Viva Mini is a small keyboard with 37 keys, particularly suited to children and beginners, while also working well as a compact, portable stand-alone keyboard and MIDI keyboard. It has built-in speakers and a headphone output, so it can be played both loudly and silently. It is simple and user-friendly in design, and packed with sounds, rhythms and songs.
Viva Mini has 37 mini keys and built-in functions that make it an excellent tool for children and beginners with small hands. It has a very simple and intuitive layout, so you can quickly learn to make use of all its functions – something that can be crucial for beginners and children.
The keyboard has 100 built-in sounds that realistically reproduce a wide range of instruments and are easy to switch between. Viva Mini also has a built-in accompaniment function, allowing you to control a whole orchestra with your left hand, selected from the 100 built-in rhythms. For example, if you choose one of the rock rhythms, your left hand will control a classic rock band with genre-appropriate instruments.
The orchestra follows the key or chord you play with your left hand, while your right hand can play the melody using one of the keyboard's 100 sounds – such as an electric guitar or a rich Hammond organ sound. This means you can play music even before you have properly learned to play the keyboard, helping to motivate beginners to play more. If you choose a rhythm from another genre, you get an orchestra playing the instruments that characterise that particular style.
Viva Mini also has a built-in learning function that can teach you to play the 30 built-in songs. These songs are well-known evergreens that most people will recognise. The learning function guides you simply through various exercises, and eventually you can play both the right- and left-hand parts of each song.
Viva Mini can do much more than serve as a child- and beginner-friendly keyboard. It also has built-in MIDI via a USB port, meaning you can use it in a home studio as a controller for the sounds in your DAW/music software. Viva Mini can also run on batteries, so you can play anywhere without depending on a mains socket. As it is ultra-compact and easy to carry under your arm, you can easily take it to the rehearsal room, holiday cottage, caravan, or to a friend or teacher.
