an afterthought for the modern musician. By the way, when attaching and detaching these items, you get a real sense of wonderful build quality. That follows through to things like the metal mod and pitch wheels and the wonderfully rubberised feel to the controls and drum pads. But the real quality of this device is in exactly the place where you want it to be. The keyboard. Now you don't always want a big keyboard. When people ask me about small keyboards I often recommend the Arturia Keystep 37. I always keep it close by for when I want to do some mobile recording and that kind of thing. I made a video about it so let's just take a quick look at a clip from that now. As with all Arturia keyboards I've tried in this series, the 37 velocity sensitive keys with AfterTouch have a wonderfully solid feel and are nicely responsive. The keys each have RGB lights above which also give feedback on notes played in the sequencer, arpeggiator and chord modes. Again, the various switches, knobs and buttons seem rock solid. There's no issue with quality here with an almost industrial feel. On the left hand side we see our pitch and mod wheel touch strips, something I find really natural and organic to use. At the top next to the display we see four knobs for controlling four banks of CC controls, a very welcome addition indeed. These also double up as controls over various aspects of the chord mode. For a small keyboard we have a wonderful array of features on the back panel. DIP switches allow us to change the various clock modes, alongside we have sync and CV connections for those wanting to connect to compatible synths, as well as a pair of traditional MIDI connections. Next to this we have a connection for a sustain pedal and the whole thing can be hooked up to your computer via the USB B connector. There is an option to use DC power but it's not a necessity, for me the keyboard was quite happily powered by both PC and iPad. By the way when you do connect to your computer you may want to try out the complimentary copy of Ableton Live Lite which you get with this keyboard. Now let's see how the various modes operate starting with the sequencer mode. As well as things like keyboards Arturia also make things like audio interfaces and I've been looking at some of those recently. The thing is they never seem to disappoint in terms of quality and I know for a fact that they go to great lengths to listen to the community to see how they can continually improve. Now apart from hardware they also really excel in software, especially when it comes to virtual instruments. Now I tend to favour their kind of vintage keyboards and I've made some videos about that. Let's just take a look at a quick clip now. By way of example what we're looking at here is probably one of the more simple instruments, the Stage 73, updated to version 2 with this collection and I'm sure you'll agree that despite its simple appearance it has a really great sound. Let's have a quick listen. And as you can see here some very simple controls, a bass boost and a volume here and we can also flick this switch here to get a slightly different version where we have a tone control and a volume. But it's when we go to the suitcase version where we get even more variation I'll click on that now. This opens up the suitcase version which has this built in vibrato which some of these instruments originally had. So I'll switch that on, I'll turn the intensity up a little bit so we can hear it quite clearly and we can also adjust the treble and the bass separately now. Let's have a quick listen. Okay so still very simple controls but if we open up the advance tab we have a lot of different features now available to us. Of course we have the velocity curve which you can see here, I think every keyboard instrument should have one of those but it's over on this right hand side where we have the very cool stuff. First of all we can go through some different models. We have the main model selected at the moment, I'm just going to play this again and go through a few of the different models so you can hear the difference. So there's some massive changes in character there. Now we can do the really cool stuff. You could do this stuff in real life but it wasn't very easy, you'd probably have to get your screwdriver out and fit all for hours on end to do what we can do in just a few seconds here because we can play around with the mechanics inside. I'm just going to play around with one of these at the moment, the pickup distance here. Let's have a listen and you can hear what an enormous difference it makes to the sound. I love that really gritty sound. Okay so there's lots to look at there, lots to play with. Now the other thing that we can do is add some effects. I'll go to the effects section here. We've got four slots for guitar type pedals and typically we might put something like a phaser on this. I'll do that now. Let's have a listen. In fact I might go for a chorus. Oh yeah I love that, I don't need to change anything there. Now the other thing of course you would do is plug it into an amplifier and we've got a couple to choose from here. I'll just switch them on. We've got the twin amp here and also a rotary style speaker as well. I'm going to go for the twin amp. I'm just going to leave it at its default setting and see what difference is made to the sound. Yeah absolutely loving that. Now what I'm going to do is just turn down the reverb on this. This amplifier had a built in reverb. I'm just going to get rid of that so we can have a quick listen to the reverbs which you get with this plugin. I'll switch them on. You get all kinds of different ones. A plate one is selected here. There's a spring reverb there and we've got an acoustic concert hall there, a home studio. Lots to choose from there. I'm going to go for the plate reverb. Let's have a listen to this. So this is but one simple example of the depth to which Arturia go with these instruments. They also add details which reveal functions not present in the original instruments. So let's take a look at an example of that neck. Now I've mentioned several times before in the past that I really do adore Arturia's effects collection and some of the plugins in it always find their way into my productions recently. That includes their preamps. I absolutely love their dynamics processes and they actually have in their collection my favorite reverb plugin. Take that out in the links in the description down below but let's talk about the prizes. Arturia have donated three prizes for this giveaway with a combined value of almost $1,200. Those three prizes are V Collection 8, FX Collection 2 and they're also a software synth Pigments 3. Now let's talk about the things that you don't have to do to enter for this giveaway. So trying to this giveaway you definitely don't have to subscribe to this channel or like this video or indeed leave any comments down below. However if you do think this channel may be useful to you in the future then you could subscribe and ring the bell to make sure you get notified about any other episodes I produce. Also if you'd just like to let me know why you're excited about winning one of these prizes then I'd love to hear from you in the comments down below. And if you just want to say thanks hit the like button. As I say you don't have to but you could if you want hey. Now let's talk about how you do enter for this giveaway. To enter this giveaway just go to homestudiogiveaway.com slash Arturia or follow the link in the description down below. When you get there you're going to find there's several different ways that you can enter and you can enter several different times to increase your chances. I look forward to seeing your entries there. A massive thank you to Arturia for donating these great prizes and an even more massive thank you to all of the people who helped me reach 100,000 subscribers. Thank you so much for joining me in this giveaway and I look forward to seeing you with the winners announcement.