a musical extension of your soul
Play
Produce
Perform
The Kadabra® Music Workstation is a handheld stage-ready Multi-instrument & Motion based Midi controller
Play Kadabra.
Hands on, to stay in the creative zone
- Independent Music Workstation – allows you to play anywhere
Two Keyboards, with tonal & harmonic adaptive modes – Controlled by expressive 9D Motion sensors.
Built-in-Looper & Sequencer – to create, manipulate, and layer up to 16 sound channels, turning the session into musical storytelling.
All features are hands on, built to keep you in the flow.
Music Production.
Immediate Inspiration, Efficient Workflow
Smooth hardware-software integration to any other DAW
Kadabra OS Software linked to your DAW, for quick and efficient parameters control and triggering
Sound Infusion – multiple VST channels infused to create a multi-layered dynamic sound texture, giving your sound-design an original depth that can be manipulated live, using the 9D motion controls.
Intuitive Controls, Immediate Inspiration – that reduces technical friction to stay focused and in your muse
Perform. Master the stage
A portable music workstation designed for performers
Effortless, minimal gear setup – Power on and start you show.
100% Front stage – with pro-grade wireless radio, long-lasting battery and even your FX rack is with you, no mouse, no screen, no feedback.
Performance-Ready Workflow – Built for hands-on intuitive control and real-time 9D motion expression.
The Master Shape: Assign everything to “Power Buttons” for flawless flexibility.
Mesmerizing Visual Feedback impact: Connect with your audience through an instrument that looks as good as it sounds!
KEY FEATURES
Seamless integration with your existing setup
The Kadabra® music workstation adapts to your workflows, enabling you to work with your existing setup. Serving as a midi controller, it can sync and control any DAW, virtual instrument or plugin. With over 40 knobs per channel, and virtual midi wiring capability, it provides you with full control over all the elements in your studio. Just plug & play.
A Portable Studio Music Workstation
Buying a The Kadabra® music workstation gives you free access to download all of our Samplers, and our VST/AU KPlayer for playing without any extra software.
- Electronic Drumset
- Accoustic Drums
- Percussions
- Grand Piano
- Electric Piano
Kadabra is not only a smart midi controller 😉
Expressive
The Kadabra® music workstation has 2 separate button-like sensors that luminates at the intensity of your thumb pressure, and offers contolrs for velocity, pitchbend, volume and other smooth adjustment for a broader scope of expression, 1 is sticky, for determin a static amount, and 1 is dynamic for changing values that should return to 0 when released.
Hyper-Expressive
The Kadabra® music workstation’s motion sensors offer a broader scope of expression, allowing for adjustments on up to 10 “knobs” simultaneously (9 motion axis and 1 pressure sensor), much more than the usual 2 knobs movement (using 2 hands) to be adjusted simultaneously. This, combined with the intuitive full-body engagement that is deeply connected to the sound, provides an unparalleled range of expression.
Never out of tune, always on the beat
Whether in the studio or on stage, easily set your tone and scale, and start jamming on any instrument you like, adding layers and expression to your music. The Kadabra® music workstation will automatically make sure that you are always in sync and on key. In addition to its unique Sequencer and Arper modes, which naturally synchronize, a Quantizer mode makes sure that everything you play live remains rhythmically in sync, always landing precisely on the beat.
2 separate keyboards on a single device
Play 2 sounds simultaneously using the instrument’s bar and ball rows of keyboards. The Kadabra® music workstation’s adaptive design enables musicians to seamlessly assign multiple virtual instruments to each row, and infuse their sounds during playing while staying in perfect sync with the key and scale.
Extensive toolkit for music production
Easily set up your desired scale and harmony, and enrich your sound with an extensive pallet of production functions like Viber, Arper, Looper, FXer and more, all easily accessible, arranged and controlled directly from your Kadabra®. Having a Kadabra® music workstation in you studio, speeds up and ignites the composition step and the whole rhythm section, you can also export and import Midi sections from its Looper into your DAWs song’s arrangement.
MORE FEATURES
Wireless & Battery
With a military-grade pro radio for solid large stage performances and into the crowd, a rapid charging battery that lasts for over 8 hours of playing, a totally independent interface (you don’t have to look at the screen), and a wireless microphone installment setup, the Kadabra™ MW ushers in new performing arts experiences.
Cut the chords
Cut the Chords
The Kadabra® music workstation comes with all the software you need to start playing, including the Kadabra-Player dedicated K-Samplers for beat making, the versatile “Surge XT” open-source virtual synth and effects, and a few ready-made projects to play and jam preset songs. Coupled with Kadabra® music workstation’s unique control mechanisms, musicians are provided with limitless performance capabilities including switching to relevant scales (e.g., blues, pentatonic and others), or changing the entire scale and key of the song. Kadabra® will magically switch to the new scale and key.
Accelerate your learning
Accelerate your learning
Upon installing the Kadabra music workstation’s software, a comprehensive set of interactive tutorials will guide you step by step to understanding how the instrument operates. The “Show Tips” function is available for every button. Just hover with your mouse and a window will pop up to explain the functionality of the feature. Then, a set of tutorials will introduce you to more advanced features. and last, Ask AI, any question, let Tribal-Tools Artificial Intelligence go through the manual and fetch you the answer you are looking for. The software is consistently updated for free update downloads, and new tutorials are uploaded as an ongoing basis.
The Master Shape
The Master shape
All the capabilities of the Kadabra™ music workstation can be combined to a single control surface, a palette of functions customized by the user for any specific project, so you can take your DAW project as-is and play it Live!
Inspiring design
Inspiring design
Each Tribal-Tools Kadabra™ MW is a hand crafted wooden instrument, design to be beautiful, sturdy, robust, ergonomic and natural to the touch, one-of-a-kind piece that is only yours!
simple installation:
Install Kadabra OS
on purchase you'll get an email with instruction on how to download and install the software, for MAC or WIN
Connect your Kadabra
connect the included USB cable to your computer and your new Kadabra or its wireless KBox
Start playing!
Kadabra OS opens a dedicated DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), filled with Samplers and synths, ready to play.
Minimum Requirements
Windows
- Windows 10 (Build 1909 and later), Windows 11
- Approximately 2 GB system drive space for the Full installation (8 GB free disk space recommended for new K-Samplers and updates)
- 8 GB RAM
- Intel® Core™ i5 processor or an AMD multi-core processor
- ASIO-compatible audio hardware for (recommended for optimal audio performance)
Mac OS
- macOS 11 Big Sur
- 2 GB Drive space for the Full installation (8 GB free disk space recommended for new K-Samplers and updates)
- 8 GB RAM
- Apple Silicon M1 or Intel® Core™ i5 processor
- Core Audio compliant audio interface recommended
KadabraPractical info
We’re not just making Kadabras, we’re giving birth to each one of them separatally, each piece is unique, each hand crafted all the way till the quality control tests before leaving the “factory”.
there are several different wood types to choose from:
- Butcher Beech – a sturdy, clean, machinable wood. easier to work with so usualy cheaper.
- Butcher Mahogany – hard and dark, also easy to machine but harder to finnish and more expensive.
- Butcher Cherry – soft and light weight, can receive dents when hits, but so beutiful and easy to use. (significantly lighter)
- Lami Oak – extremely hard, almost undentable, beutiful but heavier wood, hard to work on thus more expensive.
- Limba (African Walnut) – beutiful, hard to machine, expensive, but sooooo beutiful!
- other types are in the shop occassionaly, like Maple, Cider and even Pine…
Right after paying for a Kadabra music workstation, you’ll receive an email from us with your personal user area access, so you’ll be able to download the latest Kadabra bundle.
Kadabra bundle has the same features both for Mac and Windows, it comes with an easy installation of KadabraOS, Kadabra Player, Kadabra Virtual Midi, Kadabra Samplers (by Tribal-Tools and IMI), the Surge XT virtual synth, and other presets to jump-start your experience.
your beautiful Kadabra will be shipped to your address or however you decided to receive it. Kadabra comes in a cardboard box that has wooden sides holding a long carrying strap, locks and a handle. inside the box are USB typeA-to-typeC cables, the K-Box (the wireless communication to USB piece), a strap (if not already attached), and of course… Your Kadabra 🙂
Buying a Tribal-Tools’ Kadabra WM, gives you full physical (mechanical and electronic) support through Tribal-Tools labs (contact us).
Any Kadabra instrument made by an Original Kadabra Manifestor (like IMI), entitles you digital support by Tribal-Tools, concerning KadabraOS, Kadabra Player, KAI (Kadabra AI), some of the K-Samplers, Kadabra’s virtual Midi port and other Tribal-Tools software elements.