ZeRO SL Mk II has been designed to give you complete control over your music making software. We have worked with each of the major DAWs to make sure each of the 56 knobs, faders and buttons control the things in your software that you need them to control. However, the really clever bit is that SL MkII can directly control your plug-in instruments and FX. The control surface is almost identical to the SL MkII keyboards, but it has longer throw faders (60mm) and a central crossfader. Lightweight and bus powered, it is a firm favourite with performers.

Key Features

• 8 longer-throw faders (60mm), 8 pots, 8 encoders, 32 buttons and a crossfader give you full control of your DAW and plug-ins
• Brightly lit LED rings around the eight smooth encoders, and backlit buttons provide instant visual feedback
• Long LCD screen is large enough to show the name and value of entire rows of knobs, faders or buttons, instantly displaying what each control is assigned to
• Touch any knob or fader and all information (name and value of whatever it is controlling) will appear on the LCD screen above it
• SL Mk II comes with Automap software which enables you to instantly map software parameters to faders, buttons, knobs (encoders and pots) and other controllers. Find out more about Automap here
• Ableton Live Lite, Novation's Bass Station synth and a Loopmasters sample pack are all included with the SL MkII
• SL MkII can be USB powered, with expression and sustain pedal inputs as well as MIDI in and out ports for connecting external MIDI instruments

Powerful DAW/plug-in control surface

ZeRO SL MkII has 8 faders, 8 encoders, 8 pots, 32 assignable buttons and a crossfader. Even the 8 triggerpads can be re-assigned. You can switch 6 of the buttons into transport mode allowing you to play, stop, record and loop as well as navigate backwards and forwards in your session.

Automap 4 control software: Spend more time making music, less time reading user guides

Many MIDI controllers have knobs, faders and buttons, but using them is difficult and time consuming!

SL MkII (as with all Novation controllers) comes with Automap control software. This gives you instant mapping to the things you need to control, meaning you can make full use of faders, knobs and buttons on SL MkII to get hands-on with your DAW and plug-ins.

144-character LCD: Large screen shows exactly what you are controlling

SL MkII's massive LCD screen displays information about what each knob, button and fader is controlling. It is large enough to show the name and value of entire rows of knobs, faders or buttons, instantly displaying what each control is assigned to. The screen lines up with controls so you can identify what control is assigned to which bit of your software without having to look at the software GUI.

Intelligent Controls: Back lit, LED-ringed, touch-sensitive controls

Illuminated controls provide feedback information about what controls are doing. For example LED rings around encoders tell you the position of your filter cutoff, and back-lit buttons will indicate whether a track is muted or not.

Each pot, encoder and fader is touch sensitive so by simply touching the control you can bring up information about that entire row of faders on the LCD screen without having to move the control and lose your settings.

Works with all major DAWs and plug-in instruments and effects

We have worked with major music software manufacturers to ensure SL MkII gives you instant hands-on control. In addition to the major DAWs, SL MkII & Automap 4 have been specially designed to give you full control of 3rd party plug-in instruments and effects, like Native Instruments, UAD or FXpansion.

• Ableton
• Mixer control
• Transport control
• Scene launch
• Control included Plug-ins
• Control 3rd party Plug-ins

• Cubase/Nuendo
• Mixer control
• Transport control
• Control included Plug-ins
• Control 3rd party Plug-ins

• Logic
• Mixer control
• Transport control
• Control included Plug-ins
• Control 3rd party Plug-ins

• Pro Tools
• Mixer control
• Transport control
• Control included Plug-ins
• Control 3rd party Plug-ins

• Digital Performer
• Mixer control
• Transport control
• Control 3rd party Plug-ins

• Reaper
• Mixer control
• Transport control
• Control 3rd party Plug-ins

• Reason/Record
• Mixer control
• Transport control
• Control included Plug-ins
• Control 3rd party Plug-ins

• Sonar
• Mixer control
• Transport control
• Control included Plug-ins
• Control 3rd party Plug-ins

• Studio One
• Mixer control
• Transport control
• Control 3rd party Plug-ins

ZeRO also comes with a stack of free software and sounds:

• Ableton Live Lite - powerful loop based music-making software
• Novation Bass Station - legendary analogue bass synth as a software plug-in
• Loopmasters sample library - over 1GB of royalty-free samples
• Mike The Drummer - 502MB of live drum loops and breaks