Arturia AstroLab 88

The AstroLab with a hammer-action keybed — the full stage-piano format carrying the entire V Collection and Analog Lab library in hardware. The pianos finally sit under piano action, and everything else in the library comes along.

This is the board for the player whose set is half piano, half everything else: real weight for the ballad, a vintage poly patch two clicks later, all browsed from the same screen and wheel as the smaller AstroLabs.

It weighs what hammer-action boards weigh, so plan the transport. And as with every AstroLab, deep patch editing happens in Analog Lab on a computer — the 88 is the performing end of that workflow.